OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
After Torture: Kathy Berger talks about working with torture survivors to make Beneath The Blindfold.
David Ayer
William Bibbiani @ CraveOnline
- Excerpt: Director David Ayer describes the brain-spilling scene he thought was too violent for his ultra-violent WWII movie ‘Fury.’
Dear White People Writer-Director Justin Simien
James Marsden
The Judge Writer-Director David Dobkin
Judy Greer
William Bibbiani @ CraveOnline
- Excerpt: Don’t worry, Judy Greer had trouble sympathizing with her ‘Men, Women and Children’ character too.
Zane, Writer of “Addicted”
Festivals: General Coverage
After the Credits Episode 160: VIFF Dispatch #3 – The Wrap Show
Ottawa International Film Festival Runs Oct. 15-19
- Excerpt: OIFF enters its fifth year and looks to be growing!
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Birdman
- Excerpt: The bulk of Antonio Sanchez’s score is jazz drumming of boisterous power, and the film pulses with that improvisational energy, from the bracing camerawork on down. And the go-go-go style is just right for Keaton’s jittery energy—form is rarely better matched to function.
Christopher Guest on the Real Inspiration Behind ‘This Is Spinal Tap’
Force Majeure
Foxcatcher
- Excerpt: In the back hour, the music quietly turns the screws, and Miller stops letting the air in, and I realized that a knot had formed in my chest — even were it not based on a true story, there’s an inevitability about the destination we seem to be steaming towards.
Highway
How a Legendary William S. Burroughs Documentary Was Lost… and Found 30 Years Later
- Excerpt: The film itself is fascinating, but what happened off-screen is even more remarkable, the story of an important document’s disappearance and rediscovery by a young man dedicated to saving it. That young man is Aaron Brookner, nephew of Burroughs director Howard, who spoke to me recently about the picture’s peculiar journey — and his own.
London Film Festival: Kelly and Cal
- Excerpt: Films presumably about repressed emotions are much too often repressed themselves. It is a half-decent film well acted, but there doesn’t seem to be any real heart in it.
London Film Festival: Oxi: An Act of Resistance
- Excerpt: The film works best as a dialogue between classic Greek literature and the current problems in the world. But it often uses too much artifice to tell a plain and simple truth.
London Film Festival: Still the Water
- Excerpt: It is a warm film, but it feels only surface deep – a film betraying the influence of Malick, Herzog, Kurosawa and Mizoguchi but few ideas of its own.
Maps to the Stars
Mommy
Monsters: Dark Continent
- Excerpt: Four years after Gareth Edwards exploded onto the sci-fi scene with his inventive and industrious indie alien invasion flick Monsters, first-time director Tom Green delivers a sequel that bears little resemblance to the original, in tone, content or invention.
No Concessions: Blood on the Festival Floor
- Excerpt: Reviews from the New York Film Festival
Welcome to Me
The Well
The Womb
Tributes
Elizabeth Peña
Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 10-12, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “The Judge”, “Kill the Messenger”, “St. Vincent” and “Whiplash”
Television
Daktari: The Complete Third Season
- Excerpt: Expertly produced, action-packed (but non-violent) family fare that will appeal best to the smaller small fry.
Doctor Who – The Caretaker
Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: [His] anti-soldier sentiment feels like a prejudice that is being forced on to The Doctor to create conflict with Danny, rather than something which is immanent to his character.
Gilligan’s Planet: The Complete Series
- Excerpt: Filmation’s last Saturday morning network toon didn’t turn out half-bad for fans of the original series.
How the West was Won: The Complete Second Season
- Excerpt: When it tries to “send a message,” it’s barely adequate and completely unoriginal. When it’s trying to tell a long-form, multi-subplot tale of sex and violence in the Old West…it’s barely adequate and completely unoriginal.
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
- Excerpt: Hypnotically creepy, one of the best made-for-TV movies of the 1970s has finally arrived on DVD.
SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob, You’re Fired!
- Excerpt: The toon that caused an uproar is finally on DVD.
Essays
Destroy All Monsters: Box Office Mojo No Go
NYCC: Women Can Like Whichever Movies They Want (And Anyone Who Tells You Otherwise Can F*ck Off)
What Distinguishes the Zombie Genre from Every Other Type of Horror
Reviews of Short Films
But You Are a Dog
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Swedish Animated Short Film Review
Cigano
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
O Avô
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review and one of the Filminute – the international one-minute film festival winners
To Love Somebody
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Documentary Review
Other Articles
Five Horror Shows That Audiences Have All But Forgotten
James Jay Edwards @ iHorror.com
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] Even by modern cinema’s jaded standards, “She Wolf of the SS” remains a powerfully sexy, campy, blood-soaked, and fetishistic tour de force.
The Morning After: Oct. 13, 2014
- Excerpt: Short reviews of “Emma” and “Daylight”
Poppy Fields Movie Couch Of Fame: Jaws
Sarah D Bunting @ Tomato Nation
