OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
Christian Ditter
Christopher Kyle and Susanne Bier
Director, composer and star of “Delicious”
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Após o filme houve um quarto de hora para uma entrevista constantemente interrompida por risos onde se falou de coisas tão díspares como ananases de arremesso e facas afiadas que são apenas itens de amor.
Interview with Rolf de Heer
Philip Concannon @ Phil on Film
Jon Bernthal and Michael Pena
Lily Collins and Sam Claflin
Festivals: General Coverage
CineTrofa
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: O Cinema encontrou uma casa no síto mais improvável.
OIFF 2014: Festival Wrap-up and ‘Best of the Fest’
- Excerpt: Summary of the 2014 Ottawa International Film Festival
Festivals: Individual Reviews
American Descent
- Excerpt: Not even a champion for local content could love this film.
Girlhouse
- Excerpt: Sexy coeds get porked and butchered, and the result ain’t pretty.
In the Turn
- Excerpt: Vagine Regime doc screened at the 2014 Ottawa International Film Festival
London Film Festival: Beti and Amare
- Excerpt: The film sacrifices coherence for strangeness, leaving one wondering what exactly was writer-director Andy Siege trying to say with the film. The film purports to be about the suffering of the most vulnerable, but it loses a certain truth by focusing on oddity.
London Film Festival: The Way He Looks
- Excerpt: The film is not flawless, but it works as a likable and funny indie film about growing up and discovering one’s sexuality. It is an honest and largely non-judgemental depiction of young love and a sensitive portrait of a blind person’s attempts to fit in.
My Father and the Man in Black
- Excerpt: Personable doc about the man behind Johnny Cash.
OIFF Review: Shorts Program 2
- Excerpt: Shorts at the Ottawa International Film Festival include the Oscar winner ‘The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life’
OIFF Review: Shorts Programme 1
- Excerpt: Review of shorts including ‘Wired’, ‘A Mile in These Hooves’, and ‘Market Hours’
OIFF Review: ‘The Lost Key’
- Excerpt: Ultraconservative doc should go back to the 1950s.
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 17-19, 2014
- Excerpt: A look at the Oscar chances of “The Book of Life”, “Fury”, “Birdman”, “Camp X-Ray”, “Dear White People” and “The Tale fo the Princess Kaguya”
Television
24: Live Another Day
Doctor Who – Mummy on the Orient Express
Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: In that moment, Capaldi suggests a wonderful complexity. The Doctor cares incredibly deeply about human life, but that he also has a pragmatism that allows him to do what needs to be done.
The Walking Dead S5 E1 “Strangers”
Brent McKnight @ Giant Freakin’ Robot
- Excerpt: This week’s episode of “The Walking Dead,” ‘Strangers,’ carves off a significant chunk.
Essays
A Televisão do futuro chegou
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A televisão matou o cinema. A televisão online matou tudo o resto.
Do atheist and agnostic filmmakers make the best religious films?
- Excerpt: One of the noblest functions of art is the invitation to empathy: an invitation extended not only to the audience, but also to the artist. Even when conflicting world views divide us, empathy and imagination can bring us closer together.
The Rick-trospective: Dazed and Confused
Brent McKnight @ Paste Magazine
- Excerpt: One of the reasons Dazed and Confused holds up so well over the years is that it’s easy to imagine this night playing out in perpetuity; it’s a magical night, but also every night.
Reviews of Short Films
Boa Noite Cinderela
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Garotas da Moda
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Brazilian Short Documentary Film Review
Mondial 2010
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Lebanese Short Documentary Film Review
Other Articles
700 Sundays
The Morning After: Oct. 20, 2014
- Excerpt: Short review of “One Fine Day”
Pick from 10 retro horror flicks in the lead-up to Halloween: Indie & art house films
- Excerpt: With Halloween just a week away, don’t miss your last chance to catch all the frightful film offerings around Portland.
Tightwad Terror Tuesday for 10-21-14 – The Best Free Movies on the Web
James Jay Edwards @ iHorror.com
What’s Up Doc?
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: They often get quite a bit less attention than their fictional brethren, and it doesn’t help that many films fly under the radar while development and filming is underway. To chart this course with a little more precision, I’m launching IONCINEMA.com’s latest feature, What’s Up Doc?, our monthly Top 50 Most Anticipated films, a sort of hitlist and/or snapshot of the most alluring, the most promising documentary film projects from the established documentarian guard, the new crop of future voices or the fiction filmmakers who on occasion dip their toes in the form.
