OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
13 Great Documentaries from 2015
Ben Nicholson @ What’s Up, Docs? on Medium
- Excerpt: As clichéd as it may be becoming to say, we’re currently experiencing something of a documentary Golden Age. This is a list of thirteen fascinating docs that are worth taking a look at?.
Top Ten Films of 2015
Awards Coverage
88th Oscars: Post-Nominations Thoughts
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight’s Post-Oscar nominations thoughts.
How ‘Carol’ Got Screwed
- Excerpt: There are plenty of movies every year whose absence at the announcement of the Academy Award nominations cause head-scratching, teeth-gnashing, and similar displays of displeasure, but every year there’s one whose snub (and I don’t use the word lightly) seems particularly egregious, and worthy of exploration. Last year it was ‘Selma’; this year, it’s ‘Carol,’ Todd Haynes’ magnificent adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s ‘The Price of Salt.’
Let’s Talk About Those Baffling Oscar Nominations
- Excerpt: The good news: the months and months of speculation over who will be nominated for an Academy Award is over. The bad news: now it’s time for six weeks of speculation over who will win them.
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8
- Excerpt: Looking at the winners and losers of Precursor Week 8
The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road lay claim on Oscars
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: Carol’s absence from the Best Directing and Picture slots causes shockwaves, Leo’s time seems to have come
Interviews
Adam McKay – The Big Short
Hou Hsiao-hsien – The Assassin
László Nemes on “Son of Saul”
Nell Minow @ The Huffington Post
- Excerpt: From my point of view, the film immerses the viewer and communicates in a very visceral way the experience of the individual in the concentration camp and it gives an intuitive sense of what limitations the individual had to face in the extermination process and what the Holocaust was like.
Michael Lewis on “The Big Short”
Nell Minow @ The Huffington Post
- Excerpt: I thought the one way to get people to watch this thing is to make them laugh first and then once you have made them laugh maybe you would have them hooked and you could teach them something.
Radu Muntean Talks ‘One Floor Below’ and Making Viewers Uncomfortable
- Excerpt: Interview with ‘One Floor Below’ director Radu Muntean
Steve Carell – The Big Short
Festivals: General Coverage
AltCineAction brings Balkan shorts straight to your screen
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: The alternative film festival aims at building a viewrship for the Balkan production, focusing on shorts vieing for a number of co-production awards
Festivals: Individual Reviews
2016 Palms Springs International Film Festival – Closet Monster
James Wegg @ JWR (James Weg Review)
- Excerpt: Exorcising your demons
2016 Palms Springs International Film Festival – Exotica, Erotica, Etc.
James Wegg @ JWR (James Weg Review)
- Excerpt: Ode to the Unknown Sailor
2016 Palms Springs International Film Festival – Moor
James Wegg @ JWR (James Weg Review)
- Excerpt: It’s all a question of degree
2016 Palms Springs International Film Festival – Papa
James Wegg @ JWR (James Weg Review)
- Excerpt: Into a world of madness
2016 Palms Springs International Film Festival – The Assassin
James Wegg @ JWR (James Weg Review)
- Excerpt: All the ingredients of a Shakespeare play
Rams
Dustin Jansick @ Way Too Indie
Tributes
Celebrities and Their Famous Parents
Robert Cashill @ Biography.com
- Excerpt: A tribute to Mariska Hargitay and other storied progeny.
David Bowies big screen charisma
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: It’s not just the soundtrack of our lives that’s just missed a beat, but also the images and stories filling our silver-screen dreams
In Memoriam: Nikos Panayiotopoulos
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: Greece’s most prolific director drops final end credits.
Television
The X-Files: Season 10
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Essays
Is the new Star Wars a reboot, or not?
Robert Roten @ Laramie Movie Scope
- Excerpt: Star Wars is a reboot, a remake and a sequel.
The Uncomfortable Nature of Race in the Hateful Eight
Reviews of Short Films
Je Suis Sousa Mendes
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese-Brazilian Short Documentary Film Review
Other Articles
15 Seriously Underrated X-Files Episodes
Academy Award Nominations and Predictions
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: A podcast discussion of Oscar nominations and predictions featuring film critics Nell Minow, Mack Bates, Geoff Roberts and host Betty Jo Tucker.
Monday Memo: Cinema Eye Honors Awarded, Oscar Noms Named
The Morning After: Jan 18, 2016
- Excerpt: A short review of “Sherlock: The Abominable Bride”