OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
Maiken Baird and Michelle Major of “Venus and Serena”
- Excerpt: We were planning on following tennis players playing tennis. We didn’t know what was going to become of the film, what it was going to be. We thought we would be on tennis courts and we found ourselves in medical facilities.
Margaret Talbot on her movie star father
- Excerpt: loved Margaret Talbot’s book about her father, actor Lyle Talbot, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. His career spanned the full range of entertainment from the traveling shows of the 1920′s to movies in the golden age of Hollywood co-starring with Bette Davis, Mae West, Carole Lombard, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers and Shirley Temple. He escorted starlet to glamorous nightclubs and visited William Randolph Hearst’s legendary San Simeon. He helped found the Screen Actor’s Guild, he played Ozzie and Harriet’s neighbor on television, and he appeared in films directed by the notorious Ed Wood.
Pub Culture: Laurie Cansfield on The Vaults and forthcoming doc Proper Pubs
Festivals
Varilux French Film Festival (part 1)
Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
Varilux French Film Festival (part 2)
Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
Oscar Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 10-12, 2013
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances for both “The Great Gatsby” and “Venus and Serena”
Other Articles
#GOG79
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Abre los Ojos
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
“The Best Man Holiday Trailer Aims To Rekindle The Charm Of The First Film
Bloody Sunday
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Although originally produced for British television in 2002, Paul Greengrass’s vivid depiction of a violent turning point in the so-called Troubles in Northern Ireland was released in theaters in the States.
Far From Heaven
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: “Far From Heaven” (2002) is Todd Haynes’s virtuosic homage to the cinema of Douglas Sirk (famous for “All That Heaven Allows” (1955) and “Imitation of Life” (1959).
Film Threat Podcast: Episode 82
Don Lewis @ Film Threat
Film Threat Podcast: Episode 83
Don Lewis @ Film Threat
The Great Gatsby
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Widely trashed by a cabal of critics who didn’t know a good film when they saw it, Jack Clayton’s 1974 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel beautifully captures its romantic essence and caustic social indictments.
Metro: Last Light, Cloud Atlas
Phil Villarreal @ COEDMagazine.com
Michael B. Jordan Shines In The Stirring First Trailer for the Sundance Drama, “Fruitvale Station”
The New Teaser Trailer For The Sci-Fi Drama, “Gravity,” Wins Today’s Internet
Nowhere in Particular
Paula Patton Goes On A 30-Day Quest To Find The One in “Baggage Claim” (Trailer)
The Sea Inside
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: The true story of a quadriplegic on a mission of assissted suicide would seem to present an insurmountable challenge for any filmmaker.
Slap Shot
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Rooted in America’s downturned economic reality of the late ‘70s, “Slap Shot” (1977) was the brainchild of screenwriter Nancy Dowd, the sister of minor league hockey player Ned Dowd of the Johnstown Jets.
Spinning Discs: Great Escapes
- Excerpt: Blu-ray/DVD column that this week includes THE GREAT ESCAPE and MAMA.
Transilvania
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Uma Rosa no Deserto
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review