OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha)
Laurent Cantet Interview
Philip Concannon @ Phil on Film
Oscar Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Aug. 9-11, 2013
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances for “Elysium”
Other Articles
1900
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: A majestic political and artistic triumph, and one of the finest films of all time, “1900” (made in 1976) is Bernardo Bertolucci’s crowning achievement and the benchmark of collectivist socio-political cinema.
A Ceia
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
A Estrela Mais Brilhante
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Come and See
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Come and See is Klimov’s paean to loss.
Confessions of a Serial Movie-Killer
- Excerpt: I have a confession to make. This is tough, but it’s important for me to be truthful about it to my colleagues, my family, my readers… and most of all, myself. Here goes: I am a serial killer.
De Mim…
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Don’t Look Now
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: It’s a wonder that Alfred Hitchcock didn’t lay claim to Daphne du Maurier’s short-story “Don’t Look Now.”
Gris
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Mexican Animated Short Film Review
Ismalia
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Mai Stati Uniti
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
The Netflix Cropping Mystery, Solved (Maybe)
- Excerpt: It’s sort of sad how easy it would be to fix all of this. But I’m not holding my breath.
O Desalmado
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Rotos
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Settle Down, ‘Star Wars’ Fans: Your Entitlement Is Out of Control
- Excerpt: That’s the point we’ve arrived at with movie hype: the choice to maintain some semblance of secrecy about a project two years from delivery is not only a vile insult, but an indication of big trouble. Come again?
Sorry, But Movie Theater Texters Aren’t Victims
- Excerpt: It’s not just that he doesn’t understand the argument — he wrongly assumes that the question is one of “honoring” the creator, and not the far simpler (but harder to argue) contention that a bunch of jagoffs lighting up screens around you is incredibly fucking distracting when you’re just trying to watch a movie — it’s that anyone on the other side of the argument is, by comparison, a racist, a sexist, a Flat-Earther, a climate change denier, and a homophobe.
Summer Films: Hits and Misses
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: Film critics Nell Minow and Mack Bates talk about the best and worst movies released this summer.
Supercut: Robert De Niro Loses His Shit
- Excerpt: Since there’s nothing more enjoyable than an actor blowing his top, we sifted through over 30 De Niro pictures to put together this montage of Bobby D going off the deep end.