OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje of “Thor”
Geoffrey Rush, Sophie Nelisse, Brian Percival and Markus Zusak on “The Book Thief”
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
Homefront Star Jason Statham
Billy Donnelly @ This Is Infamous
John Krokidas on “Kill Your Darlings”
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
Mark Henn of “Frozen”
Oscar Isaac of “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Steve Coogan Explores his Serious Side in ‘Philomena’
Travis Hopson @ Punch Drunk Critics
Steve Coogan of “Philomena
Nell Minow @ The Movie Mom
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
Will Forte on “Nebraska”
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: http://www.oneguysopinion.com/InterviewsResults.php?ID=520
Willow Shields Talks ‘Catching Fire’, Working with Jennifer Lawrence, and Prim’s Evolution
Travis Hopson @ Punch Drunk Critics
Festivals
Economic Devastation Is Not the Only Fruit: Seville European Film Festival
Michael Pattison @ Jigsaw Lounge
- Excerpt: Put another way, capitalism itself is radioactive, its harmful effects trans-generational if not immediately visible.
Films to Look Out For From Viennale 2013
Michael Pattison @ Dazed & Confused
Notes on Some Spanish Films at Seville European Film Festival
Michael Pattison @ Nobody Knows Anything
Permanent and Incomplete: Six Films By Nicolás Guillén Landrián
Michael Pattison @ The Notebook / Mubi
Planet in Focus: Have You Seen the Arana?
Matthew Blevins @ Nextprojection.com
- Excerpt: Have you Seen the Arana? offers rare glimpses of diverse families possessing differing beliefs and the same essential concerns and needs as inhabitants of the developed world.
StLIFF 2013: Cold Comes the Night
Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephile
- Excerpt: Tze Chun’s Cold Comes the Night—and what a deliciously Chandler-esque title that is—pursues some intriguing variations on noir conventions.
TIFF’s The Hard Way – The Films of Bette Davis Review: The Little Foxes (1941)
Matthew Blevins @ Nextprojection.com
- Excerpt: The Little Foxes borrows melodramatic qualities from its source material while remaining pointedly cinematic with an undercurrent of cutting-edge sophistication. An empowered Bette Davis exudes willful determinism that predates America feminist movements by decades, and some black background characters are allowed to exist in Foxes with fully formed solemnity rarely found in golden age Hollywood.
Viennale 2013: Three Landscapes of Labour
Michael Pattison @ Sight & Sound
- Excerpt: Too often in filmmaking, landscape is mere backdrop – and nature something that exists as some kind of abstraction, in negation to men but seldom interrelating with them. What makes the Viennale important is that it gives voice to filmmakers like Sniadecki and Benicheti able and willing to present the world as the outcome of a more complicated dialectic.
Tributes
James Franco = Leonardo Da Vinci + Martin Sheen
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: «?e????? f???? µe?a????? ?a? ???? ?a µe??? µ????. ??te, t? s???t?? µe t? ??ta µ??, ?a? µ?? ?pe???µ??e? ?t? e?µa? ? James Franco! ?? ?ste?a ???e???µe!»
Awards Coverage
No Concessions: The Contenders
- Excerpt: Setting the table for awards season.
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 22-24, 2013
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances for “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” and “Philomena”
Other Articles
Aningaaq
Destroy All Monsters: Katniss Everdeen’s Utopia
Flattening History: Some Notes on the Films of Nicolas Rey
Carson Lund @ Are the Hills Going to March Off?
- Excerpt: Rey’s films are about key technological, industrial, political, and aesthetic developments in the 20th century—obliquely so in Differently, Molussia and directly so in Schuss!. His structuring principles, meanwhile, encourage the viewer to see everything as eternally relevant; they flatten the course of history into a dense whole in which the happenings of a seemingly distant past exist alongside and inflect or affect the movements of the present.
Harmony Lessons
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Legacy
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Short Film Review
Macklemore, Warped Queer Advocacy, and Why Dallas Buyers Club is One of the Year’s Worst Films
R. Kurt Osenlund @ The House Next Door
The Magic Ferret
- Excerpt: Imaginative and amiable, Parker delivers an infectious narrative that gives hope, faith and adventure to children in search for emotional fulfillment. The Magic Ferret should be a delightfully bouncy fable for the crafty tykes out there filling their quiet despair with creativity.
The Morning After: Nov. 25, 2013
- Excerpt: Short reviews of “Executive Suite”, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, “The Croods” and “It’s a Disaster”