OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
10 Of The Most Awesomely Bad Horror Movies On Netflix
James Jay Edwards @ iHorror.com
Interviews
Andrew Bujalski on Subverting the Rom-Com and Making Kevin Corrigan a Movie Star in ‘Results’
- Excerpt: The key that unlocks Bujalski’s freewheeling approach to the romantic comedy is the third point in the film’s love triangle, an eccentric millionaire played by the eccentric character actor Kevin Corrigan. His performance here is a revelation, with an oddness and unpredictability that comes to define the movie.
Eddie Muller
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
- Excerpt: The “Czar of Noir” talks about film noir and hosting TCM’s Summer of Darkness
Festivals: General Coverage
Cole Smithey at Cannes 2015: COMPLETE
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Cole’s Video Essay Compilation of Cannes 2015
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Amy — CANNES 2015
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: The must-see-documentary at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Asif Kapadia’s ambitious biography of Amy Winehouse is a devastating look at how some of the people closest to her contributed to the singer/songwriter’s untimely demise.
Carol — CANNES 2015
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Here is a film that doesn’t need any awards to stake its worthiness. That said, awards of some variety will surely follow.
Hitchcock Truffaut — CANNES 2015
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Although inappropriately screened in the Cannes Classics section of the festival Kent Jones’s painstaking documentary, about the historic eight-day interview sessions between Francois Truffaut and his hero-filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock fulfills an essential niche in the history of cinema.
The Lobster — CANNES 2015
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: …for many audiences, Lanthimos’s determinedly odd picture will come across as a half-baked attempt at (black) social satire.
Love — CANNES 2015
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Noe, the genius behind such groundbreaking cinematic examples of social satire as “I Stand Alone” and “Irreversible” has made a film so sophomoric that it boggles the mind that it came from the same person who made “Enter the Void,” one of the most visually and viscerally challenging films of the last 20 years.
Macbeth — CANNES 2015
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: The film is one of the worst adaptations of a Shakespeare play ever to be projected onto a movie screen.
Mad Max Fury Road — CANNES 2015
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Instant cult classic? You bet.
An Open Secret — CANNES 2015
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: This is a movie that matters.
Tale of Tales — CANNES 2015
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Muddled yet delightfully grotesque, ribald, and opulent Matteo Garrone’s warped fairytale triptych isn’t winning any awards in Cannes but it breathes with the cinematic madness of Ken Russell.
La Tete Haute — CANNES 2015
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: If some critics recoil from “Standing Tall,” it says more about their inability to grapple with the genre than it does about the movie. “Standing Tall” is the kind of uncompromising film Ken Loach would love.
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 29-31, 2015
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances for “San Andreas”
Television
Nightingale
- Excerpt: It’s a performance of forceful intensity, both physically and psychologically, particularly as everything begins to unravel and his demeanor gets subtly more panicked. Oyelowo’s work here is reminiscent of De Niro in ‘Taxi Driver’ or Gyllenhaal in ‘Nightcrawler’ — it’s a film that burrows into an unstable psyche, and nestles there uncomfortably.
Essays
From Ava to Athena: The Female Robot in Today’s Cinema
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Mad Max: Fury Road, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Slow West, Ex Machina
- Excerpt: The well-meaning but entitled white knight may be alive and well in plenty of places, from patronizing politicians to your average rom-com hero; but in a wide-ranging crop of recent movies, he’s being thoroughly, effectively knocked off his high horse.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe Is Evil and Needs to Die
Mike McGranaghan @ Film Racket
Reviews of Short Films
Con Quien Sueña Berta?
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
El Alpinista
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
La Gallina
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Plein Soleil
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Belgian Short Film Review
La Ropavejera
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Soy tan Feliz
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Other Articles
Book vs. Movie: Which One Wins? Pt 2: The Book
Crime
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Feature Film Review
Exit Lines: “The Spoils”
- Excerpt: Jesse Eisenberg’s new Off Broadway play reviewed.
Exit Lines: The 2015 Drama Desk Awards
- Excerpt: Looking at the star-studded theater awards.
Fora da Vida
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Documentary Review
Monday Memo: Charlotte Cook leaving Hot Docs, NBC Sports Announces Doc Film Unit
Jordan M. Smith @ Stranger Than Fiction
O Indispensável Treino da Vagueza
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Documentary Review
Spanish Horror Film
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: This is the first English language book devoted to horror films from Spain. Even for those who may not have more than passing interest in the films beyond a few critically acclaimed titles, what makes this book valuable are discussions on how one approaches genre films as a subject of serious discussion.