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By Oren Shai • Jan 31st, 2011 • Category: Updates
Dennis Cozzalio featured Condemned in his great film blog, Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule today. Check out an excerpt below. Shai’s achievement . . . is one of patience with building mood and ambience that is possible only when a director gets a handle of how to modulate little things like time and [...]
By Oren Shai • Jan 19th, 2011 • Category: Condemned
Bill Crider, the prolific author, blogger, paperback collector, wrote about Condemned yesterday in his Pop Culture Blog as part of an Overlooked Films series initiated by Todd Mason. Head over to Bill Crider’s blog to read the piece. Also, the blog Adventures in Nerdliness wrote about Condemned in their WIP Wednesday feature. Read it here. [...]
By Oren Shai • Jan 11th, 2011 • Category: Updates
Condemned has been featured in the Online Cinema section of Bad Lit along with a review. Head over for the full piece, an excerpt below. “There’s a sultry, sexy feel to the film . . . the simmering, sweaty tension creates a sense of tension and menace that oozes in every shot.” Also, the Noir [...]
By Oren Shai • Jan 4th, 2011 • Category: Condemned
Condemned is premiering online today. You can watch it for free by heading to the film’s page at: http://condemned.rockingoren.com/ For maximum effects expand to full screen and watch in the dark! CONDEMNED is a 14-minute Noir-infused tribute to the Women-in-Prison films of the 1950s, with a Spaghetti Western twist. Over the past year it has [...]
By Oren Shai • Nov 18th, 2010 • Category: Condemned
Condemned has been reviewed on the Paracinema Magazine website. Check out their review, as well as their great magazine. A short excerpt below, and the full piece right here. …The viewer is treated to a quiet film rife with good performances, atmosphere, and striking cinematography . . . Oren Shai is not a name I [...]
By Oren Shai • Oct 26th, 2010 • Category: Condemned, Updates
Mondo Digital chose Condemned as one of their most recent Sick Picks. Check out an excerpt below, and head over to Mondo Digital for the full piece. Director Oren Shai is definitely one to watch and is working on his first feature, which should really be something else. Not everyone can pull off something that [...]
By Oren Shai • Sep 11th, 2010 • Category: Condemned, Heavy Soul
A new review of Condemned was posted today on the Melbourne-based film blog, Liminal Vision. Written by Tara Judah. Check out the excerpt below and visit Liminal Vision for the full review. The narrative becomes secondary to the stunning visual style and incredibly affecting tone which afford the film with the surprising weight and substance [...]
By Oren Shai • Sep 5th, 2010 • Category: Condemned
DVD Trash just posted a new review of Condemned. Head over to read the full review. Excerpt below. A beautifully shot little homage to 70′s women in prison exploitation flicks although those b-movie classics of yesteryear were never this well put together. A sweaty, claustrophobic, noir-like feel is evoked throughout with an excellent performance from [...]
By Oren Shai • Aug 19th, 2010 • Category: Condemned
A great new review of Condemned, by Alison Nastasi, was published yesterday at Horror Squad. Read the excerpt below, and head over to the full review. Shai has a keen eye and although Condemned relies heavily on its dialogue, there are some fantastic visuals that help us enter the prisoners’ world. Light, shadows, and framing [...]
By Oren Shai • Aug 13th, 2010 • Category: Heavy Soul
It’s Just Movies recently featured and reviewed my 2005 short film, Heavy Soul: “Heavy Soul” is highly recommended for those who enjoy taking a cinematic walk on the wild side every now and again. A word of warning, though: You will likely find yourself deliriously tempted to make repeat journeys down this film’s twisted, spiralling [...]