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- Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television - With information on Genie Awards, Prix Gémeaux and the Gemini Awards. You can search the awards history database.
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) - Provides information about the Annual Academy Awards, its publications, programs and exhibits, the Margaret Herrick Library and the Academy's Film Archive. Of special note is the Academy Awards database which allows you to search for winners and nominees in all categories from 1927 to the present.
- L'Agence du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion (ACID) - "Créée en 1992 par des réalisateurs qui refusaient la perspective d'un cinéma régi par un modèle unique, excluant progressivement toute expression..."
- Ain't it Cool News Page - Harry Jay Knowles covers "scripts, casting, pre-production, production, post-production, test screenings, marketing, and the release of the films." Site also has reviews, links to other resources and a section on collectibles.
- All-Movie Guide - Search by title or actor or browse by genres, moods, country or time. With Film Finder, People Finder, Glossary and Essays.
- Amazon.com Videos
- America at Work, America at Leisure 1894-1915 - Library of Congress’ American Memory site has digitized 150 motion pictures documenting work, school, and leisure in the United States from 1894 to 1915.
- American Film Institute - Presenters of the Life Achievement Award.
- Smoke Signals (1998) - First movie written, directed and co-produced by Native Americans. It was based on stories from Sherman Alexie's
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. There is information on Alexie, a Spokane Coeur d'Alêne Indian, in
Modern American Poetry. You can also buy the movie's
soundtrack which features music by
Ulali.
- Dance Me Outside(1994) - Film by Bruce McDonald, based on W.P. Kinsella's
novel of the same name, features the music of
Keith Secola, whose Homeland won Best Instrumental Recording at the 2001 Native American Music Awards.
- Incident at Oglala - The Leonard Peltier Story (1992) - Directed by Michael Apted and described by New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin as a "straightforward, meticulous documentary" is available in
dvd or
video. Apted's Thunderheart (1992) was filmed on the Pine Ridge Reservation and employs many Indian actors, including John Trudell and Chief Ted Thin Elk.
- American Movie Classics - "Premier cable TV network dedicated to the best of classic Hollywood."
- American Museum of the Moving Image
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - "Oldest film company in Hollywood."
- American Prospect: Film Reviews
- American Society of Cinematographers
- Art Historians' Guide to the Movies - Craig Eliason, an art historian living in New Jersey.
- Art on Film - "Clearinghouse for information about film, video, CD-ROM and other interactive productions on fine arts, architecture, photography, decorative arts, and related topics. (Affiliated with the School of Information & Library Science (SILS) at Pratt Institute.)
- AtomFilms - Offers hundreds of outstanding short films, in their entirety, including the 1999 Academy Award nominee Holiday Romance, an 18 minute comedy and In the Mirror of the Sky by the Mexican director Carlos Salces, winner of the Mexican Academy Award for Best Short Film. Dinner Along the Amazon (23 minutes) directed by Patrick Sisam was nominated for a Canadian Gemini Award. Other titles worth watching: Kung Pao Chicken (6 minutes), Allerd Fishbein's in Love (21 minutes), Summertime's Calling Me (17 minutes), and Funeral of the Last Gypsy King (8 minutes).
- Australian Film Commission - There is a searchable Database of Films & Awards. Their Screensound is a national screen and sound archive.
- Australian Film Institute
- Academy Awards - Bestowed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- Australian Film Institute L’Oréal Paris Awards
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards
- British Independent Film Awards
- Les César du Cinéma - L'Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. The Cesar Awards are France's version of the Oscars. "Récompense cinématographique, décernée annuellement en France depuis 1977."
- Critics' Choice Awards - Presented by the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA)
- Directors Guild of America Awards
- European Film Awards Archive - Presented by the European Film Academy
- Gemini Awards - "Celebrate excellence in Canadian English-language television."
- Genie Awards - Presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. See also the Canadian Awards Database
- Golden Globes - Awarded in January by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- IFP Independent Spirit Awards - Independent Feature Project
- Life Achievement Awards - American Film Institute
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- Lumière - Prize awarded by the foreign press in France for best movie.
- National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Annual Awards - Announced in December.
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- Premio de la Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas - Known as the Ariel Awards.
- Prix Louis-Delluc - Awarded annually in December at Le Fouquet's to the best French film.
- Prix Louis Marcorelles
- Producers Guild Awards
- Razzies - Golden Raspberry Award Foundation has 503 voting members (critics, filmgoers, people in the entertainment business) who select worst picture, actor, director, screenplay etc.
- Screen Actors' Guild Awards
- Society for Cinema & Media Studies Awards
- Swiss Film Prize
- Bahman Ghobadi - Official web page of the Iranian director of Turtles Can Fly.
- Based on the Book - "Compilation of over 1,200 books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures." (Mid-Continent Public Library)
- BBC Movies - News, interviews, profiles and links. See also BBC Four Film and BBC Film
- Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive - Has a Film Notes database which "contains over 12,000 filmnotes written by PFA curators and staff between 1979 and the present"and a CineFiles database which consists of "reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the PFA Library's clipping files."
- Black Film Center/Archive - Indiana University
- Blockbuster
- Books - Recommended titles:
- The Film Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Flimological Knowledge (2006) by David Kamp and Lawrence Levi
- Boston Globe: Arts & Entertainment
- BoxOffice Online - Provides Films in the Works, al alphabetical listing (with short summaries) of films in production.
- Bravo TV - They have a Movie Guide. See also their Daily Schedule.
- Bright Lights Film Journal
- BritFilms.com - Film and Television Department of the British Council offers the British Films Catalogue and a Directory of International Film and Video Festivals.
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) - UK's leading organisation promoting and rewarding the best in film, television and interactive media. The Orange British Academy Film Awards are held in London in February.
- British Film Institute
- British Independent Film Awards
- British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND) - British Universities Film & Video Council
- Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) - Presenters of the Critics' Choice Awards.
- Carpetbagger - Blog of David Carr of the New York Times
- Centre for British Film and Television Studies
- Centre National de la Cinématographie - Founded in 1992
- Les César du Cinéma - L'Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. The Cesar Awards are France's version of the Oscars. "Récompense cinématographique, décernée annuellement en France depuis 1977."
- Cinefest - No-frills film festival held annually in March in Liverpool, New York.
- CineGraph - "Daten, Fakten und Hintergründe zur Geschichte des deutschsprachigen Films."
- Cinema - Links to film resources from the French Ministère de la culture's Guide de l'Internet culturel.
- Cinema.It - Italian cinema; (see review of Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty)
- Cinémathèque Afrique - Library of over 1200 films by African directors covering over 30 years, includes fiction and documentaries devoted to French-speaking Africa. Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française (ADPF), Ministère des Affaires étrangères (Association for the Diffusion of French Thought, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs). With searchable database.
- Cinémathèque de Toulouse
- Cinémathèque française
- La Cinémathèque québécoise - Has a collection of over 35,000 titles.
- Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique
- Cinémathèque suisse
- Cinematography Mailing list - "Website for people who earn their living as cinematographers, operators & assistants."
- CineMedia - "Internet's largest film & media directory."
- CineMovies
- Collecting Vintage Film - Michael Rogge. See also his One Hundred Years of Film Sizes
- Coming Attractions - Offscreen gossip
- Corbis Motion
- Cranky Critic - Chuck Schwartz
- Criterion Collection - Janus Films
- Danske Filminstitut
- Dark Horizons: Latest Films News, Rumours & Scoops - Garth Franklin
- Deutsches Filminstitut (DIF) - COLLATE (Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material) "offers access to a specialized digital repository comprising annotated historic text documents on film production and film censorship in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s."
See also Collate.
- Digital Hollywood - Trade conference for the film, television, music, home video, cable, telecommunications and computer industries.
- Susanne Bier (1960-) - Danish director
- After the Wedding (Efter brylluppet) (2006)- Reviews: After the Wedding: Shifty Wedding Crashers: Secrets From the Past by Manohla Dargis, New York Times, March 30, 2007;
- Brothers (2005) - Reviews: Wartime's Collateral Damage by Stephen Holden, New York Times, May 6, 2005.
- Open Hearts (2002) - Reviews: Open Hearts: The Fist of a Merciless Fate Wallops Four Lives at Once by Stephen Holden, New York Times, February 21, 2003;
- Directors Guild of America - With full-text to current and archived issues of DGA Magazine which is searchble. Recent articles include Peter Jackson discusses making The Lord of the Rings trilogy (January 2002) and Spike Lee talks about his controversial new film Bamboozled (November 2000),
- Drew's Scripts-O-Rama - Over 500 movie and television scripts
- E! Online - Entertainment Weekly. Has a Moviessection, lists of movies new this week and current movies.
- Educational Media Reviews Online - "Database of video, DVD, and CD-ROM reviews on materials from major educational and documentary distributors. The reviews are written primarily by librarians and teaching faculty in institutions across the United States and Canada. The reviews are given one of three ratings: Recommended, Highly Recommended, or Not Recommended....The reviews are aimed at an educational audience, primarily academic librarians. There are some children's and K-12 reviews in the database, but they are not the main focus."
- Entertainment Ratings - Federal Trade Commission
- European Film Academy - Has an archive of Winners of the European Film Awards
- Facets Multimedia
- Festival International du Film de Cannes
- New York Film Critics Circle: Critics
- David Edelstein - New York Magazine
- Anthony Lane - New Yorker
- David Denby - New Yorker
- David Edelstein - Fresh Air, National Public Radio. See his The Year in Movies: the Best of 2006
, December 19, 2006.
- Penelope Gilliatt - New Yorker
- Robert J. Hughes - Wall Street Journal. Use the WSJ Resource Center Search Page or Google to locate his reviews
- Pauline Kael (1919-2001) - Movie critic for the New Yorker from 1968 to 1991. She won a National Book Award in 1974 for Deeper into Movies. You can search inside Conversations With Pauline Kael (University Press of Mississippi, 1996) at Amazon.com.
See My Life as a Paulette [abstract] by David Denby, New Yorker, October 20, 2003.. "Pauline Kael was motherly but brilliant, erudite but entirely informal, morally alert but as bawdy as a San Francisco madam." You can also search the New Yorker for items by and about Kael.
- Joe Morgenstern - of the Wall Street Journal received a Pulitzer Prize in 2005. His reviews "elucidated the strengths and weaknesses of film with rare insight, authority and wit." Use the WSJ Resource Center Search Page or Google to locate his reviews.
- Michael Sragow - New Yorker
- New Yorker Films
- Celluoid Dreams
- Swank Motion Pictures
- Kino International
- Berlin
- La Biennale di Venezia
- Cairo Film Festival
- Cannes
- Cinéma du Réel: Festival international de cinéma documentaire - French documentary film festival held in Paris in March
- Edinburgh International Film Festival
- Festival Internationale du Film sur L'Art - Montreal
- International Film Festival - Rotterdam
- Toronto
- New York
- New York International Children's Film Festival - Held in March
- Palm Springs International Film Festival
- Pusan International Film Festival - South Korea
- Santa Fe Film Festival
- Sundance
- Telluride Film Festival - Held each Labor Day Weekend since 1974 in a Colorado mountain town. There is a program guide for the 34th Telluride Film Festival (2007).
- Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF)
- Viennale
- Film Music / Mobygratis.com - "For independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short."
- Filmcritica: Rivista di Cinema, Film e Critica Cinematografica
- FilmFestivals.com
- Film Forum - "New York's leading movie house for independent premiers and repertory programming."
- Filmlexicon - International film lexicon with over 42,000 entries (in German).
- Film Literature Index - "Annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles."
- Filmmuseum - Amsterdam. "Holland's museum for cinematography. The museum's collection of films covers the whole of the history of cinema from the very first silent films, dating from the late 19th century, up to the latest contemporary digital productions." You can search the Library Catalog.
- The Film 100 - "Ranking of the 100 most influential people in the history of the cinema."
- Film-Philosophy - "A philosophical review of cinema, the salon combines original review articles with email response and discussion. Plus our regular selection of the best new writings and other links from around the web."
- Film Society of Lincoln Center (Filmlinc) - Producers of the New York Film Festival and publishers of Film Comment Magazine. there is a list of programs series and a monthly calendar for films shown in the Walter Reade Theater. (Film Comment Magazine is is available in full-text from 01/01/1988 to present in ProQuest Research Library from 01/01/1994 to present in InfoTrac OneFile. These are fee-based subscription databases.)
- Film Sound Theory - Sven E Carlsson's site has articles, a glossary, and a bibliography.
- FilmArchiv Austria
- Filmakers Library - Documentary films indexed by subject and title. These are primarily educational films available for rental or purchase.
- Film Threat Online - "Hollywood's Indie Voice."
- Filmoteca Española
- Filmoteca de la UNAM - Mexico
- Footage.Net - Search stock footage resources.
- Forum des Images - Searchable database of "audio-visual collection exploring the city of Paris on film, currently comprising more than 6300 titles and covering the period from 1895 to the present day."
- Fox Interactive
- L'Agence du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion (ACID) - "Créée en 1992 par des réalisateurs qui refusaient la perspective d'un cinéma régi par un modèle unique, excluant progressivement toute expression..."
- Archives Françaises du Film - "Au cœur du site se trouve la base de données documentaire (LISE), déjà riche de 20 000 notices film en ligne, qui ouvre accès aux notices documentaires décrivant les films déposés aux AFF et réalisés depuis 1883 jusqu’à nos jours. Dès à présent sont accessibles 17 000 notices portant sur des longs et courts métrages de fiction principalement français, incluant les films déposés au titre du dépôt légal depuis 1977, et 3000 notices portant sur des films documentaires rares." (From les archives françaises du film du CNC ouvrent leurs collections,
- Association Française des directeurs de la photographie Cinématographique (AFC)
- Association Française de Recherche sur l'Histoire du Cinéma (AFRHC)
- Bibliothèque du Filme (BIFI) - " Established in 1992 by the French Ministry of Culture in order to bring together and house in one place the riches of the French film-making industry which were at that time scattered among the National Cinema Centre-CNC,the French Film Archives, FEMIS and private collections held by cinema professionals or their descendants." Provides access to a searchable databases (les bases de données). Try a title search for Baisers volés (Stolen Kisses), one of the four adventures of Antoine Doinel. The other three are The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups), Love at Twenty (L'amour à vingt ans) and Bed and Board (Domicile conjugal). Click on the camera icon (fiche film) for further information on the film, including plot and actors. Eric Schmulevitch, a Professor at the l'Institut Européen de Cinéma et d'Audiovisuel, has assembled a "bibliographie générale" for the 100th anniversary of Sergeï Eisenstein. (In French only.)
- Catalogue collectif de France - Try searching for Truffaut, réalisateur, cinéma, film, cinéaste, critique cinématographique etc.
- Centre National de la Cinématographie - Founded in 1992
- Les César du Cinéma - L'Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. The Cesar Awards are France's version of the Oscars. "Récompense cinématographique, décernée annuellement en France depuis 1977."
- Cinefil - Database of over 30,000 films. A search (rechercher un film) for bleu retrieves over 90 titles, including L'Ange Blue (Blue Angel), with a RealAudio song from the movie (Marlene Dietrich singing Falling in Love Again).
- Cinema Revolution [Audio File, New Yorker Outloud, April 7, 2008, 15:52 minutes] - Richard Brody, whose Auteur Wars: Godard, Truffaut, and the Birth of the New Wave, is in the April 7, 2008 issue, is interviewed by Matt Dellinger. Brody has written about Godard in Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, Metropolitan Books, 2008.
See also
The Urgent Whisper [Profile of Jean-Luc Godard] by Penelope Gilliatt, New Yorker, October 25, 1976 and
An Exile in Paradise [Profile of Jean-Luc Godard] by Richard Brody, November 20, 2000.
- Cinémathèque Afrique - Library of over 1200 films by African directors covering over 30 years, includes fiction and documentaries devoted to French-speaking Africa. Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française (ADPF), Ministère des Affaires étrangères (Association for the Diffusion of French Thought, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs). With searchable database.
- La Cinémathèque Française - "After the Liberation of Paris the Cinémathèque's tiny, sixty-seat screening room, on the Avenue de Messine, became the premier repertory house in France" (After the Revolution by Louis Menand, New Yorker, October 20, 2003).
- La Cinémathèque québécoise - Has a collection of over 35,000 titles.
- e-Cahiers du Cinema
- Etienne-Jules Marey: le mouvement en lumière / Etienne-Jules Marey: movement in light - Online exhibition, in French and English, designed and created by La Maison du Cinéma and La Cinémathèque Française.
- Festival International du Film de Cannes
- France Cinema Multimedia
- Gaumont - (France). Gaumont Pathé Archives. See also La Cinémathèque Gaumont - Histoire d'images.
- Images en bibliothèques
- Institut Lumiere
- Institut Jean Vigo - Perpignan, France. With Site Map and a Lexique cinématographique.
- Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA)
- Le Monde: Critiques cinéma
- Luc Jacquet - French documentary film director. His La Marche de l'Empereur (The Emperor's Journey) released in January 2005, is about Emperor penguins in Antarctica.
- Lumière - Prize awarded by the foreign press in France for best movie.
- Musée Départemental Albert Kahn - 14 rue du Port, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris (01.47.12.05.30). The museum is owned by the Departement des Hauts-de-Seine. Albert Kahn (1860-1940) is best known for his Archives de la Planète (ADLP). Kahn's mission was "to photograph the whole world, and to preserve it…as an Archive of the Planet". For additional information see A Philosophy in Bloom by Jacqueline McGrath, New York Times, March 30, 1997. The museum, a bit difficult to find according to McGrath, has lovely gardens and is "a repository for about 72,000 photographs and 600,000 feet of movie film." Take Metro Line 10 to Boulogne-Pont de St.-Cloud. "Either sitting inside an immense 19th Century greenhouse, or on the terrace overlooking four hectares of lush gardens, this [Le Palmarium] is undoubtedly one of the most gorgeous and unusual settings for a meal in Paris." (Let's do brunch by Julie Baker.) See also Cinema's 'sanctuary': From pre-documentary to documentary film in Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète (1908-1931) by Paula Amad, Film History: An International Journal, 2001, Vol. 13, No. 2: Pages 138-159.
- National Film Board of Canada | Office National du Film du Canada - Provides a searchable database of a collection of over 10,000 titles, including a French Film Collection.
- Prix Louis-Delluc - Awarded annually in December at Le Fouquet's to the best French film.
- Prix Louis Marcorelles
- Unifrance: cinéma français - "Promotion films et distribution, production cinématographique."
- Fresh Air - National Public Radio show hosted by Terry Gross of WHYY of Philadelphia has audio archives and is searchable. There are a number of movie-related interviews including
- Jean Claude Carriere (3/13/00) - French screenwriter
- M. Night Shyamalan (2/18/00) - Director of The Sixth Sense
- Paul Thomas Anderson (1/19/00) - Director of Magnolia
- Ghibli Museum - Tokyo. Dedicated to the work of Hayao Miyazaki. There is a Hayao Miyazaki Web. In The Auteur of Anime: A Visit with the elusive genius Hayao Miyazaki, by Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, January 17, 2006, the author describes My Neighbor Tororo as "one of the loveliest children's films ever made". The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki by Dani Cavallaro is described by a reviewer (Choice, February 2007) as "ambitious, thorough, knowledgeable, elaborate and enthusiastic." Miyazaki's films include:
- Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
- Castle in the Sky (1986)
- My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
- Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
- Porco Rosso (1992)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
- Golden Globes - Awarded in January by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- A Great Day in Harlem - Based on Jean Bach's 1994 documentary about Art Kane's photographs of 57 jazz musicians taken in Harlem in August of 1958.
- Greatest Films - Tim Dirks. With a section on Western Films.
- Grinberg Worldwide Images - You can search the Paramount and Pathé News Collections.
- HADDON - University of Oxford's "online catalogue of archival ethnographic films and film footage shot during the first half-century of cinema ...contains records of over 1500 films and lengths of film footage shot between 1895 and 1945. The material is largely documentary and was largely shot outside Western Europe."
- Harry Ranson Humanities Center: Photography & Film - University of Texas at Austin. Among the Film Collections are the David O. Selznick Collection and the Ernest Lehman Collection. The Gone With the Wind online exhibition has images of Scarlett's dresses.
- Hitchcock at 100 - New York Times (free registration). The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) also has an exhibition on Hitchcock.
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Organization of foreign correspondents based in Los Angeles, the association is best known for its annual Golden Globe Awards honoring outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television.
- Hollywood.com - Santa Monica-based independent movie guide with a database of over 131,000 films and biographies of more than 850,000 actors, directors, and crew members. In Celebrities there are biographies and RealAudio interviews with celebrities.
- Hollywood Elsewhere - Movie industry blog by Jeffrey Wells.
- Hollywood Reporter
- How to Research Movies Online - Powerpoint tutorial by librarian Paul Wiener, Melville Library, Stony Brook University. "Dozens of hot-linked websites and free databases - as well as links to blogs, schools, directories and archives . A section on keyword searching is included, and a section on film and video citation formatting. Books and writers within and outside the film criticism canon are recommended."
- Human Studies Film Archives Guide - National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
- iculture - News on film & television from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Has an archive of Film Reviews.
- IFILM.com
- Images for the Future / Beelden voor de toekomst
- IMAX - Provides information on theaters
- Independent Film Channel
- IndieFilms - "Hollywood-based network that helps independent filmmakers find investors, grants, funds and distributors."
- indieWire
- Inside the Actor's Studio - James Lipton interviews actors and directors.
- Tribute to Robert Altman - Robin Williams, Richard Gere, Julianne More, Sissy Spacek
- International Federation of Film Archives - With links to Members, listed by city. Provides full-text access to Journal of Film Preservation from November 1995 to October 2003.
- International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) - Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique. Publishers of Undercurrents, "a magazine for reflection on films, on the cinema, and on film criticism."
- International Federation of Television Archives
- Internet Archive Moving Image Archive
- Internet Movie Database - Search by character, title, quote, actor, director, plot summary
- Interview Magazine -
- Inventing Entertainment: the Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - 341 motion pictures are currently available online, browsable by title or subject. Part of the the Library of Congress' American Memory Project, an extraordinarily rich resource for audio and video materials. There is information on Viewing and Listening to American Memory Collections.
- Jacob Burns Film Center - Pleasantville, New York. See Art House to Get a Campus, New York Times, By Elsa Brenner, January 14, 2007.
- Jeeem's CinePad - Jim Emerson's "cyber-hangout for passionate movie lovers."
- The Kitchen - Soho (NYC) Arts Center has a database of its video collection, searchable by by director, performer, interviewer or title.
- Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide - Patrick J. Larkin
- Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) - Their journal, Moving Image (E-ISSN: 1542-4235 Print ISSN: 1532-3978), is published by the University of Minnesota Press.
- Bibliothèque du Filme (BIFI) - " Established in 1992 by the French Ministry of Culture in order to bring together and house in one place the riches of the French film-making industry which were at that time scattered among the National Cinema Centre-CNC,the French Film Archives, FEMIS and private collections held by cinema professionals or their descendants." Provides access to a searchable databases (les bases de données). Try a title search for Baisers volés (Stolen Kisses), one of the four adventures of Antoine Doinel. The other three are The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups), Love at Twenty (L'amour à vingt ans) and Bed and Board (Domicile conjugal). Click on the camera icon (fiche film) for further information on the film, including plot and actors. Eric Schmulevitch, a Professor at the l'Institut Européen de Cinéma et d'Audiovisuel, has assembled a "bibliographie générale" for the 100th anniversary of Sergeï Eisenstein. (In French only.)
- Catalogue collectif de France - Try searching for Truffaut, réalisateur, cinéma, film, cinéaste, critique cinématographique etc.
- George Eastman House - Rochester, New York, museum has a Motion Picture Collection of over 17,000 film titles produced since1894 and is one of the oldest film archives in the United States. With Film Calendar.
- Library of Congress Online Catalog - A Personal Name search in the Guided Catalog for wayne, john retrieved 266 results. Click on Full Record for cast, plot summary, and other useful details.
- Library of Congress Webcasts - See also Library of Congress Podcasts
- Kim Jong-il and North Korean Films - Suk-Young Kim, 26 June 2007 [75 minutes].
- Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Provides access to online catalog. Collection includes screenplays ("screenplays for more than 9000 films from 1910 to the present"). The Motion Picture Scripts Database "provides information on the location of over 30,000 screenplays held by six Southern California collections: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Margaret Herrick Library); the American Film Institute (Louis B. Mayer Library); the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library; USC (Cinema-Television Library); UCLA (Arts-Special Collections); and the Writers Guild Foundation (Shavelson-Webb Library)."
- MOMA: Film and Media Programs - New York's Museum of Modern Art provides access to DADABASE, the online catalog of the Museum of Modern Art Library, Archives and Study Centers. (A search for "Orson Welles" retrieved 20 items from the collection.)
- New York State Archives - Their Motion Picture Scripts Collection is the largest collection of film scripts in the world. See Behind the Screens - State Archives has biggest collection of film scripts, by Patrick Kurp, Schenectady Gazette. You can search the Motion Picture Division Film Script Index in any of the following categories: film title, film title in English, , alternate film title, country, writer's last name, director's last name, year, manufacturer, and exchange.
- UCLA Film & Television Archive - "Containing over 220,000 films and television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage, we are the largest university-held moving-image archive in the world." (University of California, Los Angeles). You can search their catalog of holdings.
- University of Virginia Library Video Collection - First select Search the library catalog for videos, then select Catalog Access Only (open to all).
- Little Movies: Prolegomena for Digital Cinema - Lev Manovich
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA)
- Los Angeles Times
- 24 Images - Quebec. ISSN: 0707-9389
- American Cinematographer: the International Journal of Film & Digital Production Techniques - Published by the American Society of Cinematographers, there is an online archive.
- Animation Journal
- Bright Lights Film Journal - Published quarterly in Portland, Oregon by Gary Morris and Gregory Battle (ISSN: 0147-4049).
- Cahiers du Cinema
- Cineaste
- Cufts Journal Search - Search for title keywords such as film, movie, cinema, motion pictures, Hollywood etc.
- e-Cahiers du Cinema
- Empire
- Film Comment - Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Film Dienst
- Film History: An International Journal
- Film Ireland - "Published bi-monthly by Filmbase centre for film and video." With Archives
- Film Review - ISSN: 0957 1809
- Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture - Quarterly
- In Cinemas
- Journal of Film Preservation - International Federation of Film Archives
- Journal of Popular Film & Television - Old Dominion University
- Literature Film Quarterly
- Millimeter: the Professional Resource for Production and Post
- Moving Image - Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) (E-ISSN: 1542-4235 Print ISSN: 1532-3978). Published by the University of Minnesota Press.
- Positif: Revue Mensuelle de Cinéma
- Post Script: Essays in film and the humanities - ISSN: 0277-9897. Published by Texas A&M University
- Screen - ISSN: 0036-9543. "Leading international journal of academic film and television studies. From video art to popular television, from Hollywood to Hong Kong, from art cinema to British film finance, Screen authors cover a wide range of issues, both contemporary and historical, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Each quarterly issue combines substantial scholarly essays with reports and debates on conferences and current research, along with book reviews." See also University of Glasgow page.
- Sight & Sound - British Film Institute
- Masters of Cinema - "Collating and disseminating information for discerning cinephiles the world over." Jan Bielawski, Doug Cummings, R. Dixon Smith, Trond S. Trondsen, and Nick Wrigley are the curators. Individually they also maintain related sites Nostalghia.com - An Andrei Tarkovsky Information Site, Robert Bresson, Carl Theodor Dreyer and ozuyasujiro.com: a Yasujiro Ozu Resource.
- MediaRights - Social issue documentaries and advocacy videos, organized by category.
- MetaCritic - Scores movie reviews
- Modern History in the Movies - Part of Paul Halsall's Internet History Sourcebooks Project. There are also sections on Ancient History in the Movies and Medieval History in the Movies.
- Le Monde: Critiques cinéma
- Motion Picture and Television Reading Room of the Library of Congress
- Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
- Motion Picture Editors Guild
- MCN: Movie City News - David Poland
- Movie Mistakes - Jon Sandys compiles errors in movies e-mailed to him. A similar site is Nitpickers.
- Movie Poster Database - Chisholm Larsson Gallery
- Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE) - Links to reviews for over 70,000 titles.
- MovieMaker Magazine - Interviews, links to film festivals
- Movies Unlimited - "Movie collector's website"
- Movietone
- MIAS: Moving Image Archive Studies - UCLA
- Moving Image Collections - "Integrated online catalog of moving images, with an archive directory and links to resources on moving images and moving image preservation."
- Museum of the Moving Image
- National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) - San Francisco
- National Board of Review of Motion Pictures - Their Annual Awards are announced in December.
- National Center for Jewish Film
- National Film Archive of India
- National Film Board of Canada | Office National du Film du Canada - Provides a searchable database of a collection of over 10,000 titles, including a French Film Collection.
- National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress - Provides a list of Films Selected
- National Film School of Denmark / Den Danske Filmskole
- National Museum of Photography, Film & Television - Bradford, Yorkshire
- National Portrait Gallery - London. Has a Picture Library Search in which you can search for artist, sitter of by title or by NPG number. (In Advanced Search you can restrict your search to images available on web site.) There is an alphabetical list of artists, as well as an alphabetical list of sitters. Film-related portraits include Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, Nicolas Jack Roeg, and Michael Caine.
- National Society of Film Critics
- New England Film Magazine - Provides News, Events and an archives.
- New Line Cinema
- New York Film Academy
- New York Film Critics Circle - With information on members and Awards by year and category back to 1935.
- New York Metro: Movies - New York Magazine
- New York Times: Movies - Includes critics choices of The 1,000 Best Movies Ever Made, Current Releases and 20 Years of NYT Reviews where you can "browse or search more than 15,000 New York Times movie reviews. Included in the free review archive are all films reviewed since 1983, reviews of all Best Picture Academy Award winners, as well as a selective list of the 1,000 Best Movies. An archive of film reviews since 1996 includes video clips from selected films. Registration is required, but it's free.
- New Yorker: The Current Cinema
- Search
- The Film File - Nearly 2,000 short reviews of film which you can browse chronologically or by title.
- Goings On About Town: Movies - Anthony Lane, David Denby and Michael Sragow are film critics for the magazine.
- Online Only - In Fade to Black (13 August 2007) David Denby talks talks with Blake Eskin about Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni who both died on July 30th, 2007.
- Life and Letters The Real McKee: Lessons of a Screenwriting Guru - By Ian Parker, New Yorker, October 20, 2003. Profile of Robert McKee, screenwriting instructor and author of Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting (you can search inside this book at Amazon.com)
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- North West Museums Service
- Official Preston Sturges Site - Biography, filmography, photo gallery, excerpts from screenplays, and links to other resources.
- OffLine - Nationally-funded (NEA) arts organization, television screening, and distributor of independently produced films and videos based in Seattle and New York.
- Owens Library Movie Reviews: Movie Reviews & where to find them - A useful guide compiled by Joyce A. Meldrem, a librarian at Northwest Missouri State University.
- Open Video Project - "Shared digital video collection."
- Origins of American Animation - Twenty-one films and two fragments from the Library of Congress include examples of clay, puppet, and cut-out animation and span the years 1900 to 1921. (Available as MPEG, Quicktime, and videostreaming versions.)
- P.O.V. Interactive - "Public television series created to showcase independent non-fiction films." The Searchable Film Database has 14 years of P.O.V.
- Premiere - "Interactive movie magazine."
- Princeton University: Web Media - Includes a March 13, 2003 lecture (1:21:40) by New Yorker film critic David Denby - "Do Movies have a Future?"
- Producers Guild of America - There are annual Producers Guild Awards
- Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers - National Film Preservation Board (Library of Congress)
- Razzies - Golden Raspberry Award Foundation has 503 voting members (critics, filmgoers, people in the entertainment business) who select worst picture, actor, director, screenplay etc. With Nomination Press Release.
- Reel.com - "Planet's biggest movie store" with videos for sale and for rent.
- Reel Classics - Sections on
Actresses and Actors with biographies, filmographies, photographs and posters.
- Reel Reviews - Podcasts by Michael W. Geoghegan
- ReelViews: Movie Reviews and Criticism by James Berardinelli
- Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM ) - With Archives
- Netflix
- Blockbuster
- Facets Multimedia
- Cafe DVD
- Wal-Mart
- DVD Avenue
- QuikFliks - Soon to become Gameznflix
- Research Guide to Film Studies - Yale University Library
- Reviews of Japanese Films - "Collection of reviews and articles on recent Japanese films written by Aaron Gerow for the Daily Yomiuri, a national daily that is published in English by one of Japan's largest newspapers, the Yomiuri Shimbun"
- Roger Ebert on Movies - Chicago Sun-Times
- Roland Collection of Videos & Films on Art - "Work of 230 film makers from 25 different countries and consists of more than 640 films and videos on art available worldwide."
- Rotten Tomatoes.com - Created by movie-buff Senh Duong in 1998, the site has a database with more than more than 127,000 titles and 644,000 review links.
- Sarah Zupko's Movie House
- Scorelogue - Film and television music, with interviews, news and audio clips. Library, Baruch College, CUNY.
- Scout 911 - Service designed to provide film industry professionals quick access to a broad catalogue of film locations in the greater los Angeles area. You can search by region or keyword. For example, a search for vista retrieves 108 results, pools retrieves 77 and beach retrieves 211.
- Screen Actors Guild - See also the Screen Actors' Guild Awards
- SCREENsite - Resources for the study of film and television provided by theTelecommunication and Film Department at the University of Alabama.
- Silent Era: The silent film website - Carl Bennett. The Progressive Silent Film List "is a growing online collection of information on silent era films culled from our offline database of information on more than 21,000 silent and sound films produced from 1888 through the end of 1929." There are Filmographies for actors, actresses and directors.
- Silent Movies - Glen Pringle
- Silents Majority: the On-line Journal of Silent Film - Diane MacIntyre and Spike Lewis
- Skinema: Dermatology in the Cinema - Dermatologist Vail Reese has collected examples of skin conditions featured in movies.
- Small movies - John Adair's site on 8mm home movies.
- Society for Cinema & Media Studies - Provides a list of SCMS Award Winners
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
- South East Film and Video Archive (SEFVA
- Spout - Movie recommendation site.
- Streaming Cinema
- Dreamworks
- Focus Features - Specialty films unit of Universal Pictures
- Fox Movies
- Fox Searchlight
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- Miramax Films
- New Line Cinema
- Paramount Pictures
- Pixar Animation Studio
- Sony Pictures
- Touchstone Pictures
- Universal Studios
- Walt Disney Pictures
- Warner Bros.
- Sundance Channel
- Sundance Festival - Held annually in January in Park City, Utah. You can View Films including the twelve minute Death to the Tinman directed by Ray Tintori.
- Sundance Institute
- Swiss Films - The Swiss Film Prize is awarded annually in January.
- Tarlton Law Library - University of Texas at Austin. The Law in Popular Culture Collection features a list of the 500+ movies in its collection of films with legal themes.
- Telefilm Canada — Téléfilm Canada
- Thomas A. Edison Papers - Rutgers University project has a section on Motion Picture Catalogs with a guide to the collection which gives a historical overview of the early motion picture industry.
- Time Magazine: Movies
- TSR Archives (Les Archives de la TSR) - Genève. Swiss public broadcasting. Has clips of over 1100 interviews (primarily in French) including:
- Jean-Paul Belmondo - by Claude Mossé, 1 October 1961 [9:11]
- Federico Fellini (1920-1993) - by François Challet, Gilbert Bovay, 12 June 1960 [4:19] (In French and Italian)
- Fernandel (Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin) (1903-1971) - 21 May 1966 [6:01]
- Jean-Luc Godard (1930-) - by Christian Defaye, 28 May 1990 [5:27]
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) - by Rodolphe-M. Arlaud, 24 May 1966 [4:53]
- Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977) - by Jo Excoffier, 30 August 1958 [26:08]
- Romy Schneider (1938-1982) - by Georges Kleinmann, 19 February 1962 [3:17]
- Alain Tanner (1929-) - by Rodolphe Arlaud, 17 October 1964 [1:48]
- Jacques Tati (1907-1982) - 29 December 1967 [5:43]. Also known as Jacques Tatischeff.
- Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) - by Georges Kleinmann, 20 October 1961 [9:13]
- Agnes Varda - by Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud, 23 January 1965 [5:57]
- Turner Classic Movies
- TV Guide Online: Movies - Reviews, news, interviews and a searchable database of over 35,000 titles and biographies.
- UCLA Film & Television Archive - "Containing over 220,000 films and television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage, we are the largest university-held moving-image archive in the world." (University of California, Los Angeles)
- University of California, Berkeley Media Resources Center
- Movie Database - A search for the director Truffaut, for example, retrieves records for 20 of his films, with bibliography. Browse movies by genres, themes and language / country.
- documentaries
- Television Programs and Commercials
- film studies resources
- bibliographies and tull-text articles
- Film and Video Distributor Database
- Urbanworld - Features the works of work of black, Hispanic and Asian filmmakers. Sponsors of the annual Urbanworld Film Festival, August 1-5 in New York City.
- USA Today: Movies
- Variety Magazine: Film - See also Reviews
- Shape Of The Moon - Documentary directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich
- Videoflicks - Online store for videos and dvds.
- Village Voice: Film
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection - University of Georgia Libraries
- Washington Post: Movies - See Recently Released Videos.
- Who's Who of Victorian Cinema - Created by Stephen Herbert and Luke McKernan, the site "features 300 biographies of those who, behind and in front of the camera, played a significant part in creating the phenomenon of moving pictures. It is based on the book Who's Who of Victorian Cinema, published by the British Film Institute in 1996."
- Wired: Hollywood Tech - Wired's collection of news stories about creative and entertaining applications for digital film and video, computer-generated animation, webcasting, and other new media.
- WNYC Movie Review Archive - Owen Gleiberman's weekly reviews go back to 1999.
- Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide - Philip McEldowney
- Women in Film - Professional organization founded in Los Angeles in 1973.
- Women's Entertainment
- Writers Guild of America - The Screen Credits Manual provides definitions of the terms used in the Guild Policy on Credits.
- Yahoo! Movies - Searchable database. See also their Yahoo! Movies and Films and Academy Awards pages.
- Yale Library Research Guide for Film Studies
- Zeitgeist Films - Independent film distributor.
- YouTube - Website introduced in December 2005. Although at first glace it appears to be primarily a video site (and here is inserted a caution to parents that you may see some stuff you don't want your kids to see), it's also a rich resource for music. Ken Tucker talks about YouTube in Now, Video Resurrects the Radio Star, Fresh Air from WHYY, February 15, 2006. He mentions a clip of Wilson Pickett singing Midnight Hour. Try a search for Hard Times (Come Again No More) with Rufus Wainwright, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and Emmylou Harris.