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Major Resources

  • Cinema Studies Resources, from Academic Info.

  • CineMedia, film and media directory.

  • Film and Video Resources, from Galaxy.

  • Film Festivals, U.K.'s Film and Video Festivals Database.

  • The Internet Movie Database

  • Movie Guide, a part of the TV Guide Web Site.

  • Movie Review Query Engine

  • reel.com, film information resource.


    • Specific Sites

  • American Cinematographer Online Magazine

  • American Film Institute

  • AsianAmericanFilm.com

  • Australian Film Commission News

  • Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University.

  • blackfilm.com, database of film reviews from African American perspectives. Also features full-length articles as well as information about conferences, screenings, and other events.

  • British Film Institute

  • Cannes International Film Festival

  • Charlie Chaplin, from Monash University.

  • Chesterfield Film Company: Writers Project, offers screenwriting fellowships.

  • CineGuide, a critic's notebook.

  • Cinema: How are Hollywood Films Made?, educational exhibit at the Annenberg/CPB Projects Learner Online site.

  • Cinemaspace, from the Film Studies Program at UC Berkeley.

  • Cyber Film School, provides useful information on film producing, directing, writing, shooting and editing.

  • Directors Guild of America

  • Drew's Script-O-Rama, compilation of film and television scripts.

  • EarlyCinema.com, an introduction to the first decade of cinema.

  • FilmCritic.com

  • FilmLand, current film news.

  • The Film Maker's Home Pages

  • Film Music Society

  • Film 100, discusses the "100 most influential people in the history of cinema and describes of their accomplishments."

  • Film Scouts, "comprehensive" guide to motion pictures.

  • Film Site

  • Flicks Home Page with Patrick Stoner

  • Frameline Online, non-profit organization that provides funding, distribution, promotion, and exhibition of lesbian and gay film and video.

  • The "Greatest Films," including scenes and film quotations. Browsable by historical decades or genres.

  • Hitchcock, Alfred

  • Hollywood.com

  • IFP, the Independent Film Source.

  • indieWIRE, devoted to the world of independent filmmaking.

  • Jewish Film Archive Online

  • Kubrick, Multimedia Film Guide.
  • Kubrick on the Web

  • Latin American Cinema Home Page, from the University of Georgia.

  • LucasFilms's THX Division

  • MEDIA Salles, European movie database.

  • MetaCritic Film, reviews from a wide variety of publications.

  • Motion Picture and Television Reading Room, from the Library of Congress.

  • Motion Pictures Collections from the Library of Congress, 1870 - .

  • MovieFinder.com, service presented by E! Online.

  • Movie Review Query Engine

  • Movie Terminology Glossary, from the Internet Movie Database.

  • Movies Subject Index, from Nerd World Media Internet.

  • The National Film Preservation Board

  • New York Times Movie Reviews, free, but requires registration.

  • Pan African Film Art Festival (PAFF), established in 1992, PAFF is the largest festival in the United States dedicated to the exhibition of Black films.

  • Paramount Pictures

  • reel.com, a critical perspective on the world of film.

  • Roger Ebert on Movies, from the Chicago Sun Times.

  • The Silent Era

  • Silent Movies, maintained by Glen Pringle.

  • The UCLA Film and Television Archive, contains over 200,000 films and television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage.

  • Warner Brothers Movie Page

  • Yahoo! Movies

  • English Department, University of Kentucky.

    • This page was last updated 3 December 2004. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Brad Carrington at bcarring@uky.edu.

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