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blackfilm.com
Click on the logo on the main page to bypass registration (not required) and search this database of film reviews from African American perspectives. Also features full-length articles, news about video and DVD releases, as well as information about conferences, screenings, and other events.
http://www.blackfilm.com/
Topics: Black Resources, Film, Movies, & Video
Last updated Aug 25, 2004
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Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
Hundreds of thousands of entries provide detailed information for movies (in theaters, on video or DVD, and forthcoming), as well as television movies and series. "Awards and Reviews" provides reviews from authoritative sources such as the New York Times, Roger Ebert, and Slate, as well as reader-supplied evaluations. Movie information includes directors, producers, actors, plot summaries, character names, running times, trivia, soundtracks, release dates, box office grosses, alternate versions, Academy Awards and other awards information, and much more.
http://us.imdb.com/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Recreation
Last updated May 1, 2005
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Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA): Film Ratings
Contains a history and explanation of the MPAA rating system. Includes a database showing the ratings of movies from 1968 to the present. "The movie ratings system is a voluntary system operated by the MPAA and the National Association of Theater Owners."
http://www.mpaa.org/FilmRatings.asp
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Social Issues
Last updated Jan 22, 2006
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Frameline
Frameline is an organization that promotes "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer visibility through media arts." They are the producers of the annual International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Their site has a browsable index of over 200 queer-themed films that are available for rental or sale, which can be helpful in finding more obscure gay-themed films by independent artists.
http://www.frameline.org/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Film: Genres & Themes, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered People, Recreation, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment
Last updated Dec 22, 2008
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DEFA Film Library: Cinema of East Germany at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
DEFA's [(Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft)] Film Library "is the only archive and study center outside Europe devoted to the study of the cinema of the former GDR [German Democratic Republic] as well as films dealing with Eastern Germany since unification." The site features a list of available films, and a variety of teaching and resource materials, including bibliographies, information about DEFA film criticism, a list of archives and study centers, a discussion list, and related links. Searchable.
http://www.umass.edu/defa/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video
Last updated Sep 17, 2003
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Movie and Family Video Reviews
Movie and video reviews by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Office for Film and Broadcasting. The reviews feature the USCCB rating, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating, and a brief synopsis of the movie. New reviews are listed weekly and the archive is searchable and contains thousands of reviews. Includes "Top 10 Movie List (1965-2003)" and "Vatican Top 45 List."
http://www.nccbuscc.org/movies/
Topics: Christianity, Film, Movies, & Video, Film: Genres & Themes
Last updated Apr 25, 2004
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AsianAmericanFilm.com
"The purpose of AsianAmericanFilm.com is to build an engaged, involved, active, and excited audience for Asian American films." Reviews, news, events calendar, browsable film database, and Minute Movies , "supershort Asian American films online."
http://www.asianamericanfilm.com/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video
Last updated Apr 7, 2004
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One Ground: 4 Palestinian & 4 Israeli Filmmakers
Companion to a two-part 2003 exhibit "that addresses some of the metaphorical issues that come out of the politically charged region of Israel and Palestine." Features descriptions and representative images from the works of contemporary film and video artists, and dozens of historical images from the 1850s and early 20th century. Also includes an essay and dialog among the contemporary artists. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside.
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/oneground/
Topics: Photograph Collections: History, Wars & Conflicts
Last updated Aug 23, 2006
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Academy Award Winners
Contains "history and commentary on the Academy Awards from its early beginnings [1927] to the present." Features posters for the Best Picture winner of each year, lists of the most nominated people, best speeches, how to watch movies critically, and more.
http://www.filmsite.org/oscars.html
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Recreation
Last updated Feb 21, 2007
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Women Make Movies (WMM)
Home of the Women Make Movies catalog of films, which includes about five hundred "artistically excellent and compelling works that address both broad audiences as well as underserved constituencies." The catalog is categorized and annotated, browsable by subject, title, and filmmaker. The searchable catalog, related links (covering feminist film theory, bibliography, filmography, and individuals' sites), and screening news provide an excellent jumping-off point to the world of independent filmmaking by women.
http://wmm.com/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Recreation
Last updated Aug 25, 2004
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The Ultimate Film
"Spanning almost a century of cinema-going," this chart from November 2004 "is the definitive list of the all-time top 100 films based on UK cinema admissions estimates." Also includes a list of top directors and performers appearing in those films and a history of attending movies in the United Kingdom. From the British Film Institute (BFI).
http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Recreation
Last updated Dec 7, 2004
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
In addition to information about the Academy, find all the Oscars (Academy Awards) ever given (nominees as well as winners) from 1927 to the present, all the Scientific and Technical Awards from 1930 to the present, and history of the Oscar statuette. Searchable.
http://www.oscars.org/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Recreation
Last updated Feb 21, 2007
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Librarians in the Movies: An Annotated Filmography
This resource groups over 500 films into categories that include movies featuring librarians, movies with a library as a setting or with a librarian used as a "prop," movies in which a library or librarian is mentioned, and movies yet to be seen by the author in which a librarian is cast. Features a title index, a list of actors who have portrayed librarians, and a short bibliography of articles on the topic. Maintained by a librarian at Brigham Young University, Idaho.
http://emp.byui.edu/raishm/films/introduction.html
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Film: Genres & Themes, Librarianship, Notable People, Recreation
Last updated Oct 4, 2004
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The Journal of Religion and Film
This online journal "examines the description, critique, and embodiment of religion in film." Features scholarly articles and reviews about a wide range of popular movies from the United States and other countries. Browsable by journal issue, film, director, or author. From the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Department of Philosophy and Religion.
http://avalon.unomaha.edu/jrf/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Film: Genres & Themes, Magazines
Last updated Aug 10, 2009
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Blackflix.com
Entertainment news, movie reviews, biographies, interviews, film-festival calendars, commentary, and more about "Black stars, film makers, directors, writers and other Black film professionals." Includes a brief history and filmography of blaxploitation films.
http://www.blackflix.com/
Topics: Black Resources, Film, Movies, & Video, Film: Genres & Themes
Last updated Dec 6, 2005
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Jean-Luc Godard
Background information about Jean-Luc Godard, the French New Wave director of films such as "Breathless," "Weekend," "Band of Outsiders," and "Alphaville." Includes a biography, filmography, articles, and links to other resources (some in French) on the director. From the British Film Institute (BFI).
http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/godard/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, History By Place, Recreation
Last updated May 4, 2005
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An Interview With Russ Meyer
A 1995 article about filmmaker Russ Meyer, best know for his exploitation film "Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!" Also includes links to a 1974 interview and to related articles. Includes a few somewhat risqué images. From the Bright Lights Film Journal.
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/16/meyer.html
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Notable People, Recreation
Last updated Oct 2, 2004
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Digital Fritz Lang Papers
A collection of 20 short films by German-American film director Fritz Lang from 1938-1953, taken "as he toured around the American Southwest, capturing images of Tombstone Arizona, Death Valley California, a Hopi Native American Village and what is now the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona and the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. All of the films are without sound." From the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
http://ahc.uwyo.edu/onlinecollections/digital/lang/motionpictures.htm
Topics: Archives, Film, Movies, & Video, Recreation
Last updated Nov 3, 2004
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U.S. National Film Registry
The National Film Preservation Board was established in 1988 to choose up to 25 "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important films" each year that would "illustrate the vibrant diversity of American film-making." This site contains several lists browsable by title, date entered into registry, performer, or production year. From the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/film/filmnfr.html
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Internet, Recreation, Recreation, Web Design and Management
Last updated Aug 31, 2004
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The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
"This collection contains forty-five films of New York dating from 1898 to 1906." Includes information on pioneer cameramen of the time and the actuality film, essays "New York City at the Turn of the Century" and "America at the Turn of the Century," and selected bibliographies on New York history and early motion pictures. Searchable by keyword, and browsable by subject and film title. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Film: Genres & Themes, U.S. History By Place
Last updated Apr 7, 2004
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