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All Movie Guide

http://www.allmovie.com/

Searchable database of movie-related information. Users can search for plots, people and movies as well as browse sections devoted to movie news, new releases, glossary of terms and more.

Author: All Media Guide (amg@allmusic.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

AlloCiné

http://www.allocine.fr/actus/

"AlloCiné is a French language entertainment information Web site for moviegoers."

Author: AlloCine

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: France

American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Movies

http://afi.100movies.com/

"This is the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies, selected by AFI's blue-ribbon panel of more than 1,500 leaders of the American movie community. Click on movie titles to find out more" about each film.

Author: American Film Institute

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

The Art Historians' Guide to the Movies

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~eliason/ahgttm.htm

"The Art Historians' Guide to the Movies is a record of appearances of and references to famous works of art and architecture in the movies. It is intended to be a source for teachers of art history who are considering showing clips or entire films as part of their presentation of the traditional arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture."

Author: Craig Eliason (eliason@eden.rutgers.edu)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts

Asian American Film (AAF)

http://www.asianamericanfilm.com/

"The purpose of AsianAmericanFilm.com is to build an engaged, involved, active, and excited audience for Asian American films." The site includes reviews, news, a film database, a collection of short Asian-American films online.

Author: Greg Pak

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American

Asian Film Connections

http://www.asianfilms.org/

Site dedicated to comtemporary cinema in China, India, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Each regional section consists of background and analysis, highlights from recent feature films, lists of award-winning films and leading directors, and articles about cultural context with suggestions for creating educational curricula.

Author: University of Southern California. Asia Pacific Media Center (shaoyis@usc.edu)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American

Bad Cinema Diary

http://www.cathuria.com/bcd/

"Bad Cinema Diary is an illustrated video guide to over 800 B-movies, independents, and micro-budget films from all genres & eras. We've got horror, sci-fi, classic "B" films, trashy exploitation, and ... the downright unexplainable." Movie reviews arranged alphabetically, and include original posters. 8 to 12 new entries added per month. Some articles on special bad movie genres: "Jekylls & Hydes", "Tarzan", "Beach Parties", etc.

Author: Bruce V. Edwards (cathuria@cathuria.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: B-movies

Boxoffice Online

http://www.boxoff.com/

"Special reports, cover stories, sneak previews, reviews, movies in the works and more from the film industry.

Author: RLD Communications, Inc. (boxoffice@earthlink.net)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Reviews; News

British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

The British Board of Film Classification is an independent non-governmental body that decides the ratings for movies and videotapes (and some video games). The site includes a detailed history of the ratings, including examples; a list of recent decisions; details about the classification process; more.

Author: British Board of Film Classification (webmaster@bbfc.co.uk)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Censor

The British Film Institute (BFI)

http://www.bfi.org.uk/

The BFI offers a huge range of servicesboth for the general public and for organisations with an interest in film or television. These are just some of them:it runs the UK's National Film Theatre, supports cinemas UK-wide and runs the London Film Festival, and also support film festivals UK-wide. In addition, the BFI preserves the UK's film and TV heritage, encourages life-long learning about the moving image and it is an authoritative source of information on film and television.Its excellent Web site offers news about film events in the UK, as well as links, among others, to its library and archive collections, films playingin the UK, BFI publications and issues of the film magazine Sight and Sound.

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: film; televison

Cannes International Film Festival

http://www.festival-cannes.org/

"Relive 50 years of cinema's most prestigious competition thanks to the offivial database of the Cannes Film Festival. The history section recounts cinema saga from the Palace to the Croisette. 'Fifty-One Years of Awards' presents all the official awards for every section. The site's search engine gives you quick access to 22,000 people profiles, 5000 films, and 800 honours given outsince 1946." The site is available in English or French.

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Coming Attractions

http://corona.bc.ca/films/

News and rumor about upcoming films in various stages of development. You can browse by genre, stage of development, or alphabetically.

Author: Corona Productions (webmaster@corona.bc.ca)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: News

Cybercinema

http://128.174.194.59/cybercinema/

"An Interactive Site Devoted to the History of Computers and Artificial Intelligence in Film." Categorized by decade and by topic, this site contains essays discussing the uses and portrayals of computers and artificial intelligence in movies. Includes synopses and still photos from each of the films discussed.

Author: Matthew Hurt and Melanie Creel (mhurt@uiuc.edu)

Subjects:

Computers & Internet

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; AI

Disney A-Z - Archives

http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/archives/index.html

This site contains information on all the movies and characters created by the Walt Disney Company (both live action and animated), gathered from the Disney archives. Images, dates, and lists of cast members or voice actors are all provided. This site uses frames.

Author: The Walt Disney Company

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies--Genres--Animation

Keywords: Cartoons

The Doyle Bluffs Movie Review

http://www.doylebluffs.com/

"You don't have to live in the city or go to a fancy school to know how to watch movies. Gomer and Ira have been watching movies for years. They call them as they see them. Kick off your shoes and stay for a while." An alternative source for movie reviews. Searchable index and unique rating system.

Author: Ira Crabtree and Gomer Hinkle (webmaster@doylebluffs.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: movie reviews; film reviews

Drew's Scripts-O-Rama

http://www.script-o-rama.com/

An "index of movie and television scripts available on the Internet." Includes links to scripts and transcripts of movies and television shows as well as unproduced scripts.

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Entertainment & Leisure--Television

Keywords: Scripts; Transcripts; Screenplays

Edgar Governo, Historian of Things That Never Were

http://www.cyberspc.mb.ca/~arphaxad/history.html

Links to timelines, chronologies, and histories of fictional worlds. Lightly annotated, divided up by medium (television, movies, books, comics). Among the topics covered are Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, and James Bond.

Author: Edgar Governo (arphaxad@cyberspc.mb.ca)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Entertainment & Leisure--Television--Genres

Keywords: Fictional History; Timelines

80's Movies Gateway

http://www.fast-rewind.com/

Information about the popular movies of the 1980s, with information and commentary, Weblinks, news (including DVD release info) and more.

Author: Fast-Rewind Web Sites (webmaster@fast-rewind.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

FANDOM - The Entertainian

http://www.fandom.com/entertainian/

News, reviews, and commentary from the world of the cinema, plus discussion forums and Web links. "A must see for all die hard movie fans. Daily updates from Ian Ebright and his staff including movie news and rumors, exclusive Insider scoops, reviews for the latest films and in-depth analysis on Hollywood trends and filmmaking. In addition, there are first look photos from upcoming films, interviews with actors and filmmakers, and more.

Author: Ian Ebright (ian@fandom.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

The Fennec Awards Database

http://awards.fennec.org/

Lists the winners and nominees for various film/movie awards, from the Oscars and Golden Globe awards to vaious Guild awards and festival honors.

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Film Experts

http://members.tripod.com/~olnot/index-4.html

"There are those of us who like to see films, discuss them and even take it one step further by studying them....And then there are those individuals who wish to take on the task of producing them. With this in mind REA Film has established a team of U.S. and International film experts who wish to share their expertise by answering your questions ranging from the history of film to the workings of the motion picture industry. " Also features a best film site of the week.

Author: REA Film Corp (reafilm@hotmail.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies--Film Making

Keywords: Film Production

The Film Festivals Server

http://www.filmfestivals.com/

Features coverage of current and past film festivals around the world, film reviews, and a searchable listing of all film festivals from 1995 to the present.

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Film Festivals

Film.com

http://www.film.com/

A film forum, which features news, reviews, film festival information, and a film discussion message board. Searchable.

Author: Point of Presence Company

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: News; Reviews; Festivals

Film100

http://www.film100.com/

Biographies and timelines for the 100 "most influential in the history of the movies".

Author: The Film 100

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Reference--Biographies--Entertainers

Keywords: Biographies

FilmWise

http://www.filmwise.com/

FilmWise features "movie quotes, unique text and visual quizzes, contests and the infamous Invisibles," quizzes which challenge you to identify characters who've been removed from film stills -- except for their clothes.

Author: FilmWise (feedback@filmwise.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Games

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: movie trivia

Golden Globe Awards

http://www.goldenglobes.org/

This site has current and past Golden Globe Award winners for motion pictures and television as chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. There's also a brief blurb on each actor or actress who has won the Cecil B. deMille Award.

Author: Hollywood Foreign Press Association (hfpa95@aol.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Entertainment & Leisure--Television

Keywords: awards

The Greatest Films

http://www.filmsite.org/

Site specializing in classic Hollywood films with detailed overviews of many of the greatest films in cinematic history. Features 100 selected greatest films including greatest moments, famous scenes, a famous film quotes quiz & hundreds of vintage movie posters. With a special section on film genres and links to major film search engines.

Author: Tim Dirks (tdirks@filmsite.org)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Hidden Features

http://dvdreview.com/html/hidden_features.shtml

Many DVD movie discs are graced with hidden features. This page is dedicated to revealing the so called ³Easter Eggs² on currently available discs so that users can find the special features that may not be obvious. Users can also submit their own findings.

Author: DVD Review (eggs@dvdreview.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

The Internet Movie Database (IMDB)

http://us.imdb.com/

Aka Cardiff's Movie Database Browser, this searchable database contains information on individual films, actors, directors, composers, and genres. Also has a special section on Academy Award winners and nominees. This is probably the best place to look first for movie information.

Author: The Internet Movie Database Ltd (feedback@imdb.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Entertainment & Leisure--Television

Keywords: Actors; Directors; Filmography; Biography; Oscars

Mobsters.tv

http://www.mobsters.tv/

This site talks about "Famous Mobsters of Filmland, TV-land, and Gangland."

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Entertainment & Leisure--Television

Keywords: mobsters; history; TV; film; characters

Motion Picture

http://www.tvguide.com/movies/

Features movie industry news, reviews of new films, a database of "40,000+ titles and bios and 750,000+ filmographies," features and interviews, video charts, and more.

Author: iGUIDE, Inc. (Email: info@iguide.net)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

The Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive

http://www.mptv.net/main/main_elements/mainpage.htm

"This site contains images owned and/or represented by the Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive Inc. (MPTV) - home to over 23,000 classic images dating from the 1910's to the present." You can search for and view images online, but you must obtain the proper rights if you wish to make further use of the images.

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Entertainment & Leisure--Television

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts--Photography

Movie Quotes Browser

http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Quotes/

Browse for movie quotes by movie title or do a keyword search.

Author: Internet Movie Database (help@imdb.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Reference--Quotations

Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE)

http://www.mrqe.com/

A vast index of movie reviews from a broad variety of sources. All reviews are available full text, and each movie is also linked to the appropriate page in the the internet movie database

Author: 144574 Canada, Inc. (cinema@mrqe.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Arts & Humanities--Culture--Criticism

Keywords: Reviews

Movie Terminology Glossary

http://us.imdb.com/Glossary/

"Welcome to the Internet Movie Database's online film glossary. Here, you will find definitions of terms and phrases frequently used in the world of movies, film, acting, and cinemagoing."

Author: The Internet Movie Database Ltd (feedback@imdb.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Film; Dictionary; Movie; Glossary; Terminology

Movie Trivia

http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/FAQ/movies/trivia-faq

A very large (over 550K!) FAQ style text file of movie trivia, in-jokes, cameos, etc. (last updated in 1996)

Author: Murray Chapman (muzzle@imdb.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Reference--Trivia

Keywords: Trivia; Jokes; Cameos; FAQ

MovieLink

http://www.movielink.com/

"America's source for movie information, showtimes, previews, and even tickets."

"As America's on-line source for movie information, MovieLink provides you with movie showtimes for all theatres in many major cities. MovieLink also gives you the ability to purchase tickets in advance for many of these theatres using your credit card.

MovieLink also offers lots of additional movie-related information in the MovieLink Cafe: movie synopses courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, movie posters and downloadable trailers, a Parents' Rating Guide provided by the Motion Picture Association of America explaining why particular movies have been given their ratings, information on upcoming releases, Hollywood news, a store with merchandise from all your favorite movies and television shows, and an area where you can chat with other avid moviegoers."

Author: Moviefone (comments@moviefone.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Movies; Showtimes; New Releases; Tickets; Movie Reviews

The Movies Cliches List

http://www.moviecliches.com/

List of movie cliches, organized in alphabetical categories, such as "asteroids", "money", "villains", etc. List of top grossing movies and movies with alternate versions.

Author: Giancarlo Cairella (ertigo@like.it)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Scripts; Cliches

Native Actor Database (NADB)

http://www.spiderandi.com/nadb/nadb.htm

The Native Actor Database (NADB) is a source for Native American Actors in Film and Television. The database lists biographical information about actors, writers and filmmakers, as well as information about awards, films, theatre, music and television related to Native American topics and people.

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Native American

Keywords: Movies

The Oracle of Bacon

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/

"This is the most comprehensive version of the Kevin Bacon game on the web. The object of the game is to start with any actor or actress who has been in a movie and connect them to Kevin Bacon in the smallest number of links possible. Two people are linked if they've been in a movie together. We do not consider links through television shows, made-for-tv movies, writers, producers, directors, etc."

Author: Brett Tjaden and Glenn Wasson (oracle@virginia.edu)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Games; Baconizer

Oscar.Com

http://www.oscar.com/

"The official Academy Awards website." Includes Oscar news, rules, and a searchable database of Oscar winners and nominees.

Author: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (ampas@oscars.org)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Academy Awards; Oscars

Screen Source

http://www.amug.org/~scrnsrc/

"Guide to movies and TV facts past/present/future, with graphics, celebrity addresses, merchandise, promotions, and other info."

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Entertainment & Leisure--Television

Keywords: Episode Guides

ScreenSite

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/

ScreenSite is dedicated to facilitating the study of film and TV. Stressing the teaching and research of film and television, it is designed for educators and students. ScreenSite is also available in Spanish, French, Dutch, and Swedish versions. The site contains four main sections; Education, Research, Film/TV Production, and Miscellanea, as well as a separate interaction section with an e-mail discussion group, a chat room and a usenet style discussion area.

Author: Jeremy Butler (jeremy@tcf.ua.edu)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Film; Television; Film/TV Production

Silent Film Sources

http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/

Lists the availability of silent films in the U.S. and gives contact information for vendors. A monthly news column of new releases. Silent films on video, laserdisc, DVD, 16mm and 35mm. A sister site The Silent Film Bookshelfhas full text articles about film production in the silent movie era.

Author: David Pierce (sunrise@dc.infi.net)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

The Silents Majority

http://www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/indexold.htm

"The Silents Majority Classic Film Fan Club is dedicated to keeping theart of silent film alive. It is also dedicated to posthumously reactivating the careers of the great artists of the silent screen." Includes a wealth of information, including biographical information on Producers, Directors, Writers, Cinematographers and Designers, Featured Stars, Supporting Players and Character Performers.

Author: Diane MacIntyre (mdle@primenet.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Silent Films; Biographies

Stumped at the Video Store

http://centerstage.net/stumped/

Online version of the Chicago free monthly publication. Each issue has reviews of currently available videotapes, as well as articles about the movies. The site includes back issues back to January 1998 and includes a movie review archive.

Author: Nitrinium Creations (stumped@centerstage.net)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Film

Teen Movie Critic

http://www.dreamagic.com/roger/teencritic.html

This database of movie reviews by the teen move critic and his guest reviewers is a resource for teenagers or parents interested in the views of a younger audience.

Author: Roger Davidson (magic@skypooint.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Arts & Humanities--Culture--Criticism

Social Sciences--People by Age Group--Teens

Keywords: Reviews; Teenagers

U.S. National Film Registry -- Titles

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/clamen/misc/movies/NFR-Titles.html

"In 1988, the (United States) Library of Congress established the National Film Registry, to preserve film deemed 'culturally, historically, or esthetically important.' 25 films have been added to the registry each year since. Herein is the complete list of those films so honoured to date."

Author: Stewart M. Clamen

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Keywords: Library; Preservation; Government; United States

WebMovie

http://www.webmovie.com/

WebMovie is a state by state index to movie production services. This reosurce also includes a guide to other film and video resources and links to reviews, webzines focusing on movies and film and video news.

Author: Phil Flora (info@webmovie.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies--Film Making

Keywords: Production; Reviews

What A Character!

http://www.what-a-character.com/

A Web site devoted to character actors ­ those actors you see frequently in movies and television shows, but who haven't reached major celebrity status. Each actor's profile includes a photo, a short biography and a complete filmography of movies, TV series, and TV guest appearances. This site is searchable and also has several indexes (actors' names, age, film, TV series, TV guest appearances.)

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Entertainment & Leisure--Television

Reference--Biographies--Entertainers

Keywords: Character actors; Celebrities; Bit part; Supporting; Guest stars

WPA Film Library

http://www.mpimedia.com/wpa/index.html

"The WPA Film Library was founded in 1987 by independent producers, as a repository of archival and stock footage for our own documentary programming. Since becoming a part of the MPI Media Group in 1989, our ties to the production community have become even stronger, and our holdings have grown to more than 50,000 hours of footage. "

Author: MPI Media Group (dparadiso@mpimedia.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts

Keywords: Documentary; Film; Archives

Yahoo! Movies

http://movies.yahoo.com/

Information about new and upcoming releases, movie industry news, box office results, actor and actress links, and a searchable database of showtimes.

Author: Yahoo! Inc.

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Zap2it.com

http://www.zap2it.com

"On Zap2it.com, you'll find local movie, TV and Internet listings to help you make those entertainment choices. You'll also find information about your favorite stars, movies and TV shows in one place. Zap2it.com -- Your Guide to What's Onscreen - TV, Movies, Internet!" Also television and movie industry news.

Author: Tribune Media Services

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Movies

Entertainment & Leisure--Television

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