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Online Film Festival Pages
The Online Film Festival Index Page includes
several festivals a-building, plus there are these stand-alone festival pages:
Afro-American Film Festival Page
Atomic Film Festival Page
Ayn Rand Film Festival Page
Films Noir Festival Pages
Gangster Film Festival Page
Hollywood Film Festival Page
Movie Musicals Film Festival Pages
Muscle-Head Film Festival Page
Pirate Film Festival Page
Political Film Festival Pages
'Rat Race' Film Festival Page
Road Movies Film Festival Page
Samurai Films Festival Page
'Shakespeare On Film' Festival Pages
Sherlock Holmes Film Festival Page
Sports Film Festival Page
War [and Anti-War] Movies Film Festival Pages
Beatnik Film Festival Page
'Biker Movies' Film Festival Page
Culver City, California Film Festival Page
Existentialist Film Festival Page
Human Rights Film Festival Page
Philosophy Film Festival Page
Railroad Film Festival Page
Western Movies Film Festival Pages
Oscar-winning Western Movies Page
— further planned festivals include Muscle-Head Film Festival,
Jazz Music Film Festival,
Teen/Surf Movie Festival, Labor Film Festival,
Native American Film Festival & Rock Music Film Festival
Movies & TV on DVD & Blu-ray Bargain Hunter Store at Amazon
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"The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films" [2002] Edited by Jay Carr Da Capo Press 9x6 pb [1/2002] for $11.67 |
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"The New York Times Guide To The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made" [1999] by Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin & others, edited by Peter M. Nichols St. Martin's 9x7¼ pb [2/2004] 1200 pages for $16.97 Three Rivers Press 9¼x7½ pb [11/99] for $17.00 N.Y. Times online list |
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"100 Years of Cinema" {posters} [1995] Compiled by Bruce Hershenson self-published 10½x8¼ pb [5/99] for $20.00 self-published hardcover [10/95] not available online |
Academy Award Winners
Oscars index page with books & video collections
Great Films Before The Academy Awards
1927-1931 •• 1931-1940 •• 1941-1950 •• 1951-1960
1961-1970 •• 1971-1980 •• 1981-1990 •• 1991-2000
2001 •• 2002 •• 2003 •• 2004 •• 2005
2006 •• 2007 •• 2008 •• 2009
Oscar-Winning Western Movies
American Film Institute Collections
A.F.I. Directors Profiles [1995-2002] on VHS or DVD
A.F.I. 100 Years Celebration on VHS or DVD
Other Awards
Golden Trailer Awards [May 2004 = #5]
Current Directors / Filmmakers
Films Coming Soon posters category at AllPosters.com
A.F.I. Directors Profiles [1995-2002] on VHS or DVD
Current Directors & Filmmakers Page
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writer-actor-director Woody Allen Pages
Coen Brothers: Joel & Ethan Page
actor-director Clint Eastwood Page
gadfly filmmaker Michael Moore Page
XXth Century Directors
Henry Hathaway
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Jerry Lewis
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Rouben Mamoulian
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Vincente Minelli
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...and many others
now on their own page
...plus individual pages for
Robert Altman [1925-2006] ¸ Ingmar Bergman [1918-2007] of Sweden
Mel Brooks ¸ George Cukor [1899-1983] ¸ Luis Buñuel [1900-83]
Frank Capra [1897-1991] ¸ Michael Curtiz [1886-1962]
Edward Dmytryk [1908-99] ¸ Clint Eastwood ¸ Federico Fellini [1920-93] of Italy
John Ford [1894-1973] ¸ Samuel Fuller [1912-97] ¸ Jean-Luc Godard of France
Howard Hawks [1896-1977] ¸ John Huston [1906-87] ¸ Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980]
Akira Kurosawa [1910-98] of Japan ¸ Fritz Lang [1890-1976] ¸ Ernst Lubitsch [1892-1947]
Jean-Pierre Melville [1917-73] of France ¸ Sam Peckinpah [1925-84]
Satyajit Ray [1921-92] of India ¸ Preston Sturges [1898-1959] ¸ Jacques Tati [1907-82] of France
François Truffaut [1932-84] of France ¸ Raoul Walsh [1887-1980] ¸ Orson Welles [1915-85]
Independent & Avant-Garde Filmmakers
John Cassavetes • Alex Cox • Maya Deren • Jim Jarmusch • Alejandro Jodorowsky •
Warren Miller • Godfrey Reggio • John Sayles • John Waters • and others...
now on their own page
...plus individual pages for
Robert Greenwald ¸ Michael Moore
Pioneers of the Cinema
Dorothy Arzner • Theodore W. Case • George Eastman • Wm. Friese-Greene
Louis Le Prince • Lumière Brothers • Georges Méliès
F.W. Murnau • Eadweard Muybridge • G.W. Pabst • Edwin S. Porter
Wm. Desmond Taylor • Erich von Stroheim • and others...
now on their own page
...plus Magic Lantern's individual pages for
Charlie Chaplin [1889-1977] ¸ Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
Sergei M. Eisenstein [1898-1948] ¸ D.W. Griffith [1875-1948]
Thomas H. Ince [1882-1924] ¸ Buster Keaton [1895-1966]
Harold Lloyd [1893-1971] ¸ Oscar Micheaux [1884-1951]
Hal Roach [1892-1992] ¸ Mack Sennett [1880-1960]
Foreign Directors, Auteurs & Actors
Foreign Cinema Page: click here
includes Pedro Almodóvar • Ingmar Bergman • Luis Buñuel •
Roman Polanski • Andrei Tarkovsky • and many others ...
Cinema of Asia Page: click here
includes mainland China, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand & R.O.C./Taiwan
Cinema of Canada Page: click here
Cinema of France Pages: click here
includes Jean-Paul Belmondo • Philippe de Broca • Jean-Luc Godard • Claude Lelouch •
Jean-Pierre Melville • Yves Montand • Jean Renoir • Jacques Tati • Jean-Louis Trintignant •
François Truffaut • Agnes Varda • and others ...
Cinema of Germany Page: click here
includes Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Werner Herzog • Klaus Kinski •
Leni Riefenstahl • Volker Schlöndorff • Wim Wenders • and others ...
Cinema of India Page: click here
includes Deepa Mehta • Satyajit Ray • and others ...
Cinema of Italy Page: click here
includes Antonioni • Bertolucci • de Sica • Fellini • Mastroianni • Rossellini •
Scola • Visconti • Zeffirelli • and others ...
Cinema of Japan Pages: click here
includes Samurai Films • Kiyoshi Atsumi • Hiroshi Inagaki • Juzo Itami • Akira Kurosawa •
Toshirô Mifune • Hayao Miyazaki • Kenji Mizoguchi • Tatsuya Nakadai • Yasujiro Ozu •
Takashi Shimura • Ken Takakura • Yoji Yamada • and others ...
Cinema of Mexico Page: click here
includes Pedro Armendáriz • Luis Buñuel • Cantinflas • Dolores del Rio • Guillermo del Toro •
Maria Félix • Emilio Fernández • Vicente Fernández • Gabriel Figueroa • Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez •
Arturo Ripstein • Ignacio López Tarso • and others ...
Movies: Great & Unsung
"Amadeus" •
"Annie Hall" •
"Bill and Coo" •
"Buckaroo Banzai" •
"Cutter's Way" •
"Do The Right Thing" •
"Do-Desu-Ka-Den" •
"Fritz The Cat" •
"Gigot" •
"The Gods Must Be Crazy" •
"Greed" [1924] •
"If I Had A Million" •
"King of Hearts" •
"Lemonade Joe" •
"The Madwoman of Chaillot" •
Neil Young's "Journey Through The Past" •
"Putney Swope" •
"Whistle Down The Wind" •
...and others
moved to its own page
My Ten Most-Favorite Films & Why
includes "Akahige" aka 'Red Beard' [1965], "2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968], "The Wild Bunch" [1969],
"Barry Lyndon" [1975], "Taxi Driver" [1976], "Apocalypse Now" [1979], "Reds" [1981], "Fitzcarraldo" [1982],
"Wings of Desire" [1987], "Faraway, So Close" [1993] & "Forrest Gump" [1994]
moved to its own page
Movie Series & Comedy Teams
Abbott & Costello
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Batman
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'Carry On' Series
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Dead End Kids / Bowery Boys
Francis the Mule
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Andy Hardy
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Indiana Jones
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Martin & Lewis
Monty Python
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Star Wars
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Superman
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and others...
are on the Movie Series & Comedy Teams Page
...plus individual pages for
James Bond
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Charlie Chan
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Laurel & Hardy
Little Rascals / Our Gang
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'Lord of The Rings'
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The Marx Brothers
Hammett's 'The Thin Man'
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The Three Stooges
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Zatôichi
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On Writing & Screenwriting Page
¯ Movie Music & Composers ¯
Movie Music & Composers page
browse Movie Soundtracks category at Amazon
Essential Soundtracks at Amazon
Essential Musicals On Film at Amazon
Movie Musicals Film Festival Pages
Film Genres
Afro-American Film Festival Pages
page one • books • filmmakers • links
on page two: actors & actresses • movie collections • docufilms • movie music
on page three: selected films & TV (chronological)
Gangster Movie Film Festival Page
books about gangster movies • gangster movie collections • gangster movies A-Z
Hispanic-American Cinema
main page • books • people • selected films
Simultaneous Bilingual Film Production
synopsis for screenplay "El Tigrón" by G.E. Nordell
Road Movies Film Festival Page
Silent & Sound Movie Serials Page
Martial Arts Films
Magic Lantern's Samurai Films Festival
Magic Lantern's 'Cinema of Asia' Page
Magic Lantern's 'Cinema of Japan' Page
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"Chasing Dragons: An Introduction To The Martial Arts Film" [2006] by David West I.B. Tauris 8½x5½ pb [12/2006] for $14.95 |
Films Noir
BlackHat Mystery Bookstore's Film Noir Festival Pages
Books on Film Noir
BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Raymond Chandler [1888-1959] Pages
Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961]Pages
Graphic Noir
BlackHat Mystery Bookstore's Frank Miller Page
The Western
Western Film Festival Pages
Books About Western Movies
Oscar-Winning Western Movies
'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
Billy the Kid Page
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Budd Boetticher: videos • IMDb listing
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'Hopalong Cassidy' Page
'The Cisco Kid' Page
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John Ford [1894-1973] Page
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Hoot Gibson [1892-1962] Page
Zane Grey [1872-1939] Pages +
Zane Grey Movies Pages
William S. Hart [1864-1946] Page
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'The Lone Ranger' Page
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Tom Mix [1880-1940] Page
Sam Peckinpah [1925-84] Page
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Randolph Scott [1898-1987] Page
Fred Thomson [1890-1928] Page
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John Wayne [1907-79] Page
Horror, Monster & Fantasy Movies
HorrorWood webzine & fansite
DLR's 'Online Dictionary of Hammer Horror' fansite [est. 2005]
Chris's world famous 'British Horror Films' website
"Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" [1948]
"Abbott & Costello Meet The Invisible Man" [1951]
"Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" [1953]
"Abbott & Costello Meet The Mummy" [1955]
"Carry On Screaming" [1966]
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"Horror 250 Movie Pack DVD Box Set" [2007] Ohmigod! 250 movies on 60 disks ! Mill Creek Ent. DVD [10/2007] 60 disks for $89.99 comprised of selections from these Mill Creek DVD box sets: Alien Worlds 20 Movie Pack, Apocalypse 20 Movie Pack, Bela Lugosi: Master of Horror 10 Movie Pack, Beyond The Grave 20 Movie Pack, Chilling 20 Movie Pack, Chilling Classics 50 Movie Pack, Fright Night 10 Movie Pack, Horror 100 Movie Pack, Horror Classics 50 Movie Pack, Monsters 20 Movie Pack, Night Screams 50 Movie Pack, Nightmare Worlds 50 Movie Pack, Sci-Fi Classics 100 Movie Pack, Strange Tales 20 Movie Pack, Tales of Terror 50 Movie Pack, Vampires & More! 20 Movie Pack, Warriors 50 Movie Pack & others |
 | "Dracula by Bram Stoker: Critical Insights" [2009]  Edited by Jack Lynch Salem Press library hardcover [9/2009] for $85.00 |
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"Hollywood Horror: From Gothic To Cosmic" [2005] by Mark A. Vieira Harry N. Abrams 12x9¼ hardcover [11/2003] for $32.85 |
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"Illustrated History of Movies Thru Posters #7: Horror Movie Posters" [1998] by Bruce Hershenson & Richard Allen self-published 10¾x8¾ pb [10/98] out of print/rare |
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"Creature Features: The Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Movie Guide" [1997] by John Stanley Berkley Trade 9x6 pb [8/2000] out of print/used Boulevard Books mass pb [2/97] out of print/used |
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"Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula From Novel To Stage To Screen" [1990] by David J. Skal Faber & Faber 8½x5¼ pb [10/2004] for $13.50 W.W. Norton pb [10/91] out of print/used W.W. Norton 10¼x8¾ hardcover [1/90] out of print/used |
Science Fiction Movies
Roaring Rockets - The Space Hero Files
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"SciFi Classics 50 Movie Pack DVD Box Set" [2004]
Mill Creek Ent. DVD box set [3/2004] 12 disks for $14.49 includes "The Amazing Transparent Man" [1960] starring Maguerite Chapman; "Assignment: Outer Space" aka 'Space Men' [1960] starring Rik Van Nutter; "The Atomic Brain" aka 'Monstrosity' [1964] starring Bradford Dillman; "Battle of The Worlds" [Italy 1961] starring Claude Rains; "Bride of The Gorilla" [1951] starring Raymond Burr & Barbara Payton; "Crash of The Moons" [1954] starring Richard Crane as TV's 'Rocky Jones, Space Ranger'; "Devil of The Desert vs. Son of Hercules" [Italy 1964] starring Kirk Morris; "First Spaceship On Venus" [1960] starring Yoko Tani; "Gamera The Invincible" [Japan 1966] starring Brain Donlevy; "Hercules Unchained" [Italy 1959] starring Steve Reeves & Sylva Koscina; "The Incredible Petrified World" [1957] |
| starring John Carradine; "Killers From Space" [1954] starring Peter Graves; "King of Kong Island" [Italy 1968] starring Brad Harris & Esmeralda Barros; "Laser Mission" [1990] starring Brandon Lee & Debi A. Monahan; "The Lost Jungle" [1934] starring Clyde Beatty; "Menace From Outer Space" [1956] starring Richard Crane as TV's 'Rocky Jones, Space Ranger'; "Mesa of Lost Women" [1953] starring Jackie Coogan; "Moon of The Wolf" [1972 TV movie] starring David Janssen; "Queen of The Amazons" [1947] starring Robert Lowery & Patricia Morison; "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians" [1964] starring Pia Zadora; "Son of Hercules: The Land of Darkness" [Italy 1963] starring Dan Vadis; "Teenagers From Outer Space" [1959] starring David Love & Dawn Bender; "Voyage To The Planet of Prehistoric Women" [1968] directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Mamie Van Doren; "Voyage to The Prehistoric Planet" [1965] starring Basil Rathbone & Faith Domergue; Roger Corman's "The Wasp Woman" [1960] starring Susan Cabot; "Zontar, The Thing From Venus" [1966 TV movie] starring John Agar – and dozens more! |
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"Tech-Noir: The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir" [2008] by Paul Meehan McFarland & Co. 10x7 hardcover [4/2008] for $55.00 |
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"Attack of The Sci-Fi Trivia" [2007] by Nick Lyons Ladder Press 9x6 pb [4/2007] for $14.99 |
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"Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and The Cinema" [2005] by Christopher Frayling Reaktion Books 9x6 pb [9/2006] for $15.96 Reaktion Books 9¼x6 hardcover [12/2005] for $35.00 |
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"The Science Fiction Film Reader" [2004] by Gregg Rickman Limelight Editions 9x6 pb [7/2004] for $15.61 |
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"Science Fiction Film" [2003] by J.P. Telotte Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [8/2003] for $28.49 Cambridge Univ Press 9½x6 hardcover [8/2003] for $85.00 |
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"The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies: From 1897 To The Present" [2001] by C. J. Henderson, Foreword by William Shatner often opinionated {per Amazon reviewers}, but lists 1300+ films Checkmark Books 10¾X8½ pb [8/2001] out of print/used Facts On File 11¼x8¾ hardcover [6/2001] out of print/used |
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Movie Stars & Unknowns
Actors & Movie Stars of Today Page
actor-director Clint Eastwood Page
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Actors and Others of Yesterday
Both known and lesser-known actors & actresses, from silents to recent times
– from Akim Tamiroff, thru many favorites, to Yakima Canutt
Actors: Stars & Unknowns [A to Z] Pages
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle [1887-1933] Page
Humphrey Bogart [1899-1957] Page
Douglas Fairbanks [1883-1939] Page
Edward R. Murrow [1908-65] Page
Randolph Scott [1898-1987] Page
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Actors of Asia
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Actors of France
Actors of Germany
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Actors of India
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Actors of Italy
Actors of Japan
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Actors of Mexico
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Other Foreign Actors
Miscellaneous Cinema Links
Midnight Palace - old movies, classic & obscure 1900-1955
Movies 4 Arabs
FilmJumper
Off Beat Cinema tv show [est. 1993]
Star du Ciné photos website
Danger & Despair [noir videos & 16mm]
Grapevine Video [Jack Hardy]
Em Gee Film Library [Murray Glass]
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