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Actors of Today & Yesterday

Online Film Festivals

Miscellaneous Links


"Substance separates film from movies."
— John Huston [1906-87]


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
Movie Musicals Film Festival Pages
Pirate Film Festival Page
Political Film Festival Pages
Samurai Films Festival Page
'Shakespeare On Film' Festival Pages
Sherlock Holmes Film Festival
Sports Film Festival Page
War [and Anti-War] Movies Film Festival Pages
Beatnik Film Festival
Culver City, California Film Festival
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

— further planned festivals include Muscle-Head Film Festival,
Jazz Film Festival, Teen/Surf Movie Festival, Labor Film Festival,
Native American Film Festival & Gangster Movies Festival


A List / 100 Essential Films  
"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
New York Times 1000   "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
100 Years of Cinema  
"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

Robert Greenwald  Page

gadfly filmmaker  Michael Moore  Page

Martin Scorsese  Page


XXth Century Directors
Henry Hathaway        Alfred Hitchcock        Stanley Kubrick    
Jerry Lewis        Ernst Lubitsch        Vincente Minelli    
Billy Wilder        ...and many others
now on their own page

...plus individual pages for

Robert Altman [1925-2006]        Frank Capra [1897-1991]        Edward Dmytryk [1908-99]

John Ford [1894-1973]        Samuel Fuller [1911-97]        Howard Hawks [1896-1977]

John Huston [1906-87]        Fritz Lang [1890-1976]        Sam Peckinpah [1925-84]

Preston Sturges [1898-1959]        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 • Thomas Alva Edison •
Wm. Friese-Greene • Louis Le Prince • Harold Lloyd • Lumi่re Brothers •
Georges M้li่s • Oscar Micheaux • F.W. Murnau • Eadweard Muybridge • G.W. Pabst •
Edwin S. Porter • Mack Sennett • Wm. Desmond Taylor • Erich von Stroheim • and others...
now on their own page

...plus individual pages for

Charlie Chaplin [1889-1977]        Sergei M. Eisenstein [1898-1948]

D.W. Griffith [1875-1948]        Thomas H. Ince [1882-1924]

       Buster Keaton [1895-1966]       

Hal Roach [1892-1992]        King Vidor [1894-1982]



Foreign  Directors,  Auteurs  &  Actors

Foreign  Cinema  Page:  click here
includes Pedro Almod๓var  •  Ingmar Bergman  •  Luis Bu๑uel  •
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  Page:  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  •
Fran็ois Truffaut  •  Agnes Varda  •  and others ...

Cinema  of  Germany  Page:  click here
includes Rainer Werner Fassbinder  •  Werner Herzog  •  Klaus Kinski  •
Leni Riefenstahl  •  Volker Schl๖ndorff  •  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  •
Toshir๔ 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 Armendแriz  •  Luis Bu๑uel  •  Cantinflas  •  Dolores del Rio  •  Guillermo del Toro  •
Maria F้lix  •  Emilio Fernแndez  •  Vicente Fernแndez  •  Gabriel Figueroa  •  Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez  •
Arturo Ripstein  •  Ignacio L๓pez 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"   •    "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    •    Batman    •    'Carry On' Series    •    Dead End Kids / Bowery Boys
•    Francis the Mule    • Andy Hardy    •    Indiana Jones    •    Martin & Lewis
•    Marx Brothers    •    Monty Python    •    Star Wars    •    Superman    •    and others...

are on the Movie Series & Comedy Teams Page

...plus individual pages for

James Bond        Charlie Chan        Laurel & Hardy        Little Rascals / Our Gang   
'Lord of The Rings'        Hammett's "The Thin Man"        The Three Stooges        Zat๔ichi

History  of  Cinema  Pages
History of Cinema Page
History of Radio & Television Page
Movie Palaces Page
Drive-In Movie Theaters Page
The Hollywood Blacklist
Movie Posters Page

Movie  Industry  Pages
Movie Industry Page
Cinema Reference & Technical Page
Film Businesses & Organizations
Cinematography Page
Animation Pages
New Mexico Movie Industry Page

On Writing & Screenwriting Page

Worldwide Film Festivals 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
on 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

Silent & Sound Movie Serials Page

Films  Noir
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    •    Budd Boetticher: videos • IMDb listing    •    'Hopalong Cassidy' Page
'The Cisco Kid' Page    •    John Ford [1894-1973] Page    •    Hoot Gibson [1892-1962] Page
Zane Grey [1872-1939] Pages + Zane Grey Movies Pages
William S. Hart [1864-1946] Page    •    'The Lone Ranger' Page    •    Tom Mix [1880-1940] Page
Sam Peckinpah [1925-84] Page    •    Randolph Scott [1898-1987] Page
Fred Thomson [1890-1928] Page    •    John Wayne [1907-79] Page

Hispanic-American  Cinema

now on its own topic page

Simultaneous Bilingual Film Production
synopsis for screenplay "El Tigr๓n" by G.E. Nordell

Horror,  Monster  &  Fantasy  Movies

HorrorWood webzine & fansite

Horror 250 Movie Pack DVD box set   "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

Hollywood Horror   "Hollywood Horror: From Gothic To Cosmic" [2005]
by Mark A. Vieira

Harry N. Abrams 12x9¼ hardcover [11/2003] for $32.85
Hershenson Vol 7: Horror Movie Posters   "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
Creature Features Movie Guide book by John Stanley   "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
Hollywood Gothic   "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

SciFi Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection DVD box set   "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!

Tech Noir by Paul Meehan  
"Tech-Noir: The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir" [2008]
by Paul Meehan

McFarland & Co. 10x7 hardcover [4/2008] for $55.00
Attack of Sci-Fi Trivia   "Attack of The Sci-Fi Trivia" [2007]
by Nick Lyons

Ladder Press 9x6 pb [4/2007] for $14.99
Mad, Bad & Dangerous book by Christopher Frayling   "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
Science Fiction Film Reader   "The Science Fiction Film Reader" [2004]
by Gregg Rickman

Limelight Editions 9x6 pb [7/2004] for $15.61
Science Fiction Film   "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
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies book by C. J. Henderson   "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

SciFlicks science fiction cinema



Movie  Stars  &  Unknowns

Actors  &  Movie  Stars  of  Today  Page

actor-director  Clint Eastwood  Page

Edward James Olmos  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

Magic Lantern's Humphrey Bogart [1899-1957] Page
Magic Lantern's Errol Flynn [1909-59] Page
Magic Lantern's Edward R. Murrow [1908-65] Page
Magic Lantern's Orson Welles [1915-85] Page

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Actors of Asia    •    Actors of Canada    •    Actors of France
Actors of Germany    •    Actors of India    •    Actors of Italy
Actors of Japan    •    Actors of Mexico    •    Other Foreign Actors

Hispanic-American Cinema Page


Miscellaneous  Cinema  Links

Midnight Palace - old movies, classic & obscure 1900-1955
Movies 4 Arabs
FilmJumper
Off Beat Cinema tv show [est. 1993]
Star du Cin้ photos website
Danger & Despair [noir videos & 16mm]
Grapevine Video [Jack Hardy]
Em Gee Film Library [Murray Glass]
in-theater advertiser National CineMedia LLC {requires Flash}

Click for the Warner Bros. Online Shop - www.WBShop.com          movies & tv at Fansites.com          Netflix, Inc.

Hollywood Mega Store - Movie Gifts & Party Accessories!

World-of-Movies.com: Your online source for everything about Movies and Animated Films          New York Times movie reviews site          TVLand Store: 'I Love Lucy', 'Brady Bunch', 'The Honeymooners', 'Three Stooges', 'I Dream of Jeannie', 'Andy Griffith', 'Get Smart', 'Munsters' and more...

Earth Cinema Circle online environmental cinema club

Spiritual Cinema Circle online consciousness cinema club


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