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"Have You Seen ... ?: A Personal Introduction To 1,000  Films" [2008] by David Thomson Knopf 9½x6¾ hardcover [10/2008] for $26.37 |
Academy Award Winners
Oscars Index Page with books & video collections
Great Films Before The Academy Awards
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Gangster Movies
Gangster Film Festival Page
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gangster movies A-Z
Organized Crime Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
Magic Lantern's 'Godfather Saga' Page
Noir Cinema Festival
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at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Film Noir Collections • Noir Films of America • Noir Films of Asia • Noir Films of France
Books on Film Noir
BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Raymond Chandler [1888-1959] Pages
Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961]Pages
Other Film Festivals
Atomic Film Festival Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
Atomic U.S.A. Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
Beatnik Film Festival Page
at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
The Beat Generation Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
Biker Movies
 | "The Big Book of Biker Flicks: 40 of The Best Motorcycle Movies of All Tiime [2005] by John Wooley & Michael H. Price Hawk Publng Group 12x8 pb [6/2005] for $24.45 |
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"Two Wheels On Two Reels: A History of Biker Movies" [2000] by Mike Seate Whitehorse Press pb [11/] for $15.95 |
"Easy Rider" [1969]
"The Wild Ones" [] starring Marlon Brando
Culver City, California: The Heart of Screenland
The movie studios in Culver City have rivaled those in Hollywood & Burbank since 1914 !!
Culver City Film Festival Page
Culver City, California: My Home Town
Culver City [CA] Businesses Page
Thomas H. Ince [1882-1924] Page
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Page
Hal Roach [1892-1992] Page
Sony Pictures • Columbia Pictures • TriStar Pictures
Human Rights Film Festival Page
Jazz Film Festival
Jazz Music Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
Labor Film Festival
Labor Movements Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
Muscle-Head Film Festival
Dolph Lundgren
listed as Amazon bestselling action star in 2008
Steve Reeves
Arnold Schwarzenegger
listed as Amazon bestselling action star in 2008
Steven Seagal
listed as Amazon bestselling action star in 2008
new "Seagalogy" book by Vern ??
Jean-Claude Van Damme from Belgium
listed as Amazon bestselling action star in 2008
browse Van Damme on DVD •
posters • IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
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What will an aging action movie hero do when a gun is put to his head by a real-life bank robber? Co-produced by & starring Jean-Claude Van Damme; co-written & directed by Mabrouk El Mechri Peace Arch Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [4/2009] for $14.99 
Peace Arch Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray [4/2009] for $25.99
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Movie Musicals Film Festival Pages
Native American Film Festival
Railroad Film Festival Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
American Railroads Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
Rock n' Roll Movies Festival
"The Spirit of Rock'n'Roll" Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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"The Rock & Roll Film Encyclopedia" [2007] by John Kenneth Muir Applause Books 9x7½ pb [4/2007] for $13.57 |
'Shakespeare On Film' Festival Pages
Sherlock Holmes Film Festival Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Teen & Surf Movies Film Festival
Surf Shack Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
Woody Surfing Wagons Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
http://www.amazon.com/Teen-Movies-American-Youth-Screen/dp/1904764495/
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"Teen Movies: American Youth On Screen" [2005] by Timothy Shary Wallflower Press 8x5¾ pb [12/2005] for $20.00 |
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"Rebels and Chicks: A History of the Hollywood Teen Movie" [2005] by Stephen Tropiano Back Stage Books 8¼x5½ pb [8/2005] for $17.95 |
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"Pretty In Pink: The Golden Age of Teenage Movies" [1997] by Jonathan Bernstein St. Martin's Griffin 9¼x6 pb [1/97] out of print/many used |
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"Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies In The 1950s" [1988] by Thomas Doherty Temple Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [5/2002] for $23.95 Temple Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/2002] for $56.30 |
Philosophy Film Festivals
Philosophy Film Festival Page
at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
Existentialist Film Festival Page
at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
Pirate Film Festival
'Pirates of The Americas' Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
War ( & Anti-War ) Film Festival Pages
main index • Middle East • VietNam • The Cold War • Korea • World War II
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Wars in Ancient Times • Misc. Wars & Peacetime
Working Minds / Things To Worry About / War & Peace Page
Books on the Subject of War & Peace
Atomic Film Festival Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
Western Film Festival
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at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
Western Movie Collections • The Modern Cowboy • Directors • Links
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Oscar-Winning Western Movies Page
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Billy the Kid [1859-81] Page
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Zane Grey [1872-1939] Pages +
Zane Grey Movies Pages
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'The Lone Ranger' Page
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Sam Peckinpah [1925-84] Page
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John Wayne [1907-79] Page
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 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
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 Page • Kiyoshi Atsumi • Hiroshi Inagaki • Juzo Itami • Akira Kurosawa Page •
Toshirô Mifune • Hayao Miyazaki Page • Kenji Mizoguchi • Tatsuya Nakadai • Yasujiro Ozu •
Takashi Shimura • Ken Takakura • Yoji Yamada • Zatô-Ichi • 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 ...
Janus Films
Essential Art House Cinema Festival
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Janus/Criterion b&w and color DVD box set [10/2006] 50 disks & book for $764.99
FIFTY FILMS including Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky" [Russia 1938]; Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds" [Poland 1958]; Antonioni's "L'Avventura" [Italy 1960]; "Ballad of A Soldier" [Russia 1959]; Cocteau's "Beauty and The Beast" [France 1946]; "Black Orpheus" [Brasil 1959]; "Brief Encounter" [U.K. 1945]; "The Fallen Idol" [U.K. 1948]; Ichikawa's "Fires On The Plain" [Japan 1959]; Ozu's "Floating Weeds" [Japan 1959]; Clément's "Forbidden Games" [France 1952]; Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" [France 1959]; Renoir's "Grand Illusion" [1937]; "Häxan" [1922 silent]; Kurosawa's "Ikiru" [Japan 1952]; "The Importance of Being Earnest" [U.K. 1952]; Eisenstein's "Ivan The Terrible, Part II" [Russia 1958]; "Le Jour se Lève" [France 1939]; Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" [France 1962]; "Kind Hearts and Coronets" [U.K. 1949] starring Alec Guinness; Polanski's "Knife In The Water" [Poland 1962]; Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" [U.K. 1938]; "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" [U.K. 1943]; Forman's "The Loves of A Blonde" [Czech 1965]; Fritz Lang's "M" [Germany 1931] starring Peter Lorre; Tati's "M. Hulot's Holiday" [France 1953]; "Miss Julie" [Sweden 1951]; Pabst's "Pandora's Box" [Germany 1929] starring Louise Brooks; "Pépé le Moko" [France 1937] starring Jean Gabin; Olmi's "Il Posto" [Italy 1961]; "Pygmalion" [U.K. 1938]; Kurosawa's "Rashomon" [Japan 1950]; Olivier's "Richard III" [U.K. 1955]; Renoir's "The Rules of The Game" [France 1939]; Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" [Japan 1954]; Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" [Sweden 1957]; "The Spirit of The Beehive" [Spain 1973]; Fellini's "La Strada" [Italy 1954]; David Lean's "Summertime" [U.K. 1955] starring Katharine Hepburn & Rossano Brazzi; "The Third Man" [1949] starring Orson Welles; Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" [U.K. 1935]; Mizoguchi's "Ugetsu" [Japan 1953]; De Sica's "Umberto D." Italy 1952]; Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" [Sweden 1960]; Buñuel's "Viridiana" [Sapin 1961]; Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear" [France 1953]; Fellini's "The White Sheik" [Italy 1952]; Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" [Sweden 1957]; and 3 documentaries by Saul J. Turell |
"Essential Art House Films"
on DVD from Criterion
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Volume 1: Criterion Collection DVD set [9/2008] 6 disks for $89.99
contains Cocteau's "Beauty and The Beast" [France 1946]; Renoir's "Grand Illusion" [1937]; Polanski's "Knife In The Water" [Poland 1962]; "Lord of The Flies" [1963] (not in 50-disk set above); Kurosawa's "Rashomon" [Japan 1950]; and Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" z{Sweden 1957] Volume 2: Criterion Collection DVD set DVD [2/2009] 6 disks for $89.99
contains "Black Orpheus" [Brasil 1959]; Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" [France 1959]; Kurosawa's "Ikiru" [Japan 1952]; Fellini's "La Strada" [Italy 1954]; "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" [U.K. 1943]; and "Pygmalion" [U.K. 1938] Volume 3: Criterion Collection DVD set [6/2009] 6 disks for $74.99
contains Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds" [Poland 1958]; Clément's "Forbidden Games" [France 1952]; Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress" [Japan 1958] (not in 50-disk set above); "Last Holiday" [1950] starring Alec Guiness (not in 50-disk set above); Olivier's "Richard III" [U.K. 1955]; and Fellini's "Variety Lights" [1950] (not in 50-disk set above) |
My Ten Favorite Films & Why
includes "Akahige" aka 'Red Beard' [1965], Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968], Sam Peckinpah's
"The Wild Bunch" [1969], Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" [1975], Scorcese's "Taxi Driver" [1976],
"Apocalypse Now" [1979], "Reds" [1981], "Fitzcarraldo" [1982],
"Wings of Desire" [1987], "Faraway, So Close" [1993] & "Forrest Gump" [1994]
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Afro-American Cinema
Afro-American Film Festival Pages
70's Blaxploitation fansite
African-American genre at Internet Movie Database
"Midnight Ramble: The Negro In Early Hollywood" pages
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"That's Black Entertainment" documentary [Starz! 2002]
S'more Ent. color/b&w DVD set [1/2007] 3 disks for $9.99 A three-part original documentary series celebrating legendary black actors, comedians & Westerns; broadcast on Starz! in 2002 as three episodes: "Actors", "Comedians", and "Westerns" Directed by Walid Khaldi, written by Sean Whitley; hosted by Mario Van Peebles NOTE: this is not the same as the independent Skyline docufilm of 1990 {below} |
 | "It's Black Entertainment" TV special [Showtime 2001]
Featured artists include Cab Calloway, Sammy Davis Jr., Snoop Dogg, Ella Fitzgerald, Whitney Houston, Ice T, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Spike Lee, Little Richard, Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, Diana Ross & Russell Simmons Directed by Stan Lathan; hosted by Vanessa Williams Showtime Ent. color DVD [7/2001] for $9.98 Showtime Ent. color VHS [7/2001] for $9.48 full credits from IMDb |
 | "Midnight Ramble: The Story of The Black Film Industry" [P.B.S./American Experience TV documentary aired Oct 1994] Co-produced & co-directed by Bestor Cram; co-directed by Pearl Bowser; narrated by James Avery Shanachie Video color VHS [2/95] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
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"That's Black Entertainment" [Skyline Ent. 1990]
Covers 'race' movies & stars from 1929 to 1957 Co-produced, written & co-directed by G. William Jones; co-directed & hosted by William Greaves NOTE: this is not the same film as the 3-part Starz show of 2002 {above} On Deck Home Ent. VHS [11/99] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
Sports Movies
Sports Movies Film Festival Page
auto racing • baseball • basketball • boxing • football
golf • hockey • horse racing • wrestling • other sports
Magic Lantern's Rocky Balboa Page
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"Sports Cinema: 100 Movies - The Best of Hollywood's Athletic Heroes, Losers, Myths & Misfits of The Silver Screen" [2006] by Randy Williams Limelight Editions 10½x8¼ pb [10/2006] for $18.96 |
Visit Our Other Online Film Festival Pages
Afro-American Film Festival Page at Magic Lantern
Atomic Film Festival Page at Spirit of America
Ayn Rand Film Festival at Magic Lantern
Beatnik Film Festival at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
Culver City, California Film Festival at Magic Lantern
Existentialist Film Festival at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
Films Noir Festival at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Gangster Film Festival at Magic Lantern
Human Rights Film Festival at Magic Lantern
Movie Musicals Film Festival at Magic Lantern
Oscar-Winning Western Movies Page at 'Readers of the Purple Sage'
Philosophy Film Festival at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
Pirate Film Festival
Political Film Festival at Magic Lantern
Railroad Film Festival at Spirit of America
Samurai Films at Magic Lantern
Shakespeare On Film at Magic Lantern
Sherlock Holmes Film Festival at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Sports Film Festival Page at Magic Lantern
War [& Anti- War] Film Festival Pages at Magic Lantern
Western Movies Film Festival at 'Readers of the Purple Sage'
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