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Warner b&w DVD [1/2005] 6 disks for $56.99 includes "Angels With Dirty Faces" [1938] starring James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, The Dead End Kids & Pat O'Brien; "Little Caesar" [1931] starring Edward G. Robinson & Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; "The Petrified Forest" [1936] starring Humphrey Bogart, Leslie Howard & Bette Davis; "The Public Enemy" [1931] starring James Cagney, Jean Harlow & Edward Woods; "The Roaring Twenties" [1939] directed by Raoul Walsh, starring James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Jeffrey Lynn & Priscilla Lane; and "White Heat" [1949] directed by Raoul Walsh, starring James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly & Virginia Mayo |
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"The Rock & Roll Film Encyclopedia" [2007] by John Kenneth Muir Applause Books 9x7½ pb [4/2007] for $13.57 |
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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 |
"Sports Movies: A Guide To Nearly 500 Films Focusing On Sports" [1989]
by Jeffrey H. Wallenfeldt
Cinebooks 9x7 pb [10/89] out of print/used
Teen & Surf Movies Film Festival
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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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"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
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Janus Films
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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 |
My Ten 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]
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Afro-American Cinema
Oscar Michaux [1884-1951]
70's Blaxploitation fansite
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"Midnight Ramble: The Negro in Early Hollywood" pages
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"Black Directors In Hollywood" [2003] by Melvin Donalson Univ TX Press 8¾x6¾ pb [12/2003] for $29.95 Univ TX Press 9x7 hardcover [12/2003] out of print/used |
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"Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About The Magic of Cinema" [2003] by George Alexander
interviewees include Camille Billops, Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Ernest Dickerson, Antoine Fuqua, Haile Gerima, William Greaves, Reginald & Warrington Hudlin, Malcolm Lee, Spike Lee, Doug McHenry, Stanley Nelson, Euzhan Palcy, Gordon Parks, Joh Singleton, George Tillman Jr., Robert Townsend, Melvin Van Peebles, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Forrest Whitaker, Fred Williamson & others Harlem Moon 9¼x7½ pb [2/2003] for $15.95 |
 | "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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"Framing Blackness: The African American Image In Film" [1993] by Ed Guerrero Temple Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [11/93] for $21.24 Temple Univ Press 9&frac13x6½ hardcover [11/93] out of print/used |
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"Black American Cinema" [1993] from A.F.I.; edited by Manthia Diawara Routledge 9x6 pb [8/93] for $29.95 Routledge 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/93] for $115.00 "Black American Cinema Reconsidered" [2006] from A.F.I.; edited by Manthia Diawara & Mia Mask Routledge 9x6 pb [12/2006] for $24.95 Routledge 9x6 hardcover [12/2006] for $85.00 |
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"Redefining Black Film" [1993] by Mark A. Reid Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [2/93] for $19.95 Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/93] out of print/used |
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"A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters" [1992] by John Kisch & Edward Mapp Noonday Press 11x8½ pb [11/92] out of print/used FS&G hardcover [11/92] out of print/used Movie Posters Page at Magic Lantern |
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"Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found" [1991] by George William Jones Univ North TX Press 9½x6¼ pb [2/97] for $17.95 Univ North TX Press 8¾x6¼ hardcover [8/91] for $29.95 |
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"Frame By Frame, Volume I: A Black Filmography" [1979] by Phyllis R. Klotman Indiana Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [2/98] for $64.95 Indiana Univ Press 9¾x6¾ hardcover [12/97] out of print/used "Frame By Frame, Volume II: A Filmography of The African American Image, 1978-1994" [1997] by Phyllis R. Klotman & Gloria J. Gibson Indiana Univ Press 9x6 pb [6/97] for $39.95 Indiana Univ Press 9¾x6¾ hardcover [6/97] out of print/rare |
Movie Musicals
Movie Music & Composers Page
'Essential Musicals On Film' category at Amazon
JJ's 'Class Act' Movie Musicals website
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"Lubitsch Musicals" [2008] 
includes "The Love Parade" [1929] starring Maurice Chevalier & Jeanette MacDonald; "Monte Carlo" [1930] starring Jack Buchanan & Jeanette MacDonald; "The Smiling Lieutenant" [1931] starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert & Miriam Hopkins; and "One Hour With You" [1932] starring Maurice Chevalier & Jeanette MacDonald Criterion/Eclipse b&w DVD set [2/2008] 4 disks for $59.95 |
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M.G.M. Classic Musicals Collection [2007]
widescreen color DVD [9/2007] 6 disks for $32.99 includes "Guys and Dolls" [1955] starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons & Frank Sinatra; "West Side Story" [1961] starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn & Rita Moreno {won 10 Oscars}; "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" [1966] directed by Richard Lester; starring Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford & Jack Gilford; "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" [1967] starring Robert Morse, Michele Lee & Rudy Vallee; "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" [1968] starring Dick Van Dyke; and "Fiddler On The Roof" [1971] (won 3 Oscars) |
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Classic Musicals 50 Movie Pack Collection [2005]
Mill Creek Ent. DVD set [4/2005] 12 disks for $18.97 FIFTY FILMS including "All-American Co-Ed", "The Big Show", "Black Tights", "Breakfast In Hollywood", "Calendar Girl", "Career Girl", "Check and Double Check", "The Dancing Pirate", "Delightfully Dangerous", "Dixiana", "Doll Face", "The Duke Is Tops", "Fabulous Dorseys", "Fiesta", "Glorifying The American Girl", "The Great Gabbo", "Hi Diddle Diddle", "Hi-De-Ho", "Jack and The Beanstalk", "Killer Diller", "King Kelly of The U.S.A.", "Let's Go Collegiate", "Minstrel Man", "Mr. Imperium", "Murder With Music", "Palooka", "Paradise In Harlem", "People Are Funny", "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", "Private Buckaroo", "Reaching For The Moon", "Reet, Petite & Gone", "Rhythm and Blues Revue", "Rhythm In The Clouds", "Road Show", "The Road to Hollywood", "Rock N' Roll Revue", "Rock-Rock-Rock", "Royal Wedding", "Second Chorus", "Sitting On The Moon", "Soundies Cavalcade", "Soundies Festival", "Stage Door Canteen", "Sunny", "Swing Hostess", "Till The Clouds Roll By", "Trocadero", "Up In The Air", and"Wild Guitar" |
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"Hollywood Musicals Nominated For Best Picture, 1929-1995" [2003] by Frederick G. Vogel McFarland & Co. 10½x7 hardcover [1/2003] for $75.00 |
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"M-G-M's Greatest Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit" [1996] by Hugh Fordin Da Capo Press 9x6 pb [9/96] for $24.00 |
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