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Gangster Film Festival Page
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Noir  Cinema  Festival
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Image Ent. b&w DVD [7/2001] for $22.49 includes original trailers for 45 noir feature films from the archives of collector Ted Newsom: George Cukor's "A Woman's Face", "The Accused", "Act of Violence", "Anatomy of A Murder", "Berlin Express", "The Big Clock", Fritz Lang's "The Big Heat", Clifford Odets's "The Big Knife", Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" {with Bogart}, "Blackmail", Raymond Chandler's "The Brasher Doubloon", "The Bribe", "Circumstantial Evidence", Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" [1941], "City of Chance", "The Cobra Strikes", "Conflict" {with Bogart}, Edward Dmytryk's "Cross-fire", "Deception" {with Bette Davis}, William Wyler's "Detective Story", James M. Cain's "Double Indemnity", "Fingers At The Window", "Fury", George Cukor's "Gaslight", "Girl In 313", Dashiell Hammett's "The Glass Key", "Grand Central Murder", "Hangover Square", "I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang", "Key Largo" {with Bogart}, Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing", Mickey Spillane's "Kiss Me Deadly", "Kiss The Blood Off My Hands", Raymond Chandler's "Lady In The Lake", Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" {with Bogart}, Fritz Lang's "Ministry of Fear", "Night of The Hunter", James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice" {with Lana Turner}, "Private Hell 36", "Ride The Pink Horse", "Sealed Lips", "Strange Triangle", Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard", Graham Greene's "This Gun For Hire", and Billy Wilder's "Witness For The Prosecution" |
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Magic Lantern's Oscar Micheaux [1884-1951] Page
Atomic Film Festival Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
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at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
The Beat Generation Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
'Biker Movies' Film Festival Page
Motorcycles Section on the Roadside Americana Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
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
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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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"The Rock and Roll Movie Encyclopedia of The 1950s" [1990] by Mark Thomas McGee McFarland & Co. 8¾x6 pb [10/2001] out of print/used McFarland & Co. 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/90] out of print/many used |
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Sherlock Holmes Film Festival Page
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Teen & Surf Movies Film Festival
Surf Shack Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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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
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Atomic Film Festival Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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Foreign  Directors,  Auteurs  &  Actors
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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 ...
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Maria Félix  •  Emilio Fernández  •  Vicente Fernández  •  Gabriel Figueroa  •  Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez  •
Arturo Ripstein  •  Ignacio López Tarso  •  and others ...
Janus  Films
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Janus/Criterion b&w and color DVD box set [10/2006] 50 disks & book for $772.49
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; Jacques Tati's "Mr. 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]; Luis Buñuel's "Viridiana" [Spain 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"
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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" [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) Volume 4: Criterion Collection DVD set [9/2009] 6 disks for $74.99 contains René Clément's "Gervaise" [France 1956] starring Maria Schell (not in 50-disk set above); Marcel Carné’s dark masterwork "Le Jour se Leve (Daybreak)" [France 1939] starring Jean Gabin; Anatole Litvak’s tragic romance "Mayerling" [France 1936], starring Charles Boyer & Danielle Darrieux (not in 50-disk set above); "The Tales of Hoffman" [U.K. 1951] in Technicolor, directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Press- burger, starring Moira Shearer; Hitchcock’s "The 39 Steps" [U.K. 1935] starring Robert Donat & Madeleine Carroll; Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood (Kumonosu jo)" [Japan 1957] starring Toshiro Mifune & Isuzu Yamada (not in 50-disk set above) Volume 5: Criterion Collection DVD set [4/2010] 6 disks for $89.99  
contains "Brief Encounter" [U.K. 1945] directed by David Lean; "Fellini's 8½" [1963] (not in 50-disk set above); Ozu's "Floating Weeds" [Japan 1959]; François Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" [France 1962]; "Kapò" [1959] by Gillo Pontecorvo (not in 50-disk set above); and Forman's "The Loves of A Blonde" [Czech 1965] |
My  Ten  Favorite  Films  &  Why
includes "Akahige" aka 'Red Beard' [1965], Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968], Sam Peckinpah's
"The Wild Bunch" [1969], Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" [1975], Martin Scorcese's "Taxi Driver" [1976],
Francis Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" [1979], "Reds" [1981], "Fitzcarraldo" [1982],
"Wings of Desire" [1987], "Faraway, So Close" [1993] & "Forrest Gump" [1994]
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Sports Movies Film Festival Page
auto racing • baseball • basketball • boxing • football
golf • hockey • horse racing • wrestling • other sports
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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
'Biker Movies' Film Festival at Magic Lantern
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
Hollywood Film Festival at Magic Lantern
Human Rights Film Festival at Magic Lantern
Movie Musicals Film Festival at Magic Lantern
Muscle Head 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
'Rat Race' Film Festival at Magic Lantern
Road Movies Film Festival at Magic Lantern
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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