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'Film Festivals Around The World' Page

Have You Seen? / Introduction To 1,000 Films book by David Thomson  
"Have You Seen ... ?: A Personal Introduction To 1,000 Films" [2008]
by David Thomson

Knopf 9½x6¾ hardcover [10/2008] for $26.37

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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


Gangster  Movies

Gangster Film Festival Page
books about gangster movies    •    gangster movie collections    •    gangster movies A-Z

Organized Crime Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

Magic Lantern's 'Godfather Saga' Page


Noir  Cinema  Festival

Film Noir Festival Pages
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

Pulp Cinema compilation of 45 noir movie trailers  "Pulp Cinema: Seduction! Betrayal! Murder!" [2001]
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"


Other  Film  Festivals

Afro-American Film Festival Pages

Magic Lantern's Oscar Micheaux [1884-1951] Page

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' 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
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

Hollywood Film Festival Page
movies about the movies, about Hollywood, and about cinema history

Movies About the Movies  
"Movies About The Movies: Hollywood Reflected" [1997]
by Christopher Ames

Univ Press of KY 9x6 pb [12/97] for $19.95
Univ Press of KY 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/97] for $32.50

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 Page  
Rocky Balboa    •    Conan    •    Bruce Lee    •    Dolph Lundgren    •    Maciste
John Rambo    •    Steve Reeves    •    Doc Savage    •    Arnold Schwarzenegger
Steven Seagal    •    Tarzan    •    Jean-Claude Van Damme

Movie Musicals Film Festival Pages

Native American Film Festival
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

Pirate Film Festival Page

'Pirates of The Americas' Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
Magic Lantern's "Pirates of The Caribbean" Movie Series Page

Political Film Festival Pages

Railroad Film Festival Pages
at Spirit of America Bookstore

American Railroads Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore

'Rat Race' Film Festival Page  
a consolidation of the Corporations vs. America F/F, the Economics F/F,
the Political F/F Pages and other film festival elements

Road Movies Film Festival Page  

Rock n' Roll Movies Festival

"The Spirit of Rock'n'Roll" Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia  
"The Rock & Roll Film Encyclopedia" [2007]
by John Kenneth Muir

Applause Books 9x7½ pb [4/2007] for $13.57
The Rock & Roll Movie Encyclopedia of the 1950s book by Mark Thomas McGee   "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

'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

Teen Movies fansite

http://www.amazon.com/Teen-Movies-American-Youth-Screen/dp/1904764495/

American Youth On Screen   "Teen Movies: American Youth On Screen" [2005]
by Timothy Shary

Wallflower Press 8x5¾ pb [12/2005] for $20.00
Rebels and Chicks History of Hollywood Teen Movies book by Stephen Tropiano   "Rebels and Chicks: A History of the Hollywood Teen Movie" [2005]
by Stephen Tropiano

Back Stage Books 8¼x5½ pb [8/2005] for $17.95
Golden Age of Teenage Movies book by Jonathan Bernstein   "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
Teenagers & Teenpics   "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

Ayn Rand Film Festival Page


War  ( & Anti-War )  Film  Festival  Pages

main index        Middle East        VietNam        The Cold War        Korea        World War II

Spanish Civil War        World War I        U.S. Civil War        The Revolutionary War

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

Western Film Festival Pages
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

Western Movie CollectionsThe Modern CowboyDirectorsLinks

Cowboy Stars & ActorsLesser-Known Western FilmsFavorite Western Films

Oscar-Winning Western Movies Page

Books About Western Movies

'Readers of the Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

Western Movies genre at Internet Movie Database

Billy the Kid [1859-81] Page        Budd Boetticher: browse DVDsIMDb listing
'Hopalong Cassidy' Page        The Cisco Kid Page        Wyatt Earp [1848-1929] 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


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  Pages:  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 Films Essential Art House 50-disk set  

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"
on DVD  from  Criterion
Essential Art House DVD box sets from Criterion  
Essential Art House DVD box sets from Criterion  
Essential Art House DVD box sets from Criterion  
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

Sports Movies Film Festival Page
auto racingbaseballbasketballboxingfootball
golfhockeyhorse racingwrestlingother sports

Magic Lantern's Rocky Balboa Page

Sports Cinema 100 Movies  
"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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Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore & Beatnik Coffeehouse



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