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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



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


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

Big Book of Motorcycle Movies book by John Wooley & Michael H. Price  "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
Two Wheels on Two Reels: A History of Biker Movies book by Mike Seate   "Two Wheels On Two Reels: A History of Biker Movies" [2000]
by Mike Seate

Whitehorse Press pb [11/] for $15.95
http://www.amazon.com/Biker-Original-Cowboy-Became-Silver/dp/1592288413/

"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

Rocky Balboa Page

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 DVDpostersIMDb listingWikipedia

J.C.V.D. movie poster starring Jean-Claude Van Damme  "J.C.V.D." [France June 2008, USA Nov 2008]
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  
full credits from IMDbofficial movie sitemovie entry at Wikipedia

Movie Musicals Film Festival Pages

Native American Film Festival

Political Film Festival Pages

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

Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia  
"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

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


Pirate  Film  Festival

Pirate Film Festival Page

'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

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  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

Janus Films logo  

Janus Films Essential Art House 50-disk set  

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
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" 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]

click here


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

That's Black Entertainment documentary feature directed by Walid Khaldi   "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 on Showtime  "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 / Oscar Micheaux documentary  
"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
That's Black Entertainment documentary feature directed by G. William Jones & William Greaves   "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 IMDbmovie entry at Wikipedia



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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
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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'Readers of the Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
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Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore & Beatnik Coffeehouse



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