GENERAL INTERESTS
CREATIVE PLANET the place to be for professional or student filmmakers, but it can be also educational for average Joe's like me. It has affiliated sites for individual arts/crafts like DIRECTORS WORLD, EDITORS NET, CINEMATOGRAPHY WORLD, ANIMATION WORLD NETWORK, GOODSTORY (a site for screenwriters to post their their works), VFX PRO (a site on visual effects, or special effects), and DVD ARTIST.
Each site has in-depth articles and interviews on current developments in each respective area.
SOFIA (Study Of Film as Internet Application) an excellent site that comes closest to Film Course 101 on net.
CINEMA SITES movie index site with many links to various websites.
IMAGES: a journal of film and popular culture a quarterly journal but new reviews and articles are added every week. Includes in-depth essays on topics like Hitchcock, Western, Italian Horror movies and so on; includes reviews for both art movies and recent blockbusters.
STRICTLY FILM SCHOOL very comprehensive collection of essays on landmark films arranged by director, genre, themes, and imagery.
24 FRAMES PER SECOND a forum where criticial reviews of mainly recent Hollywood movies are submitted by readers.
BRIGHT LIGHTS FILM JOURNAL looks at classic and commercial, independent, exploitation, and international film from a wide range of vantage points.
CULTUREVULTURE.NET a film section of Culturevulture.net - mainly recent movies with both mainstream and indie movies well represented.
CHICAGO READER (FILM) Jonathan Rosenbaum's movie reviews on Chicago Reader. Also includes capsule reviews for 9,000 + titles.
THE CINEMA CONNECTION an Austrailian index with many links, more manageable than Yahoo!.
Motion Picture Collection of LIBRARY OF CONGRESS a treasury of silent films available for download.
UNDERGROUNDFILM.COM site devoted to independant filmmaking.
iF MAGAZINE weekly publication focusing on independent films.
CINEMEDIA cinema section of CineMedia - media directory covering films, TVs, radio, and industry.
MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY (Behind the Scenes) introduces the history and mechanics of filmmaking.
THE GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME has in-depth information and detailed description on 200 "greatest" (mostly American) films.
SILENT MAJORITY fan club and online journal of silent movies.
DREW'S SCRIPT-O-RAMA collection of film scripts, transcripts, and TV scripts.
WALLYWOOD . . . breathing new life into old movies.
DIRECTORS
WORLD CINEMA Director section is particularly useful containing various information, links, and pictures of over 150 directors.
GODARD'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE Yep, this is the official site of Godard and has his e-mail address, too. But that doesn't mean he's going to answer you.
TO, FOR, AGAINST: JEAN-LUC GODARD excellent website on Godard with many pictures and useful information. Available in English and Korean.
CINEMA=JEAN-LUC GODARD another excellent website that has wealth of Godard-related articles and interviews.
MACGUFFIN WEB PAGE (Hitchcock) the best Hitchcock I've seen on the web. Almost daily updated.
FRITZ LANG: MASTER OF DARKNESS British Film Institute's webpage on the Lang retrospective.
THE CINEMA OF ERNST LUBITSCH best Lubitsch site IMHO.
WEB OF MURNAU With a new biopic of F.W. Murnau, it's great opportunity to get introduced to movies of this truly great director.
THE POWELL & PRESSBURGER PAGES site devoted to the films of the British duo - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
CRITERION COLLECTION - a director section of DVD/LD distributer Criterion Collection; contains some in-dept background notes and links on directors - Ingmar Bergman, Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, and John Woo.
MISCELLANEOUS
HOME THEATER FORUM the best moderated forum on home theater, DVD, and movies that you'll find in the internet.
DVDFILE daily updated news on studio announcements for new DVD release and reviews on nearly all major new releases. Has search engine for DVD reviews of other websites.
IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT a database for movies on DVD. Updates the new DVD announcements by studios biweekly.
Eric C. Johnson's MOVIE LISTS If you liked the S&S poll lists, check out this website that includes an array of similar kinds of lists - including 1995 TimeOut poll and annual ten best lists of major critics.
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