Links Page

Glossaries of Film Terms:

Internet Movie Database's online glossary--Here, you will find definitions of terms and phrases frequently used in the world of movies, film, acting, and cinema going.

Online Film Dictionary--this dictionary shall help you to better understand all those movie-specific terms in foreign languages--translation of cinema terminology is provided for several languages including French, German, Italian, English and Spanish

Search Engines:

aFilm.com: the Internet directory for the film industry. This site provides clickable links to those in the film community who have web sites and email addresses as well as those who plan to establish a web site in the near future. This is a non-commercial site run by a non-profit entity and there are no charges. Web site services are not sold. Use this site to find a film industry related company or individual and then click over to their web site.

CineWeb developed by Yan Seiler of Switzerland, this database of lists links to Film Directors, Actors/Actresses, genres, as well as Film Festivals around the world.

Movie Review Query Engine The Movie Review Query Engine is a central gateway to many of the movie reviews available on the World Wide Web. Entries in the database are reviews that have been posted in the past to rec.arts.movies.reviews or appear on the WWW servers of a variety of media outlets and other sources.

MovieWeb includes movie listings by year, local movies (where and when), local movie theatre showtimes, new movie releases, upcoming movie releases, movies available on video and entertainment news and info. This website has a very strong USA/Hollywod bias.

Webfind Movie Search contains thousands of links to official movie sites, fan sites, TV related sites, sites about actors, actresses, directors and other celebrities.

Yahoo -- Movies and Films Database of current events in Hollywood.

Databases:

Golden Globe Awards Film Awards selected by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Includes database of winners since the awards were founded in 1944.

Movie Database: Database of film provided by TVGuide. Cast, credits and reviews for more than 35,000 movies, plus filmographies for thousands of actors, directors, screenwriters and others, from The Motion Picture Guide, Cinebooks' 23-volume reference landmark, and Ephraim Katz's comprehensive Film Encyclopedia, this search database includes the cast, credits and reviews for more than 30,000 movies released in the U.S., plus filmographies and biographical information on thousands of actors, directors and other filmmakers.

Cinemedia: Billed as the Internet's largest film and media directory. Includes Television and Video listings as well as a complete list of film festivals around the world.

Cinema Festivals Database of film festivals around the world. You can search by country, type or dates.

Film Scouts - takes you from Hollywood to the beaches of Cannes. On site you will find Hollywood clips, Indie clips, stars, and other information about films.

Film.com - an independent site devoted to contemporary film review and discussion, film festivals announcements and field reports, and essays on film craft and filmmaking.

Hollywood Online

- multimedia entertainment, information and previews, hundreds of photos, video, sound and multimedia kits, movie trailers and more.

Organizations, Libraries and Archives:

American Film Institute Early American Films a speciality. Different films playing daily. Provided you have high speed access to the net (at the very least 28.8 Modem), you can get some interesting viewing.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Information about the Academy, the Academy Awards, and the other programs and activities of the Academy and its affiliated organization, the Academy Foundation. The Oscars has its own website at www.oscar.com

Cinematheque Ontario Cinematheque Ontario, one of the youngest cinematheques in the world, opened its doors in June of 1990 when the Toronto International Film Festival Group took over management of Gerald Pratley's acclaimed Ontario Film Institute. Cinematheque Ontario premiered with the first-ever Canadian retrospective focusing on fabled Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini. A division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group, Cinematheque Ontario screens more than 350 films from October to July each year. In its brief history, Cinematheque Ontario has screened more than 3,700 films, including directors' retrospectives, actors tributes, national cinema spotlights, thematic series and limited runs to enthusiastic and sophisticated Toronto-area audiences.

Director's Guild of America Includes the Director's Guild's On-line Magazine with interviews of major living American filmmakers.

Director's Guild Internet Resource List Listing of links to American Studios and film distributors, to Organizations, Companies and publications about film, to Broadcast and Cable TV networks and to TVshows. Also lists DGA member sites. Of course, it is all USA stuff.

The Film Circuit
A project of the Toronto International Film Festival Group, The Film Circuit is an association of film groups that screens films in over 35 communities throughout Ontario. Located in the TIFFG offices, The Film Circuit currently consists of 3 staff members responsible for developing and managing Circuit activity. The main goal of The Film Circuit is to promote Canadian cinema through grassroots distribution, marketing and exhibition.

The Film Reference Library The Film Reference Library, the source for English language film information in Canada, is open to the public, welcoming scholars, students, film buffs, journalists and industry professionals to consult our considerable resources from the world of cinema. The library assumed operation of the Ontario Film Institute in 1990 and continues the dedicated work of Gerald Pratley, founder of the OFI, by collecting and preserving materials indispensable to film education, research and production.

Film Studies Association of Canada The FSAC was founded in 1976 following an organisational meeting of film scholars, teachers and film makers during the Conference of Learned Societies in Quebec City. Annual conferences have been held since then at various locations all over Canada, in recent years within the framework of the Learned Societies. The FSAC publishes and distributes a quarterly Newsletter, and also supports the publication of a scholarly journal, The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, with contributions from film scholars in Canada and elsewhere.

Golden Globe Awards Film Awards selected by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Includes database of winners since the awards were founded in 1944.

The Librarian's Basic Guide to Film web page is designed as a reference tool primarily for librarians with no professional background in film who suddenly find themselves starting a film collection or developing an existing collection.

Museum of Broadcast Communications The MBC examines popular culture and contemporary American history through the sights and sounds of television and radio.

The Oscars Website The Academy of Motion Pictures website of current and pass Oscar nominees and winners.

SCREENWRITERS ONLINE is the only Professional Screenwriter's Resource and Industry Newsletter offering important advice and Inside Information from prominent screenwriters who made their name and earn their living by getting their scripts made into movies. It is operated by professional screenwriters for screenwriters whether students, professionals or serious beginners as well as other entertainm

SCREEN Magazine delivers exclusive information about Chicago's $900 million production market. Serving those who make images for the big, little and computer screens.

Telefilm Canada Telefilm Canada is one of the government's principal instruments for achieving its cultural objectives, including telling Canadian stories to Canada and the world. Our government realizes that the Canadian audiovisual industry generates a significant share of the country's overall economic activity. In addition, the phenomenal growth of the Information Highway, the convergence of new technologies and the limitations of the domestic market have prompted the government to encourage the production of high-quality Canadian content.

UCLA Film and Television Archive The world's largest University-held collection of motion pictures and broadcast programming. Containing over 200,000 films and television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage, The UCLA Film and Television Archive serves the past, present, and future by assuring that the audio-visual records of our century survive to be enjoyed and studied for generations to come.

Imax the Technology The Sony IMAX� Theatre features the world's most advanced 3D technology. Once you put the 3D headsets on, you're gone. You become part of the story. Images pop right off the screen and surround you. It seems like you could touch them. If you have the patience to down load the images it is a fantastic site.

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) is an international, award-winning technical society devoted to advancing the theory and application of motion-imaging technology including film, television, video, computer imaging, and telecommunications. The SMPTE currently serves 8,500 members in 72 countries. Members of the Society are engineers, executives, technical directors, cameramen, editors, consultants, and specialists in film processing, film and television production and post-production, and practitioners from almost every other discipline in the motion-imaging industry.

Movie Sound Page
Welcome to the web page devoted to the understanding and appreciation of the sound of movies.

Dolby Lab News
Welcome to the Dolby News online archives, a collection of the newsletters published by Dolby Laboratories. Every issue of Dolby News, from the premier issue in 1990 to our current issue, is available at this site.

Film Formats
Very slow loading but lots of interesting technical information about Cinematographic Processes, Release Formats, and Colour Processes.

Film History and Criticism:

GRAFICS Early Cinema Server (Universite de Montreal):
The GRAFICS is a research group about early cinema in Quebec, located at University of Montreal. Although this server is dedicated to the publication of the results of our researches, we'd like to make it a (modest) platform for all those who are interested in cinema, especially (but not exclusively) in early cinema. (in English via translate.com)

History of Communication Media Technologies
This project is the result of the efforts of numerous scholars working worldwide to produce hypertext and multimedia learning tools that could be globally accessible at any time. Communication media history necessarily intersects with numerous traditions in the social sciences and the humanities. As an emerging field, it is worth noting that no comprehensive review and analysis of the scope and variety of historical accounts of media development, use, or integration with political, economic, social, cultural, and moral structures and institutions yet exists -- due, in part, to the dispersion of this branch of history across disciplines. This site covers all aspects of media history from the oral culture through radio, television, film to the Internet.

Taylorology Although the publication centers on the unsolved 1922 murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor, there is reprinted material on, and interviews with, other silent stars including Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Olive Thomas, Blanche Sweet, William S. Hart, Lillian Gish, etc.

SOFIA (Study of Film as Internet Application)

Motion Picture Industry -- Students:

Meta Guides and Links:

Video and laserdisc sites:

Interesting Specific Sites:

Stanley Kubrick Web Site This page and the files linked to it are a source for information regarding the work of film director/producer Stanley Kubrick. The site leaves the interpretation of his films to the viewer and serves mainly images and sounds from Kubrick's films.

Alfred Hitchcock WWW He was known to his audiences as the "Master of Suspense" and what Hitchcock mastered was not only the art of making films but also the task of taming his own raging imagination.

The Hitchcock Page Very comprehensive look at the life, times and works of Alfred Hitchcock. Includes a GIF animation of the shower scene from Psycho.

Alfred Hitchcock Scholars Meet Here: the McGuffin Web Page A main aim of this Web site involves pooling useful information of a scholarly kind about the career and films of Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). We'll also try to note and comment on trends and directions in Hitchcock research. And we'll regularly post items of film-news, especially where these have a Hitchcock connection. We welcome a variety of approaches to these matters by our contributors. Anyone is invited to send in a contribution or a message. (Note: we'll be adding a separate Readers' Page to this site soon.)

Studios
Canada's leading producer of television & films.


National Film Board of Canada
Paramount Pictures
MGM/United Artists


Warner Brothers Movies