Clamen's Movie Information Collection

Contents and Highlights

• Cinema Schedules
  • What's playing this week at Pittsburgh movie theatres?
• Film Reviews
  • Movie Review Query Engine
• Film Facts
  • List of films in the (US) National Film Registry
  • Internet Movie Database
• Film Industry
  • Film Festivals
• Production & Training
• Theatre Facts
• Other Film-related Resources

Schedules

• What's playing this week at Pittsburgh movie theatres?
• Pittsburgh Cinema Project

• What's playing elsewhere?
• Release Calendar
• New/Upcoming video releases (U.S.), courtesy Reel.com

Reviews/Ratings

• Movie Review Query Engine [index by title]
• Recent reviews on rec.arts.movies.reviews
• James Berardinelli's ReelViews
• Siskel & Ebert (Buena Vista)
• Roger Ebert on Movies (Chicago Sun-Times)
• The Washington Post
• etc.

Film facts

• The Internet Movie Database
• Matrix Software's All-Movie Guide
• The Motion Picture Guide, from CineBooks
• Honouring Motion Picture classics: The Greatest Films, Palace
• The Hong Kong Movies Home Page
• The Roland Collection of Film & Video on Art
• Bond and Beyond
• The James Bond Movie Page
• Alfred Hitchcock page
• Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion New!
• Dermatology in the Cinema
• The Movie Poster archive
• Drew's Script-O-Rama: free film scripts on the Web
• The movie entry from the Science fiction resource guide
• One Hundred Years of Film Sizes

• List of films in the (US) National Film Registry
• On this day in Movie history (births and deaths)

• Movie-oriented USENET groups
  • Movie Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Lists
  • The moderated SCREEN-L mailing list, gatewayed to USENET as bit.listserv.screen-l

The Film Industry

• News:
  • The Hollywood Reporter [daily]
  • BoxOffice magazine [monthly]
    • Films in the Works
  • Coming Attractions (news/gossip about films in progress)
  • In Hollywood (inside info about films in production, paid subscription required for full access)
  • indieWIRE (independent film news)

• Revenues:
  • US/Canada Box Office totals from last weekend, from MovieWeb
  • Box Office Guru (current and historical data)
  • Worldwide Box Office totals

• Publicity:
  • MovieWEB: sneak previews, trailers, etc.
  • Hollywood Online: more stuff
  • FilmZone

• Studios and Distributors:
  • Alliance Communications [Canada]
  • Walt Disney Pictures
  • Gaumont [France]
  • MGM/United Artists
  • Miramax Films
  • October Films
  • Paramount Pictures
  • Sony Pictures Entertainment
  • Universal Pictures
  • Warner Bros.
  • etc.

• Festivals:
  • Festival de Cannes (May 7-18, 1997):
    Official Site
    Film Scouts
  • Three Rivers Film Festival (Pittsburgh, November, 1999)
  • Pittsburgh Jewish-Israel Film Festival (February, 2000)

  Also:

  Film Festivals on the WWW (Mark Litwak)
  Virtual Film Festival
  The Festival Circuit (Film.com)
  The Film Festivals Server
  Canadian Film Festivals

• Merchandising:
  • CyberCinema (movie posters)
  • Entertainment Connection
  • Movie Madness

• Guilds and Associations:
  • The (US) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:
    • 69th Academy Award Nominations (to be awarded March 27, 1997) (courtesy AMPAS)
    • Past Academy Award winners and nominees
  • American Film Institute
  • Association of Independent Video & Filmmakers
  • British Kinematograph Sound And Television Society (BKSTS)
  • Directors Guild of America
  • Independent Film and Video Alliance (Canada)
  • Writers Guild of America
  • Hollywood Foreign Press Assocation:
    1996 Golden Globe Award (Nominations)
  • Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

• Around the World:
  • CinemaBrazil
  • France Cinema
  • Movieworld Hong Kong
  • Showdata (South Africa)

Independent Production & Training

• IndieFilms
• Chicago Filmmakers
• Sundance Institute

Theatre facts

• Dolby Sound:
  • Dolby WWW site, including:
    • Dolby and THX -- How they work together

• DTS:
  • DTS Theatrical site, including:
    • Worldwide theatre locations
  • Some info about Digital Theater Sound

• THX:
  • THX WWW site, including:
    • THX Theatre Certification
    • THX Theatre database
  • THX - What it is and is Not (Laura Ackley post)
  • THX Trailers [audio]

• SDDS:
  • Official SDDS site
  • Info on Sony Dynamic Digital Sound

Other film-related resources

• Movies on TV: American Movie Classics (AMC), The Independent Film Channel, The Sundance Channel, & Turner Classic Movies (TCM) [USA]
• Microsoft's Cinemania Online [updated weekly]
• CinemaSpace, a journal-to-be on Cinema and New Media (from the Film Studies Program at UC Berkeley)
• The Independent Film and Video Makers Internet Resource Guide
• Film.com, designed for (and by) film critics, film industry professionals, and movie buffs
• The Depth Probe archive
• Bright Lights Film Journal
• Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture