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David Bordwell’s Website on Cinema
This is the homepage for the influential film academic David Bordwell who, together with his wife Kristin Thompson, has written many of the most enduring of Film Studies textbooks written in the last 30 years. The site, which includes a blog by the two authors, brings together a broad range of film-related information along with articles and reviews.

Documentary Films.net
Founded in 1998 and relaunched in 2006, this site provides documentary film information and resources to both viewers and filmmakers. Run by volunteers and enthusiasts, the site is community-based, encouraging users to add information on documentary films, festivals, events and resources to relevant sections of the site and discuss issues in the Forum. In addition, Documentary Films .Net provides information on documentaries via sections entitled: Film Central reviews, film releases, updates on upcoming films, and essays on various aspects of documentary films); Resource and Festival Directory; Film Directory (a documentary review database to which anyone can contribute).

New Video
New Video is a leading US distributor and aggregator of independent digital content. The company delivers feature films, TV programmes and web originals via digital download, streaming media, video-on-demand, Blu-ray and DVD, and theatrical release. New Video’s library includes TV series and movies from cable channels A+E Home Entertainment, History and Lifetime, award-winning documentaries under the Docurama Films brand, and ‘next-gen indies and web originals’ under the Flatiron label. Preview, DVD sale or download via the website. The website also includes a blog featuring filmmaker interviews and industry news.

TheWebinarvet.com
Thewebinarvet.com was set up to answer a need for good quality, easily accessible CPD for busy, practising vets. Participation in live weekly webinars, with lectures given by experts from all fields of veterinary practice, is open to members, and audio and video recordings are subsequently available for purchase by non-members.

Trailers from Hell
This amusing and exceptionally well-informed resource is the brainchild of director and movie buff Joe Dante. It brings together classic and not-so-classic film trailers and then provides introductions and audio commentaries for them from a wide variety of film industry professionals including such notable movie makers as Dante himself, Edgar Wright, John Landis, Guillermo del Toro, Mary Lambert, John Sayles and Roger Corman, amongst others. The site can be searched by film title or by the name of the person providing the commentary. The range of films is very broad so that one can hear some straightforward praise as when director John Badham discusses the trailer for To Kill a Mockingbird, which co-starred his sister Mary, and make-up guru Rick Baker comments on the biopic of his hero Lon Chaney, but there are also such unlikely juxtapositions as Neil Labute discussing British technicolor classic, Black Narcissus. There is also a forum and a news section.

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