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- https://www.sky.com/tv/channel/skycinema
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources, Reviews, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
This provides a week of listings on UK movie channels such as Sky Movies, Film Four, TCM and The Studio as well as movie reviews and movie trivia and a fairly large section devoted to film trailers which will require MediaPlayer to view. The site can best be described as functional, but it completely lacks the breadth and depth of other online TV guides such as Digiguide, What’s on the BBC and it doesn’t even come close to the BUFVC’s own TRILT service.
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- http://tlweb.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/screeningthepast/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Journals, Vacancies/Careers
Online film studies journal based in Australia that provides serious but not overly jargonistic articles, reviews of the latest books and films and information on international conferences and even runs job adverts. It also includes links to around forty other sites. It is certainly one of the most straightforward and enjoyable of the many film studies e-journals currently available.
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- https://www.bfi.org.uk/lean/index.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Reviews, Streaming/Download
This site celebrates the life and work of British film director and editor, David Lean. Most of the materials are taken from the British Film Institute’s Special Collections and include jpegs of press books, stills, reviews, scripts, designs and correspondence. All his films as director as well as many on which he served as editor are analysed and many extracts from the films themselves can can be viewed either with RealPlayer or Windows MediaPlayer.
Please note that this resource is currently as an old site. David Lean’s films can be watched via the BFIplayer, with a subscription.
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- https://www.britmovie.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases
Dedicated to British cinema, this site includes a number of mini biographies of prominent actors, directors and technicians as well as studios. There are also entries for hundreds of films that can be searched alphabetically or by genre, as well as a number of useful forums where fans can exchange views and information.
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- https://archive.org/.php
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Advertising, Agriculture, American Studies, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Business Studies, Chemistry, Classics, Computing, Crafts, Current Affairs, Dance, Dentistry, Design, Development Studies, Drama, Economics, Education, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Ethnology, Film Studies, Food, French Studies, General Science, Genetics, Geography, Geology, German Studies, History, Information Studies, Languages, Law, Literature, Mathematics, Media Studies, Medicine, Music, Nature, Photography, Physics, Politics and Government, Psychiatry, Psychology, Radio Studies, Religious Studies, Russian Studies, Social Welfare, Sports Science, Technology, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources
Part of the Internet Archive, which also covers archived moving images (The Internet Moving Images Archive), audio and software, the Wayback Machine holds cached versions of thousands of websites and billions of pages, allowing users to look at sites that are no longer available or at earlier versions of ones that are still around. An invaluable resource that, due to the gigantic nature of the holdings, is slightly hampered by the fact that no list of the holdings can be easily provided. This means inevitably that correct recall of the URL in question is necessary, or failing that, searching for it on the web first.
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- http://www.nfdb.nl/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources
Available in both Dutch and English-language versions, the database can be searched by title, personality and organisation and lists over 20,000 individual film and television titles. These searches can also be refined quite narrowly by year, genre and even by whether the film is in colour or not. The entries are brief but to the point and all entries are properly and thoroughly cross-indexed.
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- http://www.filmcentre.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases
Aimed at budding filmmakers, this rather overpopulated website includes a searchable database of over 7,000 short films as well as useful advice on legal matters, a glossary of technical film terms, a list of upcoming film festivals and a large section devoted to the hiring of equipment and film crews, although this is organised alphabetically by first name and not by surname. Despite the less than stellar layout and occasional eccentricities, the hundreds of CVs and variety of listings make this a very worthwhile site. (NB In June 2011 the short film and crew databases were ‘temporarily offline’.
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- http://www.movie-film-review.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Reviews
Previously a subscription service known as Tookeys Film Guide, this is now advert-supported and therefore much more accessible. It remains a fairly large and certainly up-to-date database, detailing the often eccentric opinions of film critic Christopher Tookey which can be searched by title, personality, year, keyword and genre. It also provides a very useful sampling of opinions by other critics as well as a rather dubious rating system. Now includes some of Tookey’s BBC Radio broadcasts.
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- https://www.alevelmedia.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Courses, Information Sources
This continually evolving website was set up in 2010 by a teacher/examiner in Media and Film Studies to support students taking GCSE, AS and A-levels in the subject. It contains Powerpoints, pdfs and lots of videos and links to help students with revision, as well as lesson plans, schemes of work and free downloadable resources for teachers.
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- http://www.saulbass.tv/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Design, Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Website which is dedicated to the work of director, film titles designer and graphic artist Saul Bass. The main site includes clips from the titles sequences of many of his films, including Casino, Vertigo, Man with the Golden Arm and Psycho as well as stills and a very detailed filmography. This resource. created by Brendan Dawes, originally housed Psycho Studio, an interactive project which allowed the user to re-edit the famous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho, which is sadly no longer available.
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