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Stylishly-designed online ‘audio-driven’ forum for debate about theatre in London and beyond. Its archive includes forum discussions of plays, interviews, reviews and debates, including contributions from Michael Billington and Richard Eyre. Technical support is provided by the Theatre Museum. There are a few transcriptions available.
Previously known as LoveFilm, this is a UK-based subscription site for movie buffs, offering thousands of film and TV titles for on-demand online viewing via internet-connected devices.
Since its launch in 2000 as the community forum for the magazine ‘Home Cinema Choice Online’ this set of forums has grown so as to become the official community for several of the major UK consumer electronics magazines and provides a wealth of useful information, advice and reviews in this rapidly changing environment. Free registration is required. There is an extensive range of videos on shows, features, reviews, products and tutorials, and a podcast is also offered.
This growing resource of materials is aimed at media studies students and hails from the British Film Institute. It includes several thousand individual items, including biographies of British film and television personnel, including actors, writers, directors, producers, composers, cinematographers. These can be searched by name or via an alphabetical list. The database incorporates some material from the recently published Encyclopedia of British Film and from the forthcoming Reference Guide to British and Irish Film Directors and evenly covers both television and film. It also includes stills, posters, scripts and other fascinating items. One of its most exciting features is the vast amount of material that can be viewed on the site, much of which comes from the BFI’s National Film and Television Archive. This is only available to schools, colleges, universities and public libraries on their premises and not elsewhere. These include extensive clips from rare and obscure film and television titles as well as entire episodes from such classic TV shows as Fawlty Towers. The streamed material can be viewed with QuickTime, Real and Windows Media Player and cannot be downloaded for copyright reasons.
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.
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.
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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