Film Pal

• Check these impressive WSU-subscribed databases, including AVON (Academic Videos Online), for accessible streaming platforms
• Bioscope: Early and Silent Cinema (excellent)
• Blaxploitation films 1, Blax 2, Shaft / Richard Roundtree Obit
• Regeneration. Black Cinema 1898-1971 (DAI 2024), Regeneration 2
• The Inventor and the Tycoon (on E Muybridge)
• Louis LePrince. The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
• Filmmonthly (useful)
• Virtual Film History
• Bibliography on African Americans in Film
• reelviews, beradinelli sees film
• Henry Sheehan—Film criticism
• Rotten Tomatoes
• The Greatest Films (Landmarks in Classic Hollywood)
• The Road to Gloria Steinem, excellent 5-part podcast including sections on The Woman Who Will Not Die (Marilyn Monroe) and The King of Hollywood (Clark Gable)
• Sundance Institute/Film Festival
• Hollywood Renegades Archive
• WSU Stewart Library Film Resources
• Planet Bollywood I,II, III, IV (NPR), V
• SciFlicks.com, 25 classic Sci-Fi Films
• Corrigan/White, The Film Experience (including student samples, etc.)
• The 15 points of mise-en-scene
• Resources for Teaching Film (useful summaries, exercises, etc.)
• Resources for Teaching Documentary Film
• History of Film I, II, III
• Lumiere Brothers I, II
• Early Cinema
• Thomas Edison Papers, Contemporary German Film, Hitler's Hollywood
• Alternative film guide
• Treasure III: Social Issues in American Film
• MUSICALS - The Trippy World of 1930s Musicals, 1940s Musicals
• Film Adaptations I, II, III
• Bright Lights — popular-academic hybrid
• The Inventor and the Tycoon (on E Muybridge), Edward Muybridge I
  => Nope and Muybridge (Jordan Peele, 2022), Exposing Muybridge (2022)
• 28 Days, 28 Films for Black History Month (2018)
• GreenCine Primers
• Hays Production Code I, II, III
• Sloan Science & Film (Museum of the Moving Image)

• Senses of Cinema (including Great Directors)
• Sound in Film, Tape recorder in film I–III
• Kino International
• The Internet Movie Data Base
• Filmbug.com
• Film Adaptations of Books (NPR audio )
• 31 Movies Based on Short Stories
• Welcome to Silent Movies
• Silent Ladies & Gents: Photogallery of Silent Movie Stars(wonderful stills and, at times, movies posters)
• Film Comment (Film Society of Lincoln Center)
• Swathmore Film and Media Studies
• Cinemaspace – UC-Berkeley film studies
• Filmmaker Magazine
• A Biologist Goes to the Cinema
• Sight & Sound
• sightandsign.com: Let's Talk European
• New York Times Movie Reviews
• New York Times Critics' Picks
• Women and Film
  - Women in Hollywood (2009)
  - Pioneers: The First Woman Filmmakers (2018)
  - Women Film Pioneers Project (Columbia U)
• Yahoo Movies & Film directory
• Best of the Web
• Radiolab
• On the Lack of Memorable One-Liners :)
• Film Stars and their Salaries
• Typewriter in Film
• How Digital is Changing the Nature of Movies (NYT)
• MUBI -- curated online cinema
• Understanding Art House, Nerdwriter1
• Movies, Meet Theme Park
• The First and Final Frames
• The Enduring Impact of Jazz on American Film
• Let's Go to the Movies. The Mechanics of Moving Images

• Senses of Cinema Great Directors (useful)
• Film Noir I, II, III, IV, Maltese Falcon I, MF II, Big Sleep I, Double Indemnity I, Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), Tape recorder in film I–III, 25 Noirs Films That Will Stand the Test of Time; Women Crime Writers of the 1940s & 50s; Crash Course on Film Noir: In A Lonely Place
• Wes Anderson, [to be built out one day];
  Roald Dahl  tretralogy 1 (2023); tetralogy 2; 
• Billy Wilder, "The Making of Billy Wilder" (Paris Review 2021)
• Jean Vigo, JV-Great Directors, Zero de Conduite, L'Atalante I, L'Atalante II, L'Atalante III
• French New Wave, FNW I, FNW II, FNW III, Two in a Wave (documentary 2009), Jean Luc Godard: NYT-Topics, Godard & Anti-Semitism?; JLG - Obituary
• Italian Neorealism, The Bicycle Thief
• Bernardo Bertolucci, 1900 Revisited
• Damien Chazelle, Babylon - Guide to Characters (2022)
• The Western, I, II, III, NYTM-Western Special (Nov 07)
• James Cameron, Avatar (NYT), A II (Tele), A III (NYT), A IV (NYT) A & Digital Film (NYT), A & 3-D—again, A & Smoking, A & Depression, JC Bio & Films, A & the Vatican, Turncoats as Heroes
• Christian Carion, Joyeux Noël (2005, official site)
• Ingmar Bergman (NYT obituary, 30 July 2007)
• Kathryn Bigelow, KB & The Hurt Locker, HL II,
• Orson Welles, Citizen Kane I, CK II, CK III, WRHearst I, WRH II, Touch of Evil (NYT-CP); David Fincher, Mank (2020), Mank II, Mank III
• Charlie Chaplin, CC I, Modern Times, City Lights; Laughing at Nazis and The Great Dictator
• Francis Ford Coppola, FFC (Salon 1999); TIME-Interview 07, The Conversation(NYT-CP)
  Apocalpyse Now (1979, full movie); Apocalypse Now - FFC commentary (Complete Dossier, 2006); AP: Redux script
  FFC - Great Directors, , Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991, full film); HD: AFA II; I-FFC on Marlon Brando (); I-FFC on AN 40 years after (2019); Walter Murch Special: Apocalypse Now (2009); Sound Design II; Sound Design III; Sound Design IV; 
  Reflections on Coppola,  Director's Cuts, and Apocalypse Now Redux (2001); FFC-Apocalypse Now Is Not an "Anti-War" Film (2019);  Is Apocalypse Now: Final Cut the Best Version"   (2019); Apocalypse Now Analysis (Part 1 +)
  Feeling Seen: Whose Apocalypse Now? (Phuong Le, 2019 => FFC's response)
• Alex Garland, Annihilation, Anni 2, Anni 3,
• Gilliam, Terry, Brazil (NYT-CP),
• Guavara-Flanagan, Kristy, Body Parts 1, BP 2, BP 3
• Michael Haneke, The Films of Michael Haneke, White Ribbon I, White Ribbon II
• Todd Haynes, The Visually Rich Cinema of Todd Haynes; Todd Haynes Film Rankings; Carol (2015) Carol II;  Far From Heaven, FFH II (2002); The Velvet Underground (2021); May December 1 (2023), May December 2
  Carol (2015) Carol II; Carol soundtrack; Phillis Nagy on Carol (2017); Gender and Sexuality in Carol; A Color Theory Reading of Carol
  
  <=> Guide to Every Patricia Highsmith Adaptation:
  - PH/Claire Morgan, The Price of Salt (1952)
  - Hossein Amini, The Two Faces of January (2014)
• Werner Herzog, NYT-Talk with WH (March 2020); WH's Fever Dreams - The Twilight World (2022); TTW II; Every Man For Himself (2023)
• Alfred Hitchcock, AH I, AH II, AH III, AH IV, AH V, Vertigo (NYT-CP), The Moment of Psycho, Johan Grimonprez, Double Take
  => Who is Oskar Sala?, Oskar Sala, the mixture Trautonium, and The Birds, II
• Dennis Hopper, NYT obit
• Krystof Kieslowski I, II, III (Three Colours Trilogy)
• Abbas Kiarostami, Taste of Cherry (1997)
• Stanley Kubrick, SK Multimedia Filmguide , SK Warner Bros. Authorized Site, SK: The Master Film Maker and The Alt.Movies.Kubrick Dr. Strangelove, SK and the Cold War; Radiolab: A Look Up and Down the U.S. Nuclear Chain of Command
  - Room 237 (doc about The Shining)
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• Dan Gilroy, Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) <=> Terry Zwigoff, Art School Confidential (2006)

• Akiri Kurosawa, Rashomon (NPR), Ran(NYT-CP)
• Fritz Lang, M, Metropolis Restored Once More, "Complete" Metropolis
• Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men, NYT–SL on SL, NYT-SL II
• Mira Nair, MN--Filmmaker of the Month and MN Films (The Spool, Jan 21); Monsoon Wedding I, MW II, MW III, MW IV
  - Irrfan in The Namesake:  The Art of Body Language
  - How the Beatles Experimented with Indian Music
• Christopher Nolan, The Movies. The Memories
• Andre Niccol, Gattaca (NYT-CP),
• Jordan Peele, US (2019) 1, US 2, US 3
• Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion (NYT-CP), Illusion 2; Rules of the Game (NYT-CP)
• Polanski, Roman, Chinatown (NYT-CP), Sam Wasson, The Big Goodbye/ Chinatown (2020); R.D. Heath on Chinatown (2002); Chinatown on the Big Screen (2019), Chinatown (DFR, 2012); Legacy of a Hollywood Classic (2021)
• Guy Ritchie, The Gentlemen (2019)
• Eric Rohmer, I, II
• Bryan Singer, The Usual Suspects I,
• Steven Spielberg, A. I., "The Fascinating True (and Not So True) Story Behind Catch Me If You Can [2002]"
• Preston Sturges, I
• Alex Proyas, Dark City, I, Robot
• King Vidor, Life of KV, The Crowd I, II, III, IV;
  The Erotic Passion and Biblical Fury of Ruby Gentry (2022)
• George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck
• (CLASSICAL) INDIAN FILM: Satyajit Ray, The Apu Trilogy, Retrospective, Mani Ratnam, Raavan, Raj Kaipoor at MoMa (2012)
• Eric Rohmer, Looking Behind Éric Rohmer’s Cinematic Style (New Yorker 2021)
• German Expressionism, I , II, III, IV, Weimar Films
• Guillermo del Toro I
• David Fincher, Benjamin Button I, lll—loosely related links: Fitzgerald Film Adaptations, Fitzgerald as Screenwriter
• John Hillcoat, The Road I
• Singing in the Rain (NYT-CP)
• Zhao Liang, Filming China's Dark Side (NYT)
• John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate (1962, NYT)
• Richard Linklater, RL I, RL II — Detour, RL II, RLIII (D & C), RL IV (Scanner), RL V (Scanner), RL VI, RL VII, RL VIII (Inning), RL-Lit
• Hal Ashby & Haskell Wexler
• Martin Scorcese, Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Flower Moon 2, Flower Moon 3, FM 4, 
   Guide to Osage Murders; 
• Denis Villeneuve, Dune (2021) => "Race Consciousness: Race Consciousness and Frank Herbert's Dune"
  Dune, Part Two (2024), Dune, Part Two: Refresher, The Sound of Dune :)
  Frank Herbert, Dune, and Early Environmentalism
• Wim Wenders, Restauration/30-year re-release of Der Himmel uber Berlin/Wings of Desire (1987, in German)
• Celeste Cg,  A Short History of Chinese-American Women on Screen 
  - Michelle Yeoh, martial artist and the multiverse . . . (2022), II, III, IV
• Why Are There So Few Black Directors in the Criterion Collection?
• First 3 Minutes of Boogie Nights  (1997)
• Edward Berger, All Quiet on the Western Front (2022, Slate), All Quiet II
• Lilly and Lana Wachowski, Here is Why The Matrix is More Relevant Than Ever (2024)

• Susan Sonntag, Fascinating Fascism(on the film-making and other myths of Leni Riefenstahl, NYTBR Feb 1975)
• The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 (Hays Code)
• Umberto Eco, "Casablanca, or The Cliches are Having a Ball"; Casablanca's Victor Laszlo
• Selling Brokeback Mountain
• Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I (2000)
• Wachowski/Gilliam, V for Vendetta (2006) vs. Brazil (1985)
• Hergé and Film
• Werner Herzog Profile and Rescue Team
• Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler
• Film making in Syria (slide show and audio commentary) (The New Yorker)
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit—a 50-year retrospective (The New Yorker)
• Hollywood Heresy: Marketing The DaVinci Code to Christians (The New Yorker)
• Robin Hardy, The Wicker Man (1973)
• The Third Man on the Web
• Andrew Sarris I, II, Pauline Kael I, Laura Mulvey I, II, III
• The Convoluted Politics of Zombie Cinema
• Valentino, The Sheik, and Orientalism
• The 1920s Egyptian Craze (including Ogden Peery's Egyptian Theater)
• One-Shot Films (2019)
• Deep Throat (1972), 50 years after
• Sam Mendes, 
• Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), A Question of Perspective; Flower Moon: From Page to Screen (podcast)
• What Chinese Outrage of "3 Body Problem" Says About China (2024) 
• Wong Kar Wai, In The Mood for Love (2000) Revisited

SOUND SNIPPETS

• Watch It for the Soundtrack: Alexander Nevsky (1938)
• The Sound of Dune, Part Two :) (2024)
• Oscar Nominees for Best Film Score (NPR, 3/24)
   
• East Germany on the screen
• African-American Writers and pre-1950 cinema
• A French Cinema of Denial? (NYT)
• Biting Passion (on Vampire films, NYT)
• Alexander Sokurov, Russian Ark I, II, III
• Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris (NYT-CP), Stalker (Geoffrey Dyer, Zona)
• Andrzej Wajda, Katyn I, Katyn II, Katyn massacre, Man of Marble/Man of Iron, Promised Land <=> Cinema of Poland, Communist-era Polish Film Posters
• Widely-read film critics/blogs, David Bordwell I, DB II, Fred Camper, Jim Emerson, davekehr, Roger Ebert, zoom-in, cinemetrics
• Studio Babelsberg (and Quention Tarrantino)
• '60s Hollywood: The Rebels and the Studios
• The 10 Best Philip K. Dick Movies That Aren't Actually PKD movies
  - Blade Runner and Los Angeles, Then and Now (2019)
• David Thompson, The Big Screen (2012)
• Nerdwriter1, Snow Piercer (2013)
• Thom Andersen and Noel Burch, Red Hollywood (2014)
• David Thomson, Warner Brothers: The Making of An American Movie Studio (2017)
• Ramin Bahrani, Fahrenheit 451 as a Book for the Age of Social Media (5/18); Viet Thanh Nguyen, "American Hustle," on Chop Shop
• My Impossible Mission to Find Tom Cruise (2023)
• One Love - Bob Marley, From Rebel to Retail (2024)

• Writing About Film (including links)
• Film Editing Terms
• Watching Films with TT and Dan , Apple (podcast)

• A Glossary of Film Terms
• Bordwell/Thompson, Film Art
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• Corrigan/White, The Film Experience

• Directory of International Film Festivals
• Munich
• Cannes

• Sundance
• Venice (La Biennale)
• Toronto

• Tribeca
• Berlinale
• Telluride

• Czechoslovakia — Kolya (1996)
• Denmark/Europe, Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
• France/Belgium — Lumumba (2000), L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934), I've Loved You So Long (Phillipe Claudel, 2009)
• Germany — Enlightenment Guaranteed (2002), King of Thieves (Netherlands/Germany, 2004), Cherry Blossoms (2008), The Edukators (2005, Downfall (2004), A Woman in Berlin (2008), The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008), Die Welle (The Wave, director..) (2008)
• Iran — Children of Heaven (1997), Ten (2004), The Kite Runner (Marc Forster, 2007), Taste of Cherry (1997), How Iranian Filmmakers like Asghar Farhadi Defy the Censors (2017)
• Japan, Black Rain (1989)
• Korea — Spring, Summer . . . (2003), Natural City (2004); My Name is Loh Kiwan (2024), Loh Kiwan 2; 
• Kodachrome ( Mark Raso, 2017) => A.G. Sulzberger, "For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas";  Steve McCurry. 
• Mercury 13 (2019, including fact check)

• Spain — The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
• Turkey — Distant (2003)
• Russia — The Italian (2007), Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
• Documentary — Man on Wire (2008), Restrepo (2010)
• U.S., Dirty Harry (NYT, Don Siegel, 1971), Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938), C.S.A. (Kevin Willmott, 2005), The Player (Robert Altman, 1994), Jaws and Tintin's Adventures (Steven Spielberg), Falling Down (Joel Schumacher, 1993), The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011), Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011), Who's That Knocking at My Door (Martin Scorsese, 1967)
• Dheepan (2015) <=> M Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000)
  Bollywood and Indian Elections (Con 4/24)
• Vietnam  — Song Lang I, II (instrument); 

• Diverseeds: Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, dir. Markus Schmidt and Camillo Meinhardt, QK86.A1 D584 2008
• Field of Genes (CBC, 1998), SB123.57 .F529 1998 (VHS, 2 x 22 min)
• Food Beware — The French Organic Revolution, dir. Jean-Paul Jaud (2009) TP 370. F663 2009
• Food Inc., dir. Robert Kenner, HD9005 .F66 2009
• Fast Food Nation, dir. Richard Linklater
• Fresh, (What's the Matter with Corn Syrup?) (NYT, April 2010)
• The Garden, dir. Scott Hamilton Kennedy (2008), SB 457.3 G 37 2008
• Hopi — corn is life, 1997, E99.H7 H67 1997 (VHS, 18 min)

last updated, 12 September 2024

• Genetics in Food: Changing Mother Nature (CBC, 2000), S494.5 .B563 G4 2000 (VHS, 14 min, similar to Field of Genes)
• How to Read and Use Food Labels, TX 335 .H68 1994 (VHS, useful, 15 min)
• How to Read the New Food Labels, TX 551. H 64 1993
• Supersize Me, dir. Morgan Spurlock (2004), TX 945.5 M33 S87 2004
• Sweet Solutions, TP 376 . S9 1979 (VHS, 54 min, mostly about sugar operations in Brazil)
• on You Tube: Genetic Chile, The World According to Monsanto, Genetically Modified Food: Panacea or Poison; numerous videos with Michael Pollan