Great+Film+Websites

In addition to the usual plot summaries, reviews, and background information for current movies, the British Broadcasting Corporation presents short interviews with actors and film directors. One of the most widely used film archives on the Web, the IMDB features a searchable database of over 260,000 film and television productions made since 1892. Users can also find thousands of articles about the industry, movie stars, and new releases. The site includes themes message boards, trivia games, and an extensive photo gallery. For those who want inside information, there is a section users must pay for with links to business contacts and hundreds of movies in production. Frankly commercial, like its telephone counterpart, Moviefone.com gives showtimes for all movies in theatrical release. You can see what’s playing in your neighborhood by theater, title, or genre. The site also offers lots of peppy features about the stars and events of human interest behind the screen. Now that America Online, Inc., owns the site, AOL users have access to additional features. This is the first place to go for a comprehensive listing of film reviews on the Internet. More than 36,000 titles are available, plus convenient links to film festivals, recent releases, and the most popular recent movies. Subscribers have free access to the newspaper’s impressive archives as well as current film reviews. Each review includes a listing of cast and crew. If you’re looking to compare reviews, this is the place to come. Search a recent title and the site displays quotations from scores of film reviews with links to full texts. The reviews are culled from regular print and online sources. A tomatometer rating summarizes the film’s total score, showing the percentage of reviews that consider it fresh or rotten. Here you’ll find links to dozens of famous film scripts and transcripts, many downloadable. For some titles, you can compare early drafts with revisions and the final shooting script. If you’re looking for more depth, consult this valuable resource by Tim Dirks. Originally conceived as a guide to the “100 Best Films”, it has expanded to include hundreds more film titles from classical Hollywood as well as topics such as movie genres, film terms, and star filmographies. Dirks writes with a lively style and thickens his articles with fascinating production information as well as generous selections from movie scripts.
 * BBC Films** [|www.bbc.co.uk/films/]
 * The Internet Movie Database** [|www.imdb.com]
 * Moviefone** [|www.moviefone.com/]
 * Movie Review Query Engine** [|www.mrqe.com]
 * New York Times Current Movies** [|www.nytimes.com/pages/movies/index.html]
 * Rotten Tomatoes** [|www.rottentomatoes.com/]
 * Drew’s Script-O-Rama** [|www.script-o-rama.com]
 * The Greatest Films** [|www.filmsite.org]

[] This website includes examples of student-made videos and instructions on how to teach video making in the classroom. Materials are included for creating and assessing videos.  [] This video is the theatrical trailer for Citizen Kane, and an excellent introduction to not only the characters in the film but some of the commonly used devices and the film style of the time.  [] This is a link to a trivia game using information from award winning films.  [] This is a website where you can create custom quizzes on Buster Keaton’s life and films.  //[] //This is by far the best website I found on Buster Keaton, and it is packed with great information on top of being well-designed, visually attractive and very up-to-date.  //[] //This website has great information on the Oscar nominees for any given year. You can also print a ballot and vote for your own favorites.