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The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.
Pauline Kael
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, "A Note on the Title" (1968)

Movies I've Been Seeing
Links to these and most films named on this page are to a list of online reviews and articles, found at the Movie Review Query Engine. From there, if you need film facts, visit The Internet Movie Database
(updated 3.29.05).

In Theaters
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On VCR, DVD, or TV
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Movies of My Earliest Days
Daniel Boone: Trail Blazer (1956)
Darby O'Gill and The Little People (1959)
Don't Fence Me In (1945)
Gorgo (1961)

The Great Escape (1963)
Moon Pilot (1962)
Old Yeller (1957)
Premature Burial (1962)
South Pacific (1958)
Tom Thumb (1958)
White Christmas (1954)

 

 

Good Actors and Directors

My Favorite Movies

My Friends' Favorite Movies

Katharine Hepburn
Spencer Tracy

Steve McQueen

François Truffaut

Good On-Line Movie Places
To the best of my ability I have checked these sites for appropriate content. But things change quickly out here on the web.. If you find something that is inappropriate, please contact me.

About.com Classic Movies
Academy Awards
Africana: Blacks in American Film

The Alfred Hitchcock Scholars/ 'MacGuffin' Site
American Film Institute
American Movie Classics
Box Office

Box Office Mojo
British Film Institute
Cinetext Film Books
Classic Films

Critical Writing On Line - Queen's University
Cyber Film School
The Definitive Film Links Resource
Drew's Script-O-Rama
Epinions.com - Reviews of Movies
Facets

Film 100
The Film Geek

The Flick Philosospher
Gods Among Directors

The Greatest Films
Hollywood's America

The Hollywood Reporter
Images: AJournal
Internet Movie Database
It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie

Jeem's Cinepad
Librarians in The Movies
Making a Hollywood Film
Movie Parables: The Christian Critic

Movie Review Query Engine
Moving Image Genre-Form Guide

Mr. Cranky
The National Film Registry
The Numbers: Box Office Data

The Oracle of Bacon
Reel.com
ReelViews

Roger Ebert on the Movies
Ross Anthony's Hollywood Report Card

The Silent Artists Index
Silent Film
Sundance Resource Center

Turner Classic Movies
The Uselessness of Movies
The Worst Movies on Earth

Widescreen Movie Center
Women's Studies Film Reviews
Writers Guild of America
Writing about Film

See The Village Voice "Take 3" 2001 Film Poll.
And check out
The Village Voice Film Critic's Poll 1999 for that paper's take on the best of that year, decade and century.

Reading About Movies
. Check out the film section at Hamilton Books or Powell's.

A Biographical Dictionary of Film - David Thomson
Agee on Film - James Agee
Censored Hollywood - Frank Miller
Cinemania '97 - CD-ROM
Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary
Film Art: An Introduction
- D. Bordwell and K. Thompson
Film Comment - magazine
Film Genre Reader - Barry Keith Grant, ed.
For Keeps - Pauline Kael
Hitchcock/Truffaut - Francois Truffaut
Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s - Ed Sikov
Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror & Comedy - William Paul
Lights, Camera, Poetry - Jason Shinder ed.
Making Movies - Sidney Lumet
Premiere - magazine
Reading the Movies: Twelve Great Films and How to Teach Them - William Costanzo
Roger Ebert's Book of Film
Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film 1900-1942
- Thomas Cripps
The Silent Clowns - Walter Kerr
Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City - Nicholas Christopher
Vertigo: The Making of... - Dan Auiler
Videohound Golden Movie Retriever
The World Viewed - Stanley Cavell

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