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chef's picks

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Reflections:

21 cinematographers at work

The book I wrote on cinematography has just been published by the ASC Press

Table of Contents in pdf

Sample Chapter in pdf (low res images)

the very best source of cinema information

• Internet Movie Database (UK)

• Internet Movie Database (USA)

IMDB is the best example of what the internet could be: a database grown by its users.

• Cinerama movie review engine

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chef's picks

• my list of great directors with links

• my list of great films

• cineparlance articles & interviews about & of directors

• cinematography my links for a technical art form

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searching for cinema

• Scaruffi's list of cinema magazine

• Cinemedia comprehensive search

• Yahoo's movies and films

• Yahoo's movie magazines

• Indie network

• Clamen's Movie Info

• cinema-sites

• cinematography.net

• cyber film school

• Hong Kong movies

• Movie Posters archive

• TV Guide's super search accesses Motion Picture Guide

• Michael Mills' Palace site an ode to classic Hollywood

• Film Site's search

• Concordia's links scholarly

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film reviews and more

• Cinerama's recent reviews

• rec.arts.movies.reviews

• Cinerama movie review engine

• filmzone

• Roger Ebert the "thumbs" guy gives decent reviews

• film.com reviews and background

• girls on film

• L A Times Movie Section reviews and news

• LA Times recent reviews

• deep focus Bryant Frazer's intelligent & sensible reviews- somewhat slanted towards horror genre

• The Village Voice brief, sophisticated, sometimes elitist

• roughcut's 250 reviews the dollar rating system! also jpegs and trailers

• premiere's feature click on Libby for her uniquely sartorial reviews

• film scouts short reviews of cannes and new york festival films

• box office

• Criterion collection Voyager's nicely-documented selection of great movies

• Microsoft's Sidewalk

• Film Site's Greatest Films detailed plot and some dialogue of Hollywood classics

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show business news

• Reuters/Variety Daily Summary

• Studio Briefing

• Variety

• Nando Times Entertainment

• Studio Briefing (imdb)

• Hollywood Reporter (summaries are free)

• aint-it-cool-news sometimes has scoops

• film.com

• hollywood on-line

• Variety's slang amusing

• filmmaker magazine

• Berlin Film Festival

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cinema newsgroups and mailing lists

• about scrnwrit-l

• rec.arts.movies

• cinema-l

• misc.writing.screenplays

• alt.cult-movies

• cinema-l archives

• rec.arts.movies.production

• alt.movies.kubrick

• subscription info

• rec.arts.movies.tech

• cinematography.net

• frameworks list & archive

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worth noting

• Ricky Leacock my mentor's site

• BlairWitch Project site

• La Patinoire A real attempt to marry cinema and internet. Check it out

• the writer's guild has a nice site

• filmbooks has a some good books listed

• movie clichés list hilarious & all too true

• National Film Registry US selection of films to be preserved

• The Vow of Chastity made by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vintenberg and others forbids lighting, props and "superficial action" like murders

• Dogma 95 explains the need for this sobriety

• Variety's slang amusing

• George Lucas in the Wired interview of 2/97

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