public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags film & culture

September 2006

The House Next Door

thoughtful and substantial essays on TV shows and current and foreign films; excellent set of links on right side to film blogs and other Intenet film resources

Continuum Contents

online film journal from Australia

August 2006

The Tangled Web of Syriana

a fun chart illustrating the plot and connections between characters of a good political film

Upperstall.com - A Better View of Indian Cinema

analytic writing about Indian cinema; a good place to start if you want to start looking at films from India in a serious way

July 2006

davekehr.com

contains seventy film reviews by important reviewer

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Ed Halter's reviews of avant-garde film, often for the Village Voice, and his observations on the experimental film world

rogerebert.com :: FRONTPAGE (xhtml)

by 2 others
a newspaper and tv film reviewer with consistently good writing over many years

DREAMS OF A NATION

resources and information on Palestinian cinema

Posthegemony

cultural theory, literature, media--from the perspective of a Latin Americanist

Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog

a relatively new film studies blog, reviews texts, offers syllabi

SAWNET: Cinema

database of Southeast Asian women filmmakers and their films

Internet Archive

by 35 others
"The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."

timescape syllabus

course outline with interesting links, especially lecture notes: "Since the birth of cinema, architectural and urban space, and ideas of landscape have played a crucial role in the visual representation of space on screen."

cinematicfilm experimental film video art

by 1 other
database of experimental film available on web, over 1000 films

Film-Philosophy ejournal

by 3 others
has critical discussions from readers, with past entries summarized; good roundup of current journal and publications

City of Sadness by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

a large hypertextual site with an analysis of the Taiwan classic film in its various aspects, especially social/historical and aesthetic; an early example of the possibilities of using the Internet for in-depth film analysis and yet to be surpassed

My Writing on Film (Fred Camper)

excellent essays on avant-garde film

Cineaste

long running left film journal; many of its reviews online; good links page

independentfilms.org

by 1 other
for and about independent films and filmmakers