Journals and Magazines
- Bright Lights Film Journal - an independent and irreverent journal covering an eclectic mix of film-related topics
- Cahiers du Cinema in English - The legendary French film journal now offers articles in four languages.
- Cineaste - America's leading magazine on the art and politics of film, with in-depth articles, reviews and interviews covering mainstream, independent and international film
- Cinema Journal is the official scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. (available on ProjectMuse—Moore library data base)
- Cinema Scope features articles, interviews and commentary on international cinema.
- Close Up - a British film magazine, specializing in Independent film, video and documentary
- Documentary Films a site dedicated to the non-fiction film, featuring reviews, previews and film festival coverage.
- Film Comment the magazine of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Covers current art house and independent American and International film, along with features on more esoteric or historical subjects, often tied to the programming at the Walter Reade Theater.
- Filmmaker - a magazine covering the independent cinema industry.
- Film Monthly contains a large selection of reviews of current films, home video, and television.
- Film-Philosophy - an online journal offering philosophical perspectives on film. Articles are consistently interesting, and, occasionally, abstruse.
- Images: A Journal Of Film And Popular Culture - a web journal dedicated to the analysis of the cinema of the past.
- Journal of Film and History
- Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media - a political magazine which analyzes media in terms of its larger social meaning, dealing with issues of class, gender, sexuality, and race. Recently Jump Cut has become an exclusively web-based publication and the site features a great deal of content.
- Kinoeye specializes in both academic and journalistic perspectives on European cinema.
- Millennium Film Journal - one of the earliest film publications to deal exclusively with avant-garde and experimental film
- Off Screen - Canadian film journal on world cinema, featuring a large archive of past issues with book and film reviews. Often, issues focus on a special subject, with several articles on the same topic.
- Reverse Shot - a new web-based magazine featuring reviews and articles by younger film writers
- Rouge - an intriguing mix of pieces on art cinema often by filmmakers themselves
- Senses of Cinema - a massive online journal from Australia geared toward a general, but film literate audience, covering a wide variety of topics in cinema. Along with the current issue, SOS features annotations for the Melbourne Cinémathèque's programs, profiles of great directors, and an archive of annual top ten lists.
- Screening the Past - a journal on the history of media as well as the depiction of history in photography, film and multimedia
- Sight and Sound - from the British Film Institute's, covers popular, independent and art-house international cinema
Resources
- Digital Independence
- Educational Media Reviews - aimed at teachers and educators, provides ratings for media available from educational and documentary distributors. Includes an excellent links page.
- Internet Movie Database - the most comprehensive movie research database on the Worldwide Web
- Movies-on-Dowse - for a wealth of articles, comment, info, lists, news and reviews, about all kinds of movies. MoD has something to amuse or intrigue anyone interested in the world of movies.
- Meta Critic - a good source for film reviews
- Movie Review Query Engine - another good source for film reviews
- Rotten Tomatoes - still another good source for film reviews
- University of California-Berkeley Media Resources Center - an extremely useful resource for finding citations on films, directors, national cinemas, and film history.
- Turner Classic Movies- the site provide supplemental material to enhance the channel's excellent programming, as well as a variety of entertaining features for cinephiles.
News
- Movie Release Countdown - provides advance press and news about unreleased films.
- Film Journal International
- The Hollywood Reporter - one of the major trade publications with extensive free web content.
- IndieWire - A good source of news and information on the independent film scene. (http://www.indiewire.com/)
Blogs
- David Bordwell's Website on Cinema - film scholars David Bordwell's and Kristin Thompson's cinema blog, featuring detailed analyses and readings
- Girish - an eclectic and serious-minded cinephile site.
- The House Next Door - New York Press critic Matt Zoller Seitz's blog.
Video Distribution Sources
- 1-World - Festival of Foreign Films specializes in world cinema videos.
- Digitally OBSESSED Lots of DVD reviews and new release coverage.
- DVD Beaver - an amazingly detailed and comprehensive site, providing reviews, comparisons, and technical information for DVD buffs.
- The Criterion Collection - Web site of the premier DVD distributor of important classics and contemporary films.
- Image Entertainment - one of the leading distributors of laserdiscs and DVDs.
- Masters of Cinema - an auteurist DVD site specializing in great directors.
- Netflix - an ever-expanding rental source, deals exclusively in DVDs.
Book Sources
- BookFinder.com - a "mega" search engine for out of print and used books, which allows a single unified interface search of numerous book sources on the Web.
- Best Book Buys - searches numerous booksellers and gives you a list of the best prices on titles you want, whether new or used.
Academic and Professional Organizations
- Alliance of Women Film Journalists
- International Communication Association (ICA)
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
- University Film and Video Studies Association