News, Theory, and Criticism

 

Cinema Articles, Notebooks, Magazines, Blogs, Etc.

  • Acquarello – Strictly Film School - A collection of cinema studies, articles, readings, and media by a NASA flight systems design engineer.
  • The Art of Memory - Minimal Film, Music, Literature, Poetry, Art.
  • Cahiers du Cinema - A french film magazine founded in April 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Joseph-Marie Lo Duca and Leonid Keigel.
  • Cinema Scope - Cinema Scope is one of the most respected English-language publications on film worldwide. Packed with reviews, essays, festival reports, and interviews, Cinema Scope is geared to cinephiles looking for an intelligent forum on world cinema.
  • David Bordwell’s Website on Cinema – Personal website of Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
  • Dennis Grunes - Dennis Grunes is a film scholar and historian with a blog on wordpress.com, to which he is adding new entries daily. Reportedly watching an average of 4 to 5 films a day, he is widely consider one the most prolific film essayist in the world.
  • The Daily Notebook [Mubi.com] - A new kind of film coverage. The Notebook combines the scope and variety of a magazine with the daily content of a blog. Current, global, comprehensive—always. Their contributor based approach provides many difference voices, critical approaches, geographic locations, and interests. Find the ones that speak to you.
  • Diagonal Thoughts - Some notes on seeing and being, sound and image, media and memory by Critical Film Studies professor.
  • Film Studies for Free - Film Studies For Free actively espouses the ethos of Open Access to digital scholarly material. It aims to promote good quality, online, film and moving-image studies resources by commenting on them, and by linking to them.
  • Framework - The journal of cinema and media.
  • Handmade Cinema – A guide to the people, practices and themes of artisanal moving image production.
  • Images - A non-commercial website created for everyone who enjoys movies and popular culture.
  • Jonathan Rosenbaum – Personal blog of film critic/writer Jonathan Rosenbaum (formerly of the Chicago Reader).
  • Landscape Suicide - Descriptive Zoopraxography.
  • Moving Image Source - Museum of the Moving Image.
  • Preservation Insanity – Film preservation journal/blog.
  • Sense of Cinema - An online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema.
  • /Film - “Blogging the reel world.” A very active and recognized industry blog.
  • Sounds, Images - Cinema blog of ‘At the Movies’ co-host Ignatiy Vishnevetsky.
  • Ways of Seeing – A Turkish filmaker’s personal website that includes information on his videos, blog, writings on film & art, and lists of favorite films & filmmakers.