Try your hand at "The Extremely Hard and Incredibly Obscure Film Trivia Quiz"
CLICK HERE FOR CINEMATIC TERMS GLOSSARY. You will use these terms in your Outside-Class Film Reviews. (Terms list attached to review instructions)
PLEASE NOTE (as of 2/16/19): While Film Review lists & instructions will continue to be updated on this page as necessary, the weekly film screening calendar will NO longer be updated (Refer to Skyward for activity calendar).
UPDATED 5/5/19
1) DUE FRIDAY, 5/3 AND FRIDAY, 5/17 (Assigned 4/15): FILM REVIEW #5 AND FILM REVIEW #6 (TEST GRADES) (Submit reviews to www.turnitin.com) REMEMBER, YOU MUST USE & BOLD/UNDERLINE AT LEAST 5 KEY CINEMATIC TERMS IN YOUR REVIEW. (WEDNESDAY, 5/22: LAST DAY TO ACCEPT EITHER REVIEW FOR A LATE GRADE)
Almost ALL of the films on your review list are available for check out at the Rowlett Public Library!!! Click below to search the catalog!!!
NEED SOME HELP CHOOSING A FILM TO WATCH FOR YOUR REVIEW OR JUST FOR FUN??? GOOGLE THE TITLE PLUS THE WORD TRAILER (e.g. Citizen Kane Trailer on youtube.com), TCM.COM (search by title, then click on link and there is an option to view trailer. You will also be able to see if any air dates of the film).
IMPORTANT LINKS
Digital History - Hollywood's America
Digital History - Hollywood as History
Digital History - The Nickel Madness
Many, many links for
research & more information can be found on
Mrs. Oz's Motion Pictures
website.
EDMODO CLASS
Edmodo.com - Mrs. Osborn has your key code
to join this online class.
WHERE TO SUBMIT
YOUR OUTSIDE-CLASS FILM REVIEWS
TURN IT IN
CINEMATIC TERMINOLOGY
Cinematic Terms - A FilmMaking
Glossary
Movie
Terminology Glossary
FILM GENRES
Film Genres
Introduction - IMDb Genre
Browser -
Film Genre Chart
Looking for a movie? IMDB users vote on the
Best/Worst films by genre:
Action - Adventure -
Animation -
Biography -
Comedy -
Crime -
Documentary -
Drama -
Family -
Fantasy -
Film-Noir -
History -
Horror -
Independent -
Music -
Musical -
Mystery -
Romance -
Sci-Fi -
Short -
Sport -
Thriller -
TV mini-series -
War -
Western
Check out
IMDb Charts for Best/Worst votes in
MANY categories!
Introduction to Film Genres.mov - YouTube
MOST FAMOUS QUOTES IN FILM
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Movie
Quotes (Musical Montage) - YouTube
STREAMING DOCUMENTARY SERIES
VIDEO SERIES: American
Cinema by Annenberg Media - 10, 1-hour episodes (streaming video) on the
history and style of American Film. FABULOUS!!! Click on each episode's link for
more info/activities. Click on VoD to view the episode!
ONLINE GAMES & TRIVIA ABOUT THE MOVIES
These Amazing Shadows | Trivia for Film Geeks | Independent Lens | PBS
TCM Classic Movie Trivia Game -
Movie Trivia Quiz
Movie Quizzes and Movie
Trivia -- Fun Trivia
Movies Around the World Quiz - National Geographic
History of
Cinema and Popular Culture: Games, puzzles and quizzes
Academy Awards Trivia Quiz
- Timelines.com
THE
ULTIMATE MOVIE QUOTE TEST
FILM
REVIEWS & CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Viewing and Watching
Films Critically
Strategies
for Finding Film Reviews and Critical Analysis
Movie Review Query Engine
Movie
Review Databases
How to Cite Media
Citation Machine -- The Landmark
Project
KU Writing Center :: Writing
Guides
Writing
Guide: Introduction
Reading,
Writing, and Researching for History
A Student's Guide
to the Study of History -- Main
RESEARCH
LINKS
TURNER
CLASSIC MOVIES - You can "search by title or actor" for the
classic film you wish to review...could save you a rental or help you find a
film not available on VHS or DVD.
TCM Movie Database
Netflix - TV & movies
instantly streamed online + DVD & Blu-ray rentals -- register & you
can rent (& even view some online) ALMOST EVERY film listed on your Review
List.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - SEARCH
PAGE
Bill Douglas Centre
for the History of Cinema & Popular Culture
AFI's 100 Years
- 100 Movies List
Greatest American Movies
Series by AFI
Greatest Films - Specific
Selection Criteria
100 Greatest Films
Greatest Film or
Movie Quotes of All Time
Great Moments & Film
Scenes from the Greatest Films
Greatest Film Star
Legends
Greatest Directors and
their Best Films - Great
Directors - a critical database - Senses of Cinema
Movie
History - Filmbug
All-Time USA Box Office
Leaders
Film History by Decade
Timeline of
Influential Milestones and Turning Points in Film History: Introduction - Pre-1900s,
1900s, 1910s,
1920s, 1930s,
1940s, 1950s,
1960s, 1970s,
1980s, 1990s,
2000s
Welcome to OSCAR, OSCAR at
OscarWorld.Net - one of my favorite Oscar sites!
The Official
Academy Awards®Database - AMPAS
IMDb:
Academy Awards, USA
Academy Awards® History
& Oscars Winners
ACADEMY AWARDS® -
MISTAKES & OMISSIONS
Academy Awards Best
Pictures
Films101 - Sticking to the
Best Movies
Check out IMDb Charts - Users
vote on the Best/Worst films in MANY categories.
Trailers
of Historically Significant Films
The
Classic Hollywood Narrative Style
Chronology
of Film History
Hollywood's
America
Hollywood
as History
Birth
of the Movies
Motion
Picture Sound - Timeline
Of Sound On Film - Recording
Technology History - Sound
- The History of Motion Picture Sound - The
early history of film sound
Hollywood's
Depression Age
Hollywood's
Conservative Age
Hollywood's
Golden Age
Postwar
Hollywood
Hollywood's
Revival
The
Movie Palace - American
Picture Palaces
CinemaTour - Cinemas
Around the World (including pics of all the theaters in the DFW area!)
Old
Movie Houses Find Audience in the Plains - NYTimes.com
Classic Films
War and Anti-War Films
Motion
Pictures and Propaganda
Ebert's
Great Movies
History in
the Movies - Just HOW accurate do specific films portray historical themes.
Paul
Halsall Thinking About Historical Film- Is it worth the trouble?
American WideScreen Museum
Ancient
History in the Movies - Medieval
History in the Movies - Modern
History in the Movies
The History Place
- Hollywood's Best History Films!
MPA | Movie Ratings
| History
TIME
Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Movies
YouTube - AFI!
Many, many links for research, information, & fun stuff about film can be
found on Mrs. Oz's Motion Pictures
website.
JOURNALS,
TRADE PAPERS, FILM MEMORABILIA, & MISC. STUFF RELATING TO FILM
Film References &
Resources
Film
cliches
Welcome! | RiffTrax - Loved MST3K
(Mystery Science Theater 3000)? Now, you can download riffs right on top of your
favorite films!!! Lots of free samples, too!
Guide
to Classic Film Genres and Styles
Film Genres - IMDb:
Genres
Top
Musicals - Top10
Western Films
War and Anti-War Films
Labor
Films - Disaster
Films - Crime and Gangster
Films - Westerns Films
The
Movie Times: Movies of 2010 Box Office Chart (also check out previous years)
All-Time USA
Box Office - All-Time
Worldwide Box Office - All-Time
Non-USA Box Office
American WideScreen
Museum
Museum of the Moving
Image
Senses of Cinema
National Film Registry -
National Film Preservation Board (Library of Congress)
Drive-In Theater
moviemistakes.com - 43,179
bloopers and goofs from 3,906 movies and TV shows
Historical
Movies in Chronological Order
Science Fiction on
Film - Science Fiction
Filmsite
War Movies
Database - World War Two Movie Guide
World Wide Web Virtual
Library - Film History Index
Media Awareness
Network | Home
Media History Project:
University of Minnesota - Timeline:
Media History Project - 20th
Century: Media History Project
In This Year ... &
On This Day ...
IMDB.com Site Index
Roger
Ebert's Glossary of Movie terms
MPTV - The Premier Resource of Hollywood
Celebrity Photographs
Learn About Movie
Posters - Posters
Database
Poster
intro
CLASSIC &
VINTAGE FILM POSTERS
Television
Heaven
TV Tome - guide to the television shows you
love
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