Media Resources

Movie, TV and Video

• Movie Reviews This site covers everything from the Florida Film Festival to "AmericanPie" ("a guilty pleasure at its best, and an outrage at its worst"). With ahuge archive of reviews, some good links, and articles about peripheralstuff, this has everything for the avid fan or casual moviegoer.
• AbsoluteMovies One of the most comprehensive movie sites on the Internet with reviews of current movies and old classics as well.
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies In case you haven't got the American Film Institute's list of what it considers the best 100 flicks of the century memorized, here's a place to find it.
• Ain't-It-Cool News Media news and gossip
• Alfred Hitchcock - The Master of Suspense Hitchcock's films are so deceptive, such seemingly light suspense fare, buteven his frothiest confections - "To Catch a Thief" for instance, or "Northby Northwest" - turned on serious themes that ran throughout his mostthoughtful works. Identify a good man caught in someone else's deceit,place him opposite a knowing woman, use the absence of sex to underline theerotic - and watch the fireworks. From this distance, it's hard to rememberwhat a pioneer Hitch was: the lighted milk in "Suspicion"; thehomo-eroticism of "Rope"; the 12-minute lapse in dialogue in the climacticscene of "The Man Who Knew Too Much"; the frankly unstated prostitution of"Notorious" and "North by Northwest"; the fact of a bathroom scene at allin "Psycho", let alone what happens in the shower. Then, of course, therewas Hitch's penchant for sly appearances in his own films. If his dry witin the colorized intros of his resurrected television series has lulled youinto a false sense of security, take a second look at just how disturbinghis films really are. This site will get you started.
• AllCam, The Place to See and Be Seen on the Web 
• American Memory Collection Finder 
• American Movie Classics 24-hour cable network with a comprehensive library of classic Americanfilms from the 1930s through the 1970s, shown through a diverse blend oforiginal programming uncut, uninterrupted and without colorization.
• Bright Lights Film Journal 
• Camcities  Searchable directory of web cams all over the world.
• Camcity Webcam search engine.
• Cinemachine - movie review search engine 
• Clamen's Movie Information Collection 
• Drew's Script-O-Rama 
• DVD Talk DVD movie news, reviews, bargains, chat, forum and more.
• E! Online 
• E! Online Plus Movies 
• EarthCam 
• Ebert Reviews 
• Entertainment Asylum 
• FasTV.com: Searchable Video on the Web A website with a searchable library of video clips delivered in RealVideo format.
• Film and Television Studies 
• Film.com: movie reviews, news, trailers, interviews, showtimes and more 
• Greatest Films 
• Hitchcock Page 
• Hollywood.com 
• Internet Movie Database 
• Media Awareness Network 
• Money Madness The Movie Madness Web site features news, gossip, trailers, trivia, andpics about flicks.
• Movie Cliches Movie-related web site devoted to the most annoying and common logic flaws and stereotypes found in movies.
• Movie Review Query Engine 
• MovieQuest You can type in your zip code, and it will find all the theatres within10-100 miles (you choose) of your house, show you what is playing,complete with the times the movies are showing and movie reviews.
• MovieWeb 
• Mr. Showbiz 
• MSN Entertainment Channel 
• New Live Cameras 
• Nitpickers Site, The  If you shriek every time you spot a microphone boom in a movie or know forcertain that "Exit" signs should not have appeared in "The Phantom Menace",you'll love the gang at Nitpickers. Nitpickers, by definition, take joy inspotting the continuity or factual errors so often visible in ourfreeze-frame video world. The site highlights hundreds such mistakes, allcontributed by regular folks blessed with good video playback and a keeneye for big-screen foibles. You can even sign up to be a Nitpickeryourself. We just recommend you keep it to yourself, or your friends willnever invite you to a movie again.
• Oops! Movie Secrets and Mistakes The Oops! Movie Secrets and Mistakes site gives us all a chanceto feel superior to a selection of overpaid producers in Tinseltown.From "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" to "The Wizard of Oz"(did you know Judy Garland's hair changes length throughout the film?),there's a wealth of guffaws. If you're good at spotting bloopers, youcan submit your own choice bloopers, too.
• Palace - classic films 
• Pittsburgh Cinema Project 
• QuickChecker - movie reviews 
• RaveReviews Rave Reviews compiles soundtracks and books of recent and forthcomingmovies on one page.
• Silver Screen Sirens 
• Slapstick: the silent comedy QuickTime cavalcade 
• Steve Martin's Home Page 
• The Web: Do U Like 3 Watch? This page is one of the best directories of webcams we've seen. The camsrange from a view of the Alps to a frequently updated newsroom shot of theEgyptian Daily News - there's even a cam on the site proprietor. Eachlisting has a description, refresh time, and rating.
• TV Guide Online 
• Warner Brothers 
• World Map of Live Webcams  Just for fun, surf over to the World Map of Live Webcams to get an idea ofall the places you can see through the magic of computers. These areoutside cameras only so you won't have to sift through endless shots ofoffices and bedrooms.
• Yahoo! Broadcast 
• Yahoo! Entertainment The three big sections here - Movies, Television, and Music - cover news,reviews, and related Web sites in the typical portal style. You'll find theusual array of Yahoo community sections with discussion boards and chatrooms devoted to all things entertainment.
• Yahoo! Movies 

Museums, Galleries and Art Institutes

• 24 Hour Museum 
• allwall: Poster Store 
• Amazing Picture Machine This searchable index of Internet graphics will help you find images foryour lessons.
• American Museum of Natural History 
• Archives & Museum Informatics 
• Art Institute of Chicago , The 
• Art Museum Network  
• Art Resource The world's largest and most comprehensive archive singularly devoted toimages of painting, sculpture, architecture, and the minor arts, ranging intime periods from the prehistoric to the present. Access to over 3 millionimages!!
• Artcyclopedia Guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet,with directory of both artist and museums.
• Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet Focusing on fine art painting and sculpture, the Artcyclopedia aims tobecome the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine arton the Internet. They don't define "fine art", deferring instead to museumcurators for that tricky task - any artist in a museum has passed the test.The Artcyclopedia also limits itself to Web sites on which artists' workscan be viewed. We spent a pleasant afternoon tracking down works in theTate Gallery in London, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas and theStedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, to name but a few.
• Artprint Collection 
• Arts & Letters Daily 
• Asian Arts 
• Australian National University ArtServe 
• Chicago Academy of Sciences  
• Children's Museum of Indianapolis, The  
• Corbis Picture Experience, The Photo archive.
• Dictionary of Art, The The Dictionary of Art is the world's first comprehensive artreference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting,sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, andphotography, from prehistory to the 1990s.
• Electric Gallery, The 
• Exploratorium, The 
• Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception 
• Field Museum, The  
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 
• Florentine Art 
• Franklin Institute Science Museum, The  
• FreeFoto.Com The FreeFoto Picture Library has over 4,000 pictures divided into19 main sections with 250 sub headings. The site is verypopular with over 2000 visitors a day viewing over 20,000pictures.
• Getty Art Center The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts and the humanities that includes an art museum as well as programs for education, scholarship, and conservation.
• Great Buildings Collection, The 
• Guide to Museum and Cultural Resources 
• Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources, The  The Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources provides an index for information about museums, aquaria, historicalparks and other cultural institutions. It is also designed to accommodate information about a variety of resources of interest to thearts/cultural/scientific/educational community.
• http://www.clubinternet.com/picasso/ 
• Library of Congress Exhibitions 
• Library of Congress Exhibitions, The  
• Louvre Museum 
• Lowe Art Museum South Florida's permier collecting museum, offering world class temporaryexhibitions.
• Mark Harden's Artchive 
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, The 
• Musee d'Orsay 
• Musee du Louvre 
• Musee National Picasso, Paris 
• Museum of Antiquities 
• Museum of Bad Arts, The  
• Museum of Modern Art, The  
• Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago  
• Museums around the World  
• Museums in Paris 
• National Gallery of Art 
• National Gallery of Canada 
• Norton Simom Museum 
• Online Exhibits Hotlist 
• place, the  The place is an evolving repository of artwork created specifically for distribution on the Web.
• Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, The  
• Russian Museums 
• Science Learning Network  
• Sistine Chapel 
• Smithsonian American Art Museum 
• Smithsonian Institution  
• State Hermitage Museum', St. Petersburg, Russia, The  The State Hermitage Museum's Web site is quietly elegant, its understatedsimplicity beautifully framing the opulence of St. Petersburg's Hermitageitself. The site includes not only the history of the buildings andextensive collections, but also visitor information, a schedule of currentand past exhibits, and a rundown of the educational outreach programs thatthe museum provides. Browse the collection via the highlights, which comewith text to put the items in context, or via the Digital Collectionbutton, which displays each item available in a high-res format for thoseinto details. The second option is best for those on high-speedconnections, but both provide a wonderful experience.
• The Tech: museum of innovation 
• Time Inc. Picture Collection The Picture Collection contains hundreds of thousands of photographsfrom Time, Inc.'s collection of photos from its publications (Time,Life, People, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Time-Life Books), alongwith more than a million historical images from the London MansellCollection. Membership registration is required to search and view thecollection; however, the membership is free. As a member, users canlicense the use of the images in their projects. Even if you do notplan to license and use the images, you can still browse the collectionat no charge.
• UCR California Museum of Photography UC Riverside's California Museum of Photography has struck at its Web sitea well-choreographed balance between its real and virtual presences: theonline exhibits make you want to visit the museum. Even at 72 dpi, thestuff here will knock you out. Online teasers illustrate each exhibit withhandfuls of photographs, and guide you through much as would a brochure at a local gallery. The site also archives past exhibits - something atangible museum usually cannot do. Be sure to glance through thehand-scrawled notes reshaping "ideal" beauty seen through the lens of Raoul Gradvohl in his burlesque portraits (not for the kids). We also liked First Sundays, which documents an educational enrichment program for Riverside's kids. Will the kid who threw the plastic fork on the glass be the next Jackson Pollock?
• University of Chicago Oriental Institute 
• Vatican Exhibit 
• Vatican Museum 
• Walker Art Gallery 
• WebMuseum Network, The  
• Whitney Museum of American Art 
• World Wide Arts Resources "World Wide Arts Resources offers the definitive, interactive gateway to all exemplars of qualitative arts information and culture on the Internet. Artists,museums, galleries, art history, arts education, antiques, performing arts ranging from dance to opera, classified ads, resume postings and more can be can be accessed from the left column."
• WWW Virtual Library Museums Page 

Music, Internet Radio

• Addicted to Noise 
• All About Jazz A magazine for jazz fans by jazz fans, is considered thebest all-purpose jazz resource on the Web. Informative and timely yetentertaining and fun, it offers all fans the opportunity to express theiropinion on a variety of jazz and jazz-related subjects.
• Beatles, Beatles, Beatles! 
• BMG Classical Music Online Service 
• BMG Music Services Online 
• BMGCLASSICS: Classics World 
• CD Now 
• Classical Music Cube 
• ClassicalNet Composers' Index The busy (and big) ClassicalNet site from the U.K. is yet another example with a 'Composers' Index' providing information on over one hundred composers with links to sound clips and CD reviews.
• Contemporary List of Jazz Links 
• DiscJockey.Com Internet Music Network 
• Electric Art Gallery: Jazz and Blues Wing, The 
• EveryCD 
• HCP Concerts Canada Canadian Music Web Site
• Hype! Current Classical CD Reviews 
• Independent and Unsigned Artists 
• Internet Beatles Album, The 
• Internet Beatles Album, The Go back in time! What is the truth behind some of the myths!Did John Lennon really say "I buried Paul" at the end of thesong Strawberry Fields Forever? Also included on the site isthe Beatles Reference Library, links to Sgt. Peppers LonelyHearts Club Band and White Album websites, and what happenedon this day in Beatle History.
• Internet Radio List: The Online Radio Station and Web Broadcast Resource 
• J. S. Bach Home Page 
• Jazz Institute of Chicago The 24 Hour Museum highlights some 2,000 museums and galleries in the UK. The News Around the Clock section inside the Magazine runs down current and forthcoming exhibitions, including addresses and phone numbers so you can call any museum for more information about an exhibit. One of the best sections of the site is Trails, each of which is arranged either around a geographical area or a particular theme, designed to get kids excited about learning. For best results, visit on a Java-enabled browser with Flash installed.
• Jazz Online 
• Jazz Ovation Inn, The  
• JazzGarage 
• Jazzhouse.org - The Jazz Journalists Association 
• Live Wire Media 
• LiveConcerts.com 
• MP3 Meta Search Engine MP3Meta is the first MP3 meta search engine we've seen. It sends your query to several other search engines and integrates the results into astandardized format, removing duplicates and adjusting the ranking foroptimal relevance. It's a bit slow, but a good alternative bookmark.
• Music Radio  Music Radio has hundreds of links to radio stations broadcasting music onthe Net, just because they can. Never mind the bandwidth. You can choosemusic and listen to it in the background while you continue netsurfing.
• MusicLink: Music on the Internet 
• MusicNewswire 
• Netizens Cyberstop Music Page, The  
• NetRadio.com 
• PC-radio.com Updated each business day at noon Eastern (GMT -5:00) and availableon-demand around the clock, InternetNews Radio is a fast-paced RealAudioreport on the top stories in Internet business, Web development, ISP news,and 'net products and stocks.
• Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz The superb Library of Congress American Memory series has collaborated with great jazz journalist William Gottlieb to present Photographs from theGolden Age of Jazz. Sixteen hundred photographs document the jazz scenefrom 1938 to 1948, mostly in New York and Washington, D.C. There's audiotoo, in RealPlayer and .wav formats.
• Radio.SonicNet We can't say enough about Imagine Radio, one of the coolest Web siteconcepts we've seen in a while, and it actually works. Provide a name andpassword, and fill out a simple form to make known your musicalpreferences. Programming is that easy. Choices range from Drum 'n Bass toNew Country to Smooth Jazz to talk radio. The site provides a list of theartists who play on your station and information on each playing artist.Yes, there is a Buy Now button that links directly to CDnow. Thecommercialism, however, is unobtrusive and remains that way until you want to buy something. This site serves as a refreshing example of how different media can mix comfortably and complement each other. Then again, video never did kill the radio star, did it?
• RealAudio 
• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum 
• Spinner.com 
• Tunes.com - The Internet's Music Hub With MP3 making waves among users, the major media outlets are piling on tothe online music bandwagon. Rolling Stone, the granddaddy of music press,backs Tunes.com, the newest effort. According to their blurb, Tunes has "amillion song clips from 350,000 albums, over 1000 music videos, profiles on85,000 artists and bands, exclusive concert photos, daily music news,reviews and nightly live and archived performance webcasts." Prettyimpressive. As a "big name" site, it offers the usual professional effortthat blends content with related news. Naturally, Tunes wants you to signon and join their online community so they can collect your demographics,although this is not required for most content. It's a good site, worthwatching for its proprietary broadcast content.
• Ultimate Band List 
• Ultimate Band List, The 
• VirtualTuner.com Directory of Live and On Demand Radio Links.
• WebRadio.com - Streaming Media on the Internet 
• WNUR-FM Jazz Web 
• World Wide Music 
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources 
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources  
• WWW Music Resources 
• Yahoo! Broadcast