A Selection of Fave Savant web stopovers for the Convenience of the Curious. Here be found good sites. Savant's personal bookmark indexes are always being lost in crashes, so maybe these will last awhile longer. Perhaps with some reader suggestions this can become a one-stop Link Orgy for more than just yours truly.
The winner for 'most readable' is John McElwee's great Greenbriar Picture Shows, is a terrific daily assortment of great old rare photos and savvy text ... every week a new revelation.
Equally fun but more culturally eclectic is Tom Sutpen, Stephen Cooke, Richard Gibson and Kimberly Lindberg's
If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats. Where they dig up these amazing visuals is a wonderment ... Savant spent half a night going through the back catalog.
The TCM Turner Classic Movies page has become a complex site with many interesting corners to snoop through. Besides their daily schedule, the site carries reviews and a gallery of short films, clips, and trailers, some that even play in CinemaScope.
Savant books himself with the TCM schedule Page because it lets me do it a month in advance and keep the %^$# TV off when there
isn't something I NEED to see. Even if you don't get the cable service the site tells you what's letterboxed and what's not, so you can be envious.
Tim Lucas has been grinding out a personal and entertaining Video WatchBlog since the Fall of '05, bridging the gap between his magazine and his once-frequent visits to online Bulletin Boards. Oh, and his regular What's New in VIDEO WATCHDOG has new news as well.
Readers on the lookout for reviews and news pertaining to cult horror and fantasy can't go wrong with Nathaniel Thompson's Mondo Digital Website. Nate knows everything there is to be known about his subject, and his reviews often have preview images from the discs in question.
Gotta plug the
Online Film Critics Society, an organization of film nuts dedicated to the overthro ... oops, wrong organization. The OFCS is a clearing house for film reviews by member reviewers, which ranks Savant joined on April 25th, 2001.
There's always room for Dick Dinman's
DVD Classics Corner, with its poster images and
capsulized reviews. Dinman now specializes in webcast radio shows about vintage movies, built around special guests ... (2/14/04)
The much-missed The DVD Journal 'dimmed the lights' in August 2007, after seven years as Savant's favorite general nooze and gozzip DVD site. The excellent reviews are still up (as of March of 2008), and the site is well worth a visit.
A particularly good read is Steve Eifert's Noir of the Week Page. It's a good resource to many reviews and all things Noir.
Guido Bibra's Film Format Guide has good, concise explanations and data for all the old film formats. The link given takes one to the German original page, but a "English Version" link is near the top.
A new site is Glenn Abel's DVD Spin Doctor Page. Glenn reviews on the web for several serious sites, and the new page is a Blog gathering his thoughts and links to his reviews.
I've been enjoying a literary site called The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies run by Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice Murphy; it has articles on famous authors as well as reviews of stories and movies, too. Recommended.
Nostalghia.com is a thorough resource on the popular
Russian director, Andrei Tarkovsky with many exclusive texts translated into English. Very professional, very
defnitive. Webmasters Jan Bielawski and Trond S. Trondsen.
Savant's favorite web board is The Classic Horror Film Board, a prime Genre site with excellent discussions and a gallery of connected contributors.
Then there's always
Footlite Records. Here's the place to go when
you can't find a hot import cd at Amazon, or anywhere else.
Hey! Who can live without
The Race for
the SuperBomb? It's a site that allows you to superimpose authentic nuclear blast predictions on any
address in the United States! Educational! Morbid! Fun!
The veddy proper British Board of Film Classification
gives you direct access to the censor fates of your fave pix in the United Kingdom. Unless you're rabid
over Video Nasties, the British censors are not all that bad . . . at least they aren't hypocritical
and inconsistent.
The Letterbox Widescreen Advocacy page also
has some nice features, including a very clear explanation of DVD for Newbies.
There are a lot of OZ fans who might not know about The Wonderful World of Oz List of Frequently Asked Questions, several of which Savant receives
every week.
The Evolution of Broadcast TV is pretty
dry, but concisely and accurately tells the tale about NTSC and its cousins. Better than a textbook and
required reading for anyone who wants a clear idea of where those little lines come from on the TV.
Brad Lang's Classic Movies Home Page is
an excellent way to find new movie sites. There's always new stuff to check out and Monsieur Lang is a
pleasant host.
The Diabolik Official Home Page is now in both
Italian and English too. Read up on a
cool comic character of which Americans are completely unaware.
One of the older Movie fan sites,
Joe Versus the Volcano has some hilarious and
insightful essays about the film, which Savant is proud to say is one of the best of the decade, no
matter what it's general rep may be. It's the Duck! The key is the Duck! Priceless.
There are several METROPOLIS sites with new info on variant and longer cuts. The
Metropolis Walkthrough by Jim
McCann has some unique visual goodies.
Archie Harris' superior
Until the End of the World website
(Welcome to...)
counterpoints the
Savant articles on that film.
The Tokusatsu Movie Poster Gallery
has the best collection of posters for Japanese Kaiju Eiga and Toho science fiction Savant's seen yet.
Very colorful and cool. There's even a poster for Atragon under the variant spelling Ataragon.
For a long time, Savant thought Ataragon was a typo.
Kind of a grab bag, Dr. Daniel's Movie
Emergency is simply a horde of links, for when you get really desperate for something new to surf. I
always find something there.
Tony McKay, Adrian Petford, and Greg Quinn's
Quatermass Home Page is THE reference to
the
famous cult TV shows and movies, with added biographical info on author Nigel Kneale.
For self-aggrandizement, Savant includes two articles written for Gary Johnson's
IMAGES webzine,
The Kiss Me Mangled Mystery:
Refurbishing a Film Noir, and
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock:
Women on the Verge of a Gothic Breakdown One's about Savant's restoration find, the other
a high falutin' take on an Italo horror classic (Babs! Babs!).
