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brief note
books about classic movies
classic films pages
cinema masters pages
topical film festivals

“I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come.
The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.” — D.W. Griffith [1875-1948]

“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.” — André Bazin

“Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the movies. Let’s go and experience the art of the cinema. Let’s begin with 'Scream of Fear', and [it is] going to haunt us for the rest of our lives. And then let’s go see 'The Great Escape', and spend our summer jumping our bikes, just like Steve McQueen over barb wire. And then let’s catch 'The Seven Samurai' for some reason on P.B.S., and we’ll feel like we speak Japanese because we can read the subtitles and hear the language at the same time. And then let’s lose sleep the night before we see '2001: A Space Odyssey' because we have this idea that it’s going to change forever the way we look at films. And then let’s go see it four times in one year. And let’s see 'Woodstock' three times in one year and let’s see 'Taxi Driver' twice in one week. And let’s see 'Close Encounters of The Third Kind' just so we can freeze there in mid-popcorn. And when the kids are old enough, let’s sit them together on the sofa and screen 'City Lights' and 'Stagecoach' and 'The Best Years of Our Lives' and 'On The Waterfront' and 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Five Easy Pieces' and 'The Last Picture Show' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Schindler’s List' . . . so that they can understand how the human condition can be captured by this amalgam of light and sound and literature [that] we call the cinema.” — actor-producer Tom Hanks

By mid-2015, the count of coded pages about classic films and classic film series on the Magic Lantern Video & Book Store website grew to over forty,
and yet there was no one page here that linked directly to all of them; so here is that page, with a section of links to Magic Lantern's
cinema masters & auteurs pages, and a section of links to all the Magic Lantern topical film festival pages.

	"The Complete Idiot's Guide To Classic Movies" [2006] by Lee Pfeiffer Alpha Books 9x7¼ pb [11/2006] out of print/used thumbnail critiques of over 350 movies from the Silent Era thru 1969, with indexes, appendices, quotes & other lists; movies covered range across "The Birth of A Nation" [1915], "Intolerance" [1916], "Greed" [1924], "The Maltese Falcon" [1941], "The African Queen" [1951], "The Seven Samurai" [1954], "The 400 Blows" [1959], "The Magnificent Seven" [1960], "2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968], "Easy Rider" [1969], and "The Wild Bunch" [1969]
	"1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: 5th Anniversary Edition" [orig 2004, rev 2013] Edited by Stephen Jay Schneider Kindle Edition 5th edition etextbook from Barron's [12/2014] for $23.82 Barron's Educational Series 8¼x6½ hardcover [10/2013] for $25.07 Barron's Educational Series 5th Anniv Edition 8¼x6¾ hardcover [10/2008] out of print/80+ used Cassell Illustrated 8½x6¼ pb [9/2004] out of print/many used
	"America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide To The Landmark Movies In The National Film Registry" [2009] by Daniel Eagan Continuum Publng Group 9¾x7 pb [10/2009] for $17.96 Continuum Publng Group 10x7¼ hardcover [9/2009] for $97.06

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Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
Classic Movies and Cinema Masters
Film Festival