Luxonline is offering monthly vodcast interviews with artists such as Sarah Pucill, Chris Welsby and Harold Offeh. The vodcasts must be downloaded via iTunes.

Produced by the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York, Moving Image Source features original articles by critics, authors, and scholars on topics such as Orson Welles, Guy Debord and Bill Douglas, and an up-to-date and extensive guide to online research resources. 

The site also includes a link to the Pinewood Dialogues, a collection of 76 audio files of conversations with influential figures in film, tv and digital media, including Stan Brakhage, David Lynch, Werner Herzog, Michel Gondry, David Cronenberg, Paul Thomas Anderson and many more.

The Media Resources Center at the University of California, Berkeley, produces comprehensive bibliographies on all aspects of film. The listings of books and journal articles cover genres such as sci-fi, comedy, noir and documentary; movies on the themes of race, ethnicity and gender; and bibliographies on film makers, national cinemas and individual films.

Europa Film Treasures is an EU supported online collection of European film archives. All films are for streaming only and cannot be downloaded. All genres are covered, including comedy, science fiction, westerns and animation. The database currently contains fifty films from national collections such as the Scottish Screen Archive, La Cinémathèque française, Filmoteca Española, Deutsche Kinemathek, the Danske Filminstitut, and the Svenska Filminstitutet.

Great Directors is a free database of profiles of significant film directors, exploring their work “in relation to the production of film: his/her desires, sociopolitical stance, formal innovations, thematic interests and working methods”.

Each director’s entry includes a critical essay, filmography, bibliography, links to articles in Senses of cinema, the online film journal, and links to other web resources for further research.

Produced by Indiana University, the Film Literature Index is a full index to 150 film and television periodicals and 200 other periodicals which have been selectively indexed for articles on film and television. The citation records are quite brief (no abstract) but they can be searched, or browsed by subject, person, production title or corporate name.

The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.

The Open Video Project is an online video bank produced by the University of North Carolina that aims “to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content” for the research community. It contains documentaries, historical and educational films, ephemeral films, lectures, and public broadcasts, all released under open source licensing.

Collections include the Digital Himalaya Project (34 early films from anthropologists in the Himalayas); the Internet Moving Images Archive (containing the Prelinger Archives, ephemeral films mainly on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century); 187 films in the Edison Video collection; and films from the US National Archives, including the Apollo moon landings

The collections are covered by Creative Commons licensing, meaning you are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work as long as it is attributed, unaltered, and for non-commercial purposes.

filmscriptwriting.com is a collection of essays on the technicalities of script writing for all kinds of film project. Topics covered include plot structure, the essential components of storytelling, writing specific genres, and character research and development. The site also has a few sample scripts, including Pulp Fiction and The Graduate.

The library has been building its collection of classic cinema on DVD. Recent purchases include early films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the silent films of D.W. Griffith, and the films of John Ford.

More DVDs will be arriving in the coming weeks.

The Internet Archive is building a library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The resources included in the archive are divided into four categories: Moving Images, Live Music Archive, Audio, and Texts.

The Moving Image Archive contains thousands of digital movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts. Many of these movies are available for download. It also contains The Prelinger Archives, a collection of over 2000 ‘ephemeral’ films.

The audio archive contains over a hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings. Many of these audio files and MP3s are available for free download.

The open access text archive contains a wide range of collections, including Project Gutenberg, a community project established in 1971 to make plain text versions of books available freely to all.