FeaturedFilmsite's Compilations of the Best and Greatest Scenes, Films, Images, Sequences, Stars and Much More: For over 28 years, Filmsite's owner/film historian Timothy Dirks has viewed thousands and thousands of hours of film footage - to put together very extensive, comprehensive and detailed collections of film reference materials for the website. The site location where you are being directed is to a very substantial page with dozens of choices for you to peruse and enjoy. They include the following categories: 100 Most Iconic Movie Images, Bond Films, the Top Box-Office Films of All-Time, Greatest Film Franchises, Greatest Film Stars, Greatest Film Legends, Top Film Quotes, Greatest Zombie Films, Best Speeches/Monologues, Robots in Film, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing Sequences, Best Film Kisses, Best Film Noir Femmes Fatales, and many many more too numerous to list. The latest four sections that are available include: Greatest Sci-Fi Films of All-Time, 100 Greatest Film Noirs of All-Time, Alfred Hitchcock's Greatest Films, and Stanley Kubrick's Greatest Films. |
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About Filmsite.org Filmsite.org (aka Filmsite) is an award-winning website for classic film buffs, students, moviegoers and anyone else interested in the great movies of the last century. Detailed plot synopses, review commentary and film reference material are just some of the features available on the site. The site also contains film analysis, original content, information on the top films and most memorable movie scenes, "Best of..." articles, and the most popular film quotes in all genres of film. Its many resources include a comprehensive overview of film history, a complete survey of the Academy Awards (Oscars), milestones and turning points in the industry, and background and descriptions for hundreds of classic Hollywood/American and other English-language movies from the last one hundred years. In the mid-1990s when it was first launched, filmsite.org was one of the first websites to initiate the trend to select 100 Greatest Films in the history of cinema. |
About Film Historian Tim Dirks Tim Dirks created the popular filmsite.org website, aka Filmsite or Greatest Films, in mid-1996, and the site celebrates its landmark 28th anniversary in 2024. He has been writing about and reviewing films on the site ever since its start. Tim originated Filmsite and has remained its sole contributor, manager, and editor - he adds significant content to the site spanning all the years of cinematic history, often writes blogs and other film-related articles, and has engaged in a number of on-camera interviews about film. Wikipedia has called the site "an introduction to cinematic literacy," and CultureSonar referred to the site as "A One-Man IMDb." The site has averaged over time about 10 million page views per year (see visitor and traffic statistics). |
Roger Ebert Endorsement Film critic and columnist Roger Ebert, author of The Great Movies (2002), The Great Movies II (2005), and The Great Movies III (2010) made many detailed references to filmsite.org in his Chicago Sun-Times "Answer Man" column and in his many writings about the Great Movies over the years. He has written that the site is "an invaluable repository of movie descriptions and dialogue" and that it is an "awesome website [that] contains detailed descriptions of 300 great American films, along with many other riches." |