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About Filmsite.org
Filmsite.org 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.
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About Film Historian Tim Dirks
Tim
Dirks created the popular filmsite.org website, aka Greatest
Films, in
mid-1996, and it celebrated its landmark 20th anniversary in 2016. He
has been writing about and reviewing films ever since. As of September
2008, the site was acquired by American Movie Classics (AMC) LLC, and
then as of July 2011, it became part of a new company called AMC Networks,
Inc. Tim continues to be the sole contributor, manager, and editor of
Filmsite - he adds significant content to the site spanning all the years
of cinematic history, and often writes blogs and other film-related articles,
including Sundance TV's completed series 1001 Movies You Must See
Before You Die. The site averages between 30-50 million page views per year
(see visitor and traffic statistics).
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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) has 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."
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