The Greatest Films in Cinematic History: Filmsite.org |
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Featured On May 30, 1996, filmsite.org was registered as a domain, and created as a small non-profit website by one film enthusiast, Tim Dirks. Dedication and hard work, long hours at the computer and movie screen, and attention to detail has made the site one of the top-level web destinations for film. I am exceedingly grateful for many helpful and productive comments of web visitors. It was a great thrill when TV film critic Roger Ebert selected Filmsite as one of the Top 20 Movie Sites for 1997. (See All Ebert References). To put the era in its proper context, Netflix, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Firefox and even Google didn't exist, and 'blogs' hadn't appeared. Amazon, E-Bay, and the IMDb were still in their early development stages, and only 34 million households owned a computer in the US in 1996. Some of the views of Filmsite's earliest 'home-page' were first captured by the Internet Archive in December of 1996, showing a very Simple Design. The site started out as a compendium of descriptions of some of the "Greatest Moments and Scenes" from classic films. As that evolved, it soon became clear that each of the scenes needed to be placed in context, so that's when the idea to select 100 Greatest Films and review them in more depth occurred. See also: > > Retrospective
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About Filmsite Filmsite.org is an award-winning, in-depth resource for film analysis, offering detailed, illustrated reviews, plot summaries, and historical context for hundreds and hundreds of the greatest films. Written by Film Historian Tim Dirks, and celebrating its 30th Year Anniversary, it provides comprehensive, scholarly commentary rather than quick, modern reviews, making it ideal for academic study. Key features of Filmsite's film reviews include: Comprehensive
Coverage: Detailed reviews for classics such as Casablanca,
Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz, and 12 Angry Men. |
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Roger Ebert: Endorsement
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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 and beyond.
Detailed plot synopses, review commentary and 
Tim Dirks created the popular
filmsite.org website, aka Filmsite or Greatest
Films, in mid-1996, and the site celebrates its landmark
30th anniversary in 2026. 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. According to the Encyclopedia
Britannica, this site has a "rich collection of commentary and
information about masterpieces of American cinema." In mid-2003,
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