Audiovisual Links

Movies | Music | Audiobooks

Movies

Reviews

• Roger Ebert Reviews, "Movie Answer Man", and essays.
• Rotten Tomatoes Summarizes reviews from a range of critics, and rates movies as "fresh" (over 60% positive reviews) or "rotten".
• Salon.com

Movie Festivals

• Cannes
• Sundance

Other links of interest to movie lovers

• Planet Indie
• National Film Preservation Board Includes links to the National Film Registry
• Short films online
• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Music Links

• Downbeat Magazine Features include Jazz 101.
• Country Music Hall of Fame
• Baroque Music Homepage

Audiobooks

• Assistive media Offers "free-of-charge, copyright-approved, high caliber audio literary works to the world-wide disability community". Requires RealAudio.
• Audio Book Club Sign up to receive an excerpt of an audio book each day via email.  Requires RealAudio
• Newsline for the blind Call in to hear newspapers read over the phone.  Anyone who cannot read conventional newsprint could qualify for this free service.  Provided by the National Federation of the Blind.
• National Library Services for the Blind

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