Try /film/ on 8chan too. It's not focused entirely on classic but also foreign, arthouse, etc.
There's a heavy visual element, as it's an imageboard rather than simply a discussion forum.
https://8ch.net/film/catalog.html

Yep. I haven't posted there in a long time.
http://forums.tcm.com/?ecid=subnavmessageboards
I created a login to complain about their website when they redesigned 5 or 7 years ago? The TCM schedules would not display, it was terrible roll out from their old website.
I think the discussions were pretty TCM-centric but I remember the forum members being polite and knowledgeable.

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http://www.healthypages.com/community/forums/book-music-film-reviews.25/

I have to disagree about the Criterion site. It is one of the most snobbish sites I have seen, and they are VERY unwelcoming to newcomers.

Sorry about that. I kept getting the message that my post wasn't being posted, so I'd try again.

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Plus one RE the BIG pleasure of movies' pages.
I very regularly get curious about a low rated and lesser known yet interesting sounding film and find useful info on whether I ought to invest time and or money to check it out via the film's page's discussion, often guiding me to invest in something I'd otherwise have missed out on.
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A lot of those individual movie boards were quite dead. I'd visit them and I'd see maybe 5 threads on some of them. Maybe that's what made it so tough for the admins to keep the boards going.

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Yes the individual message boards will be a great loss - they were incredibly useful in helping me track down copies of obscure movies. This whole move seems unneccessary - its not like much resources were being used to moderate the boards so I can't fathom the reasning
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I quite agree - the Reddit boards already have a replication of the 'general' boards set-up, with all boards accounted for. But what sets IMDb apart are the boards for EVERY individual, every film and every show. I can, given time, probably get over the loss of CFB, FG, Books (some of the regulars on the Books board are wonderfully knowledgable and informative) and others - but the individuals' boards are an irreplaceable resource. Any time I watch a movie, one of the first things I do is check out its board for comments, questions and answers. Thats one of the BIG pleasures of my movie-loving life which is about to be hacked away.

Thanks. One thing I like about these boards is that there are so many users and so many boards. Some of the other forums just don't have that many people. Too limiting. Once I even came across a forum in which a potential member has to have several posts approved by the mods in order to be accepted. That has too much of a "sorority" flavour to it, and I don't like that.
Hopefully the IMDb admins will change their minds about closing the message boards here.

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