By Travis Johnson
Andrew L. Urban and Louise Keller, the minds behind the ever-present Australian film blog, Urban Cinefile, have decided to hang up their guns, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the site.
Going forward, their site will remain up as a free online archive of over 22,000 articles.
“We are immensely proud of our track record as the voice of Australian film on the internet,” the pair say in a prepared statement. “Over the years we have attracted readers from every corner of the globe and have served our Australian readers with a weekly menu of reviews, interviews, news and box office reports.”
Founded in February 1997, Urban Cinefile was part of the first wave of film news and review sites, including Ain’t it Cool News and Dark Horizons. In 1998 it was named Best Arts & Entertainment Site in the inaugural Australian Internet Awards. Since 1999, the National Library of Australia has archived Urban Cinefile in its PANDORA ongoing web archive, citing Urban Cinefile as ‘an online publication of cultural value’.
If Urban Cinefile is still online, I can’t find it.
Here is the latest archived version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201006154624/http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/
This is the latest archived version.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200929084559/http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/