Based in Copenhagen since the early 90’s Jack Stevenson among other subjects from the weird and wonderful world of people abusing celluloid to it’s finest has written an unusual book about Danish Lars von Trier. But before Jack Stevenson came to notoriety, he wrote a lot of very personal and intense essays on film, which are dead links today. Due to the verisimilitude of the wayback machine most of these essays are preserved for posterity.
For example
THE SECRET HISTORY OF CULT MOVIES
– a Biblical tale of the Holy Unlikely
can be located at http://web.archive.org/web/20000823071310/http://hjem.get2net.dk/jack_stevenson/cult.htm
– where you can also locate all of his other brilliant essays on seldom seen aspects of films and film genres in his then LIVING COLOR MOVIE MAGAZINE
wayback.archive.org/web is still in Beta, but what a wonderful idea!
If an URL comes up empty, try searching for that specific URL directly at the archive homepage. It’s possible you have arrived at a link page, after the site has been shut down, but before wayback machine has stopped coming by.