Today´s film: "Faces in the Crowd", with Milla Jovovich
Links to official movie trailers and someone´s medical explanations on prosopagnosia and super- recognisers:
Tuesday 20 November 2012
2nd Bachillerato: Reading and Listening for pleasure
A horror-thriller centered on a woman living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
Links to official movie trailers and someone´s medical explanations on prosopagnosia and super- recognisers:
Links to official movie trailers and someone´s medical explanations on prosopagnosia and super- recognisers:
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Thursday 18 October 2012
2nd Bachillerato - Reading for pleasure
"V" for Vendetta : The Film and The Comic Book
V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s to about the 1990s. A mysterious masked revolutionary who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters. Warner Bros. released a film adaptation of V for Vendetta in 2006.
The series depicts a near-future U.K. after a nuclear war, which has left much of the world destroyed, though most of the damage to the country is indirect, via floods and crop failures. In this future, a fascist party called Norsefire has exterminated its opponents in concentration camps and now rules the country as a police state. V, an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask, begins an elaborate, violent, and intentionally theatrical campaign to murder his former captors, bring down the government, and convince the people to rule themselves.
"V" for Vendetta : The Film and The Comic Book
V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s to about the 1990s. A mysterious masked revolutionary who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters. Warner Bros. released a film adaptation of V for Vendetta in 2006.
The series depicts a near-future U.K. after a nuclear war, which has left much of the world destroyed, though most of the damage to the country is indirect, via floods and crop failures. In this future, a fascist party called Norsefire has exterminated its opponents in concentration camps and now rules the country as a police state. V, an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask, begins an elaborate, violent, and intentionally theatrical campaign to murder his former captors, bring down the government, and convince the people to rule themselves.
Official movie trailer
Tuesday 18 September 2012
2nd Bachillerato - Reading for pleasure
"Salmon Fishing
in the Yemen", the film
Salmon
Fishing in the Yemen is
a 2011 British romantic comedy-drama
film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Ewan
McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas and Amr Waked.
The screenplay is by Simon Beaufoy, based on the novel of the
same name by Paul Torday. Principal photography began on 6 August
2010 and was shot on location for nine weeks in London, Scotland and Morocco. The
film premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film
Festival
Alfred “Fred”
Jones (Ewan McGregor) is a man with Asperger’s
syndrome who is the British government expert in salmon fisheries. When
consultant Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt),
representing a wealthy Yemeni sheikh (Amr Waked),
asks for help to fulfill the sheikh’s vision to introduce salmon fishing to
the desert country of Yemen,
Fred rejects the idea as unfeasible. However, the Prime Minister's press
secretary, Patricia Maxwell (Kristin Scott Thomas) fastens onto it as a
“good will” story of Anglo-Arab cooperation to distract the voters from ongoing
bad news out of Afghanistan, and pressures Fred into working with Harriet and
the sheikh to implement the project. He gradually comes to believe in the
sheikh’s quest. Estranged from his career-minded wife, Fred falls in love with
Harriet, whose boyfriend Robert (Tom Mison)
has just gone missing in action in the war. After Fred declares
his love to Harriet, Robert returns alive, requiring her to choose between the
two men. The fish are released and the project seems to be succeeding, but it
is sabotaged by local militants who destroy the salmon runs. But when Fred sees
some fish have survived, he regains his faith, and Harriet joins him to fulfill
the sheikh’s vision.
Official movie trailer
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