My Fair Lady (1964)
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Showing posts with label FILMS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FILMS. Show all posts
Sunday, 18 November 2018
This month´s film
Colette
Trailer
Monday, 22 October 2018
This month´s film
The Wife
After nearly forty years of marriage, JOAN and JOE CASTLEMAN (Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man’s Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe’s literary star has blazed since he and Joan first met in the late 1950’s. THE WIFE interweaves the story of the couple’s youthful passion and ambition with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later—a lifetime’s shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
Trailer
Sunday, 5 November 2017
MORE ENGLISH FILMS
"BILLY ELLIOT" (2000)
Billy Elliot is a 2000 British dance drama film about a boy becoming a professional ballet dancer, set in north-eastern England during the 1984–85 coal miners' strike. It was directed by Stephen Daldry.
The film stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer dealing with the negative stereotype of the male ballet dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner father, Jamie Draven as Billy's bullying older brother, and Julie Walters as his ballet teacher. The story was adapted for the West End stage as Billy Elliot the Musical in 2005
In 1984, Billy Elliot, an 11-year-old from the fictional Everington in County Durham, England, loves to dance and has hopes of becoming a professional ballet dancer. Billy lives with his widowed father, Jackie, and older brother, Tony, both coal miners out on strike, and also his maternal grandmother, who has Alzheimer's disease and once aspired to be a professional dancer...
Trailer
"I, DANIEL BLAKE" (2016)
Daniel Blake, 59, who has worked as a joiner most of his life in the North East of England needs help from the State for the first time ever following an illness.
He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one roomed homeless hostel in London is to accept a flat some 300 miles away.
Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy now played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.
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More links
"I, Daniel Blake" reviewed by Mark Kermode
Ken Loach: life in austerity
Britain is 'consciously cruel'
Ken Loach´s life and career
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Tuesday, 26 September 2017
This week´s film: "Victoria and Abdul"
Victoria & Abdul is a 2017 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears. A sequel to Mrs Brown (1997), the film is based on the book of same name by Shrabani Basu, and on the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her Indian muslim servant Abdul Karim.
Official trailer
Abdul, the Munshi CLICK HERE
Victoria and Abdul: the story CLICK HERE
Documentary CLICK HERE
Tuesday, 18 October 2016
BACHILLERATO: READING & LISTENING FOR PLEASURE
TODAY´S FILM: "SING STREET" (2016)
This is
the beginning of the eighties and everybody is moving to the beat of Pop music,
as the brand-new concept of the music video appears on television for the first
time. On the other hand, in Dublin, Conor, a teenager with a sensitive heart,
is trying to deal with a tense family relationship, reconnect with his older
brother, while dealing with the hostile environment of his new public school...
But then one day, he saw her. Tall, with long chestnut hair, a buttery
complexion and big, dark eyes, an enigmatically beautiful girl was standing in
front of the gate of his school, indolently observing people passing by. Who is
she and how could a boy ever get noticed by such a distant girl? Easy... he
would form a band! With every lyric Conor writes, the gap narrows and with
every song he plays, her heart fills with affection. In a sea of opportunities
ahead of them, what does the future hold for a love like this?
Watch and listen to one of the songs from the movie soundtrack album. Click HERE or HERE
Go behind the scenes Click HERE
What does the Generation Z (or post-millennials) think about the 80s?
Monday, 23 September 2013
1st / 2nd BACHILLERATO:
READING & LISTENING FOR PLEASURE
Today´s film: "Stuck in Love" (2013)
Meet
the Borgens. William Borgens is an acclaimed author who hasn't written a word
since his ex-wife Erica left him 3 years ago for another man. In between spying
on Erica and casual romps with his married neighbour Tricia, Bill is dealing
with the complexities of raising his teenage children Samantha and Rusty.
Samantha is publishing her first novel and is determined to avoid love at all
costs - after all she's seen what it has done to her parents. In between hook ups,
she meets "nice guy" Lou who will stop at nothing to win her over.
Rusty, is an aspiring fantasy writer and Stephen King aficionado, who is on a
quest to gain 'life experiences'. He falls for the beautiful, but troubled Kate
and gets his first taste of love and a broken heart. A tale of family, love
(lost and found), and how endings can make new beginnings. There are no rewrites in life, only second chances.
Link to official trailer:
Some links to the film soundtrack:
A link to a videoclip by Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
and its lyrics
Another film : " About Time" (2013)
"About Time" is a British romantic comedy film revolving around time travel where a young man tries to change his past to have a better future. Written and directed by Richard Curtis, and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy.
"About Time" is a British romantic comedy film revolving around time travel where a young man tries to change his past to have a better future. Written and directed by Richard Curtis, and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy.
At the age of 21, Tim Lake discovers he can travel in time. Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability
to travel through time. Upon learning this, Tim goes back to the night of a
recent New Year's Eve party where at midnight he was too shy to kiss someone
and goes for the kiss instead.
The following summer, Tim's sister's friend comes to
stay with the family. Tim has an instant attraction and come the end of her
stay, decides to tell her. She tells him that he left it too late to do
anything, and so Tim travels back to the middle of the summer and tells her
earlier. This time, she says that they should wait until the end of the summer
and talk again. Tim realizes she doesn't like him back and that time travel
will not be able to help change her mind. He watches her leave, heartbroken.
Later, Tim decides to move to London to pursue a
career as a lawyer...
Official movie trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7A810duHvw
More "classic" films:
"Notting Hill" (1999)
Notting Hill is a 1999 British romantic comedy
film set in Notting Hill, London, released on 21 May 1999. The screenplay was
by Richard Curtis, who had written Four Weddings and a Funeral. It was
produced by Duncan Kenworthy and directed by Roger Michell. The film stars Hugh
Grant, Julia Roberts and Rhys Ifans.
The film was well received
by critics, and became the highest grossing British film released that year.
The film won a BAFTA, and was nominated in two other categories. Notting
Hill won other awards, including a British Comedy Award and a Brit Award
for the soundtrack, and is perceived to have become a cult classic over the
years.
William Thacker owns an independent travel bookshop in Notting Hill. He is divorced and shares his house with an uninhibited Welsh eccentric named Spike.
Thacker encounters Hollywood
star Anna Scott when she enters his shop to buy a book. Minutes later, the pair
collide in the street and his orange juice spills on her clothes. He offers his
house nearby for Anna to change. Afterwards she surprises Will with a kiss.
He then tries to forget
Anna, but finds it very difficult...
Official movie trailer
"Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994)
Four
Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was
the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant.
The film was an unexpected success, becoming the highest-grossing British film
in cinema history at the time, with worldwide box office in excess of
$245.7 million, and receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.
The film follows the adventures of a group of
friends through the eyes of Charles, a debonair but faux pas-prone
Briton, who is smitten with Carrie, an American whom Charles repeatedly meets
at weddings and at a funeral.
Official movie trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JMuyzm3JRU
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:
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:
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
Sunday, 27 November 2011
2nd Bachillerato - Reading for pleasure
"Anonymous", the film.
Questioning Shakespeare´s authorship. Was Shakespeare a fraud?
Anonymous is a political thriller and historical drama which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011. Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff, the movie is a fictionalized version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet and patron of the arts.
Set within the political atmosphere of the Elizabethan court, the film presents Lord Oxford as the true author of Shakespeare’s plays, and dramatizes events leading to the succession of Queen Elizabeth and the Essex Rebellion against her. De Vere is depicted as a literary prodigy and the Queen's sometime lover, with whom he sires a son, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. De Vere eventually sees his suppressed plays performed through a frontman ( Shakespeare ), using his production of Richard III to support a rebellion led by his son and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.The insurrection fails, and as a condition for sparing the life of their son, the Queen declares that de Vere will never be known as the author of his plays and poems.
Critical comment about the film has been mixed, praising its performances and visual achievements, but criticizing the film's time-jumping format, and the filmmaker's promotion of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship.
"Anonymous" official trailer
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