I hope all of you enjoy this blog with two categories (Cinema and documentaries information and a second one with different tasks for English classes). You will be able to see interesting cinema reviews about films related to different topics, videos, documentaries,songs, texts…
About the choreographer:
Director – Miles Langley
“I knew Jaime Flor (Dancer/Choreographer) while growing up (he was my parent’s lodger in Paris). He was selected by a French dance school to come and train in contemporary dance and has since had a career as a dancer in Paris. I saw him dance a few times back then, and you could tell he had something unique. Much later, I had the crazy idea of having him dance to one of our songs, and I’m a bit overwhelmed that we actually managed to make it all happen, and by the end result. We talked through the lyrics and had long conversations about what they might mean, and Jaime built up the choreography closely inspired by the song. Having left Paris a while ago, it felt like a reconnection with a former part of myself, shouting through the lyrics in French around East London with my old friend.” – Jack Cleverly (CYMBALS singer/guitarist)
Lyrics:
I want to know how you learn
Read the papers, read the charts
I stand the can it’s in your arms
While you whispering, I know your sounds
[Chorus]
I don’t know enough about you
To be kind, to be kind to you
Don’t you even think about me
Just forget, what you think you’ve seen
We can feel a powerful thing
You decide what you want from me
We can hear the passing of time
Every sound, every single mind
I want to hear, how you talk
So I’m taking you apart
This kind of knowing it’s a start
And I mean to make it last
[Chorus]
I don’t know enough about you
To be kind, to be kind to you
Don’t you even think about me
Just forget what you think you’ve seen
Find More lyrics at www.sweetslyrics.com
We can feel a powerful thing
You decide what you want from me
We can hear the passing of time
And the sound that’s in your mind
Well I don’t, we don’t know,
Well I can’t make sense
We’re thinking, always speaking
Just don’t argue, just keep talking
Well I don’t, we don’t know
Well I can’t make sense
We’re thinking, always speaking
Just don’t argue, just keep talking
We can hear the passing of time
We can hear the passing of time
We can hear the passing of time
We can hear the passing of time
We can hear the passing of time
Well I don’t, don’t know,
Well I don’t make sense
We’re thinking, all this speaking
Just don’t argue, just keep talking
Watch these videoclips where art is used:
Candy Bar (by CYMBALS)
Like an Animal (by the group CYMBALS)
Not Bad Decisions
All is Full of Love (Bjork)
What do you think about the idea of using art, a dancer or choreographer…in videoclips instead of using the more common used images of the singer or group? Can you think of other good examples? Please, send them to me.
Lyrics
Fly me to the moon
And let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby , kiss me
Read more: Frank Sinatra – Fly Me To The Moon Lyrics | MetroLyrics
TALENT SHOWS (information taken from Steven McGuire McMillan teacher´s day)
The X factor
Carly Rose Sonenclair: Feeling Good
lyrics from the song Nina Simone
Liam Payne’s X Factor Audition (Full Version)
While you are watching, look carefully Simon´s body language and decide if you think this time he has a better chance at winning the competition.
Sentence Stems:
Discuss each of the films below. Which you would like to see…why? Then agree on which one of these 4 films you will both go to see this weekend.
1The Croods
coursera programation
Learn the ideas and vocabulary for listening to world music, and examine the music of several world music cultures and how they have entered into mainstream popular culture.
<a href="http://FOLIFOLI (there is no movement without rhythm) original version by Thomas Roebers and Floris Leeuwenberg” title=”FOLI (there is no music without rythm)”>FOLI (there is no music without rythm)
Paul Simon – Graceland DVD / Homeless with Paul Simon interview (6.33)
Graceland, Paul Simon’s “collaborative” album (with lyrics)
Directed by Paletinian Emad Burnat and the Israeli Guy Davidi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu58ZHxHjtU[/youtub<br />
5 Broken Camaras (Palestinian Documentary)<br />
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-mGWy9iUg
When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born, Emad, a Palestinian villager, gets his first camera. In his village, Bil’in, a separation barrier is being built and the villagers start to resist this decision. For more than five years, Emad films the struggle, which is lead by two of his best friends, alongside filming how Gibreel grows. Very soon it affects his family and his own life. Daily arrests and night raids scare his family; his friends, brothers and him as well are either shot or arrested. One Camera after another is shot at or smashed, each camera tells a part of his story.
Review:
An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later given to Israeli co-director Guy Davidi to edit. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over five years of village turmoil. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify, and lives are lost. “I feel like the camera protects me,” he says, “but it’s an illusion.” — (C) Kino Lorber
The Gatekeepers
Sugar Man
Two South African music lovers embark on a mission to uncover the fate of an obscure, 1970s-era U.S. rocker whose debut album became a surprise hit in their home country, and uncover a shocking secret along the way. Sixto Diaz Rodriguez had the kind of musical career that every aspiring rock star fears — lauded by critics but ignored by the public, he released two albums before unceremoniously disappearing from the spotlight. But while sales of Rodriguez’s debut CD Cold Fact fell flat in the U.S., overseas in Australia and South Africa, the fans couldn’t get enough. In apartheid-torn South Africa in particular, Cold Fact became something of an anti-establishment classic, eventually going platinum. Later, rumors began to swirl that Rodriguez had suffered a horrible death. When Rodriguez’s second album Coming From Reality makes it’s belated debut in South Africa, a pair of devoted fans take it upon themselves to uncover the facts surrounding the mysterious musician, and get the surprise of a lifetime while attempting to track the profits from his record sales.
The Invisible War
“Serves as a call to action against abuse of students by their peers.” – Variety
With millions of kids every year suffering schoolyard persecution at the hands of their peers, bullying is the most prevalent form of violence young people experience. From teasing to cyberbullying to the persecution of GLBTI teens, bullying transcends geographic, racial, ethnic and economic boundaries.
Sundance award-winning director Lee Hirsch’s powerful, controversial documentary Bully captures the human face of this torment. Profiling five victims, the film is a confronting – and for many, all-too familiar – picture of a bullied child’s life. Hirsch, himself a former victim, aims to show this behaviour is not just ‘kids being kids’ but real abuse with real consequences.
Visually impressive and deeply compelling, Bully captures the silent terror of victims’ daily lives and demands that the issue is no longer dismissed as simply a part of growing up. Awarded a Special Jury Mention at Silverdocs Film Festival 2011, Bully deserves to be seen as widely as possible.
From Film Melbourne
GOYA AWARDS 2013 A Story for the Modlins (Sergio Oksman) Best non-fiction documentary
After appearing in the film Rosemary’s Baby, by Roman Polanski,
Elmer Modlin ran away with his wife Margaret and his son Nelson to a distant land.
They shut themselves inside a dark apartment, where Margaret devoted herself to painting the coming Apocalypse, using Nelson and Elmer as models.
Thirty years later, hundreds of the family’s intimate photographs and documents appeared on the sidewalk like a jigsaw puzzle, waiting for someone to come along and piece together “a story for the Modlins”.
After appearing in the film Rosemary’s Baby, by Roman Polanski, Elmer Modlin ran away with his family to a distant land, where they shut themselves inside a dark apartment for thirty years.
Director:Sergio Oksman (Brasil, 1970) studied Journalism in Sao Paulo and Film in New York. He is a film teacher in Madrid, and runs the production company Dok Films since 2000.
4- Rebeca (1940) ……. A Hichcock(English subt 10′) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozN0ZETCp9c
5- Memorias de África….with very nice accent of Maryl Streep
6- ….Lourence de Arabia David line… (full movie.Spanish From 12.30 scene of the match/ sunset and
from 23.30 plano de más de 3 minutos …con mota negra) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C2c6uRoqVw
7- The Party el Guateque………Peter Sellers with the trompet..Opening Scene 3 minutes
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.
Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christopher’s mind.
And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a heartbreaker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.
TALE: ADIOS, CORDERA. Leopoldo Alas Clarín (English translation)
FILMS,DOCUMENTARIES…& DEBATE
Information can be taken from the English blog:
Follow the white rabbit (IES Pedro de Ursua web)
THEMES and TITLES:
1-SILENT FILM:
Short films:
a) the irresistable piano (4.50 minutes).
b) The glue (3.40)
c) Barney Oldfield´s race for a life (13.54)
Film:
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin) (first 8.30)
2-GENDER:
Film: A) Real Women Have Curves directed by P.Cardoso+(link IPES web)
………..B) Different clips about women in the cinema + Several Links
………..C) Italian Short film: What do we think about women?
………..D) Invisibles (2nd part) by Garcia Bernal.
………..E) Short films done by students 3ºESO,Plasencia
………..F) Different links to radio programmes, clips…
Film: Violence against women………. Precious
3. Human Rights:
A) Short Cut (Amnesty I. / Fragment from the film + This Land Is Mine by Jean Renour
4 Emigration/ Inmigration:
a)lecture by Chimamanda Adichie (Nigerian writer.TED TV).(18)
b) Short films: Said´s journey (9.36), Jon Garaño´s On The Line (related to La Jaula de Oro)
c) The Visitor
d) Welcome
e) Parts from :14 kilometres and Invisibles
5 Consumerism:
Documentary- Planned Obsolescence (40)
Short film: Remittance(Remesas)(3.30)
6 Racism:
Shorts/doc a) White Doll, Black doll(68)
(A conversation with children about race)
b) Strangers (7.11)
c) Afrikaner Blood (8.27)
7. Sciencie Fiction:
a)Trailers about different Science-Fiction films
b) Blade Runner
c)Matrix
8. Dissability:
Film a)Blindness
b)Short: 3000 Obstacles
9.Sexual Orientation:
Film: Fucking Aamal
Short films:
a) I don´t want to go back alone (Brazil)
b) Different short films (Irish School…)
10. a)Work World:
Film: Devil wears Prada
Documentary about Vogue´s director
Advertisement about Loewe…
B)Films from other continents:
1. Slungdog Millionaire + China Blue and TV programme 45`+ Broken Tail (documentaries)
b)FOOD:clips from Babbete´s Feast, Estomago
C)SUSPENSE: Memento
d)ANTHROPOLOGY/MUSIC: The Crazy Stranger
11. A)ANIME CINEMA / ECOLOGY:
Film: The Princess Mononoke. +
SHORT FILMS (several from the blog)
12.Cinema and Literature
Film: Romeo and Juliet
Lord of the FLIES
The Scarlet Letter
13.:Other themes:
a) Gran Torino
b) Fargo
c) Publicity: advertisements…
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, mime (US: pantomime) and title cards. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made practical in the late 1920s with the perfection of the Audion amplifier tube and the introduction of the Vitaphone system. After the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, “talkies” became more and more commonplace. Within a decade, popular widespread production of silent films had ceased.
Link to the lectures and information about Silent Film…in Fundación Juan March
*Silent Cinema
Primer ciclo: Melodrama y Star-system
Short films:
3- Barney Oldfield´s race for a life (Mack Sennett)
Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life (1913) is a silent comedy short, directed and produced by Mack Sennett and starring Sennett, Mabel Normand, and Barney Oldfield as himself. It is considered one of the earliest to create the common archetypal silent film plot of a villain tying a young damsel to the tracks of an oncoming locomotive.
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Legend Barney Oldfield stars in this early Sennett comedy. He races a speeding locomotive to rescue Mabel Normand who plays a damsel in distress tied up on the tracks by evil villain Ford Sterling.
City Lights – review (7 minutes)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
To Know a bit more about the actor Charlie Chaplin, you can read this short page in Cashiers du Cinema (one of the best magazines about cinema)
And if you still want to know more about the beginning of the Cinema world, learn a bit more about this woman: Lotte Reiniger
(June 2, 1899 – June 19, 1981) was a German silhouette animator and film director
Another great actor is Buster Keaton. Learn more about him in “The Art of the Gag”
*An example of a very good Norwegean film is “Markens Grode” by Gunnar Sommerfeldt (La bendición de la tierra). “Markens Grode” was based on a very successful book written by the Norwegian Nobel Prize writer Herr Knut Hamsun
We will talk about all the above matters during the class. What do you think about all of them. For or Against original version…
As an example to talk about these points, here you can see a good example from the film Net Work directed by Sidney Lumet (1976)
1) Original vertion
2) Spanish version
Which version do your prefer and why?
What do you think about the translations and the dubbed version?
What do you think about the dubbing actor or voice over actor?
Would you like to know a bit more about this film after watching this clip?
4.Have a brief discussion about zombies eg do students know any films ,series, songs or videogames about zombies? Would they like to watch this series? Then tell them that you’re going to describe a scene from later in the same episode to them . Students should note down key words (not every word) while you say (something like)the following:
5. Students in pairs compare the words they’ve noted down. Then ask them if they want to ask any vocabulary questions. They will. Then they reconstruct the scene, using the present simple.
6-Tell students they are going to watch the scene, and they should find the differences between the description and the clip from 2.40 to almost the end. (*there are several differences).
Students predict what happens next. Play the scene until he hears the voice coming over the radio, and ask them to predict again. (In the next episode, the voice tells him the best route to take from the tank to a nearby meeting place. The police officer follows the instructions and meets the owner of the voice).
7. Now its their turn. Give students time to think about a scene from a film or series which sticks in their mind for some reason, and how to describe it. Help with vocabulary. Then they tell in pairs, and say whether they would like to watch their partner’s film / series.
B) Lion king Circle of Life
Count the number of different animals ie five elephants and three lions count as two animals.
