Anti-apartheid writer Andre Brink dies

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31197217

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/07/andre-brink-dies-aged-79

TEACH WITH MOVIES : A DRY WHITE SEASON

http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/dry-white-season.html

ANDRE BRINK: A Letter to Madiba

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-letter-to-madiba

A few videos about Apartheid :

Thans to Alyne Piazza De rudder

FAHRENHEIT  451

 Movie of the Week

 " I remember every detail...The Germans wore grey, you wore blue"...

"- And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.

- That is my least vulnerable spot."

"Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time."

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30932322

http://time.com/3669653/american-sniper-screenwriter-controversy/?xid=newsletter-brief

THE ATLANTIC

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/movies-to-look-forward-to-in-2015/384121/

SLIDESHOW

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/movies-to-look-forward-to-in-2015/384121/

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/12/dylan-thomas

the artists who died in 2014

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/12/revisiting-2014

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_I

http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/king-and-i.html

http://www.bookrags.com/lessonplan/kingandi/

ANNA AND THE KING

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_and_the_King

http://www.acu.edu/academics/cas/theatre/documents/the-king-and-i-study-guide.pdf

MEMOIRS OF AN ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT

http://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-English-Governess-Siamese-Court-ebook/dp/B0015OMWPG

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/leonowensanna/a/anna_king_true.htm

BBC RADIO 4

THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO, ETC...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054792

THE GOTHIC IMAGINATION

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01wdcly

WAS DRACULA IRISH?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n61sr

WHEN GOTHIC WAS BORN

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1DHZFB726CfZ29KDh4sDvnC/about-the-season

THE FILM

http://www.heartlandfilm.org/wp-content/uploads/Becoming-Jane-Discussion-Guide.pdf

http://www.visualhollywood.com/movies/becoming_jane/visual.pdf

RUDYARD KIPLING'S POEM ENTITLED "JANE'S MARRIAGE"

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_janemarriage.htm

See Jane Elope

Why are we so obsessed with Jane Austen's love life?

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2007/08/see_jane_elope.html

FULL TEXT HERE

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/946

AUDIO ON LIBRIVOX + LINKS

 https://librivox.org/lady-susan-by-jane-austen/

OR HERE

OTHER JUVENALIA RECORDED HERE

https://librivox.org/jane-austens-juvenilia-by-jane-austen/

BBC 4 :  epistolary literature

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00775dh

SIENNA MILLER TO STAR IN NEW STILLMAN MOVIE

http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2014/02/13/sienna-miller-to-star-in-jane-austen-adaptation-lady-susan

other films you may want to watch again

http://brielise.hubpages.com/hub/filmslikedownton

WHY YOU SHOULD BE WATCHING DOWNTON ABBEY

http://brielise.hubpages.com/hub/Why-You-Should-Be-Watching-Downton-Abbey#

Same as last year!

http://myschoolbag.eklablog.com/my-favourite-christmas-stories-a104778968

+

Oscar Wilde : The Selfish Giant

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/SelGia.shtml

+

Christmas Day in the Morning.  By Pearl S. Buck

http://www.allthingschristmas.com/stories/InTheMorning.html

https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/A-Christmas-Carol

La version audio est disponible sur le site

https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Audio-Narration-BACKGROUND-of-EBENEZER-SCROOGE-A-Christmas-Carol

https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Charles-Dickens-Animated-Story-of-His-Life

http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/

Transcription:

[A clip from the beginning of episode 3, series 1 of Sherlock, “The Great Game.” The video opens with a black screen and a variation of the Sherlock theme music. White text appears at the bottom of the screen reading “Minsk, Belarus.” The text disappears and the shot pans around a wall into a large, mostly-empty prison visiting room. Sherlock and an inmate in orange prison garb sit across from each other at one of the tables.]

Sherlock: Just tell me what happened from the beginning.

Inmate: We had been to a bar, a nice place, and I got chattin’ with one of the waitresses, and Karen weren’t happy with that, so…we get back to the hotel, we end up having a bit of a ding-dong, don’t we?

Sherlock sighs loudly.

Inmate: She’s always getting at me, saying I weren’t a real man.

Sherlock: Wasn’t a real man.

Inmate: What?

Sherlock: It’s not weren’t, it’s wasn’t.

Inmate: Oh.

Sherlock, exasperated: Go on.

Inmate: Well… then I don’t know how it happened, but suddenly there’s a knife in my hands. And, you know, me old man was a butcher, so I know how to handle knives. He learned us how to cut up a beast—

Sherlock: Taught

Inmate: What?

Sherlock: Taught you how to cut up a beast.

Inmate: Yeah, well, then I done it.

Sherlock: Did it.

Inmate: Did it! STABBED her, over and over and over, and I looked down, and she weren’t—

Sherlock sighs and looks away.

Inmate: …wasn’t…moving no more.

Sherlock rolls his eyes and looks away.

Inmate: Any more. God help me, I dunno how it happened, but it was an accident, I swear.

Sherlock stands and starts to walk away.

Inmate: Hey, you’ve got to help me, Mr Holmes! Everyone says you’re the best. Without you, I’ll get hung for this.

Sherlock: No, no, Mr. Bewick; not at all. Hanged, yes.

[Sherlock walks away as the theme music variation starts up again.]

2 plots and a lot of excitement!

In 1965, Peter Joseph "Peejoe" Bullis lives in a small town in Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. He becomes involved with a group of black students protesting the town's racially segregated municipal swimming pool, leading to a protest that explodes into deadly violence. A young black boy, Taylor Jackson, is killed by the town sheriff. Peejoe, the only witness, is pressured by the sheriff to keep it quiet. However, Peejoe has learned from the example of his free-spirited Aunt Lucille Vinson, who has killed her abusive husband and is headed for Hollywood, where she is convinced that television stardom awaits her.

Lucille takes her husband's head everywhere she goes in a black hat box^[1] and looks forward to Hollywood promises. When the head is discovered by the hostess of a party, Lucille tries to get rid of the head by throwing it off the Golden Gate Bridge. Two policemen, thinking she is about to jump over herself, open the hat box and discover the head inside. She is arrested and escorted back to Alabama for her trial, where she is given a warm welcome by her town.

Source: Wikipedia

The novel(1993), the movie (1999)

http://www.crazyinalabama.com/Crazy_in_Alabama.html

http://www.al.com/alabamiana/index.ssf?literary.html

"Water, water everywhere

And not a drop to drink"                    

                                                                                                                                                                                    Waterless Worlds:  The New Hot Dystopia

Novels and films aimed at young readers and viewers

http://www.npr.org/2014/10/19/357425457/waterless-worlds-the-new-hot-dystopia

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" Not a Drop to Drink"

http://www.amazon.com/Not-Drop-Drink-Mindy-McGinnis/dp/0062198505

(with audio excerpts)

book trailer

http://thebooksmugglers.com/2013/11/book-review-not-a-drop-to-drink-by-mindy-mcginnis.

ACTIVITIES

http://files.harpercollins.com/Mktg/HarperCanada/PDF/Classroom/NotADropToDrink

http://www.mindymcginnis.com/Quiz%20Question-1.pdf

Study guide

study guide

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Drought

http://www.pambachorz.com/drought/

The Water wars

http://www.amazon.com/The-Water-Wars-Cameron-Stracher/dp/1402267592

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2693664/:  Young Ones

The documentary that inspired  Not A Drop to Drink :

BLUE GOLD: The beginning is as scary as a halloween movie!

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140925-where-do-witches-come-from

SHORT FILMS AT THE IRISH FILM BOARD

other films

trailer/ 2'22:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/apr/02/jimmys-hall-trailer-ken-loach-film-video

"In 1921 Jimmy Gralton’s sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War. The Pearse-Connolly Hall was a place where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream…but above all to dance and have fun. As the hall grew in popularity its socialist and free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close. A decade later, at the height of the Depression, Jimmy returns to Co. Leitrim from the US to look after his mother and vows to live the quiet life. The hall stands abandoned and empty, and despite the pleas of the local youngsters, remains shut. However as Jimmy reintegrates into the community and sees the poverty, and growing cultural oppression, the leader and activist within him is stirred. He makes the decision to reopen the hall in the face of what they may bring…"

LIENS PRECIEUX VERS LES PRODUCTEURS

http://www.sixteenfilms.co.uk/films/film/42/jimmys_hall

PRODUCTION NOTES

http://www.wildbunch.biz/films/jimmys_hall;creditshttp://www.wildbunch.biz/films/jimmys_hall;credits

PRESS KIT  : IN ENGLISH

http://static.wildbunch.biz/pdf/4db7253f-bc2d-431f-afe3-71087ddca909.pdf

IN FRENCH:

http://www.festival-cannes.fr/assets/Image/Direct/92ec2366b3a751ddd36e8c2d17732903.pdfhttp://www.festival-cannes.fr/assets/Image/Direct/92ec2366b3a751ddd36e8c2d17732903.pdf

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL :

http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/100007371/year/2014.html#http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/100007371/year/2014.html#

British Coalminers Strike With A Gay Coalition In 'Pride,' A Crowd-Pleaser

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/26/351766949/british-coalminers-strike-with-a-gay-coalition-in-pride-a-crowd-pleaserhttp://www.npr.org/2014/09/26/351766949/british-coalminers-strike-with-a-gay-coalition-in-pride-a-crowd-pleaser

Télécharger « The Angels'shareThe_plot..pdf »

Télécharger « symbols.pdf »

Télécharger « scotland2.pdf »

Télécharger « SCOTLAND1.pdf »

Télécharger « Put_the_sentences_in_chronological_order.pdf »

Télécharger « put the sentences corrigé.pdf »

Télécharger « Community_Service_orders.pdf »

Télécharger « Bande_annonce_the_angels'_share.pdf »

Télécharger « angels'share the plot corrigé.pdf »

Télécharger « The_Community_Payback_Order-1.doc »

Télécharger « The Angels'shareThe_plot..pdf »

Télécharger « Affiche_du_film.pdf »

Télécharger « 50_fascinating_facts_you_should_know_about_Scotland.pdf »

Télécharger « 3_reviewsThe_Hollywood_Reporter_the_independent_the_guardian.pdf »

Télécharger « The_Community_Payback_Order-1-4.pdf »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/scottish-politics/9007300/Scottish-referendum-50-fascinating-facts-you-should-know-about-Scotland.htmlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/scottish-politics/9007300/Scottish-referendum-50-fascinating-facts-you-should-know-about-Scotland.html

QUELQUES ACTIVITES FAITES EN CLASSE (LYCEE) ET DES DOCUMENTS : GUIDES, PRESS KIT, REVIEWS...

ics/9007300/Scottish-referendum-50-fascinating-facts-you-should-know-about-Scotland.html

Questions 

 a) Watch the opening scene of Woody Allen's Manhattan

Talk about your first impressions? Colours? Old film?

b) CO :  Write as you listen  (lab)

Screenplay : Manhattan by WoodyAllen

c)Who is the narrator (voice over) according to you? What's his occupation?

d) What is he trying to do? 

 Try to identify the various styles and/or genres.

http://web.mit.edu/21fms/People/henry3/manhattan.html

The narrator's hesitations / Manhattan's ambivalence...

 e) Find out about the music and say how you feel about it.

Manhattan music mystery

f) How does this extract make you feel?

e) Tone of the film? Can you guess?

What do you know about Woody Allen? his sense of HUMOUR?

Gerschwin and Woody Allen, common points?

 part II

Watch this extract from Smoke by Wayne Wang and PaulAuster

A still from Manhattan : " A city in black and white"

A still from Smoke ( a photo in Auggie Wren's album)

Parallèle à l'histoire dans l'histoire, l 'image  dans l'image, puis à la fin, le film dans le film.

Comment appelle-t-on cette technique? Mise en abyme?

  Le passage est en principe plus long, donc il vaut mieux disposer du film disponible sur dvd!

Voir l'article consacré à Christmas sur ce blog pour y trouver d'autres extraits et la nouvelle

Christmas

  Who is the narrator? What's his job?

What's his passion?

Are the photos really  "all the same"? What does Auggie Wren explain to the "novelist" Paul Benjamin?

What is the key sentence in this extract? ("slow down")

What is the "moral" of this extract? Paul Benjamin ( the writer) should have guessed...

What about the music? Compare with Manhattan and Gershwin in Rhapsody in Blue

Find the quotation from Shakespeare.

What is the MOOD in this extract?

Vision of "New York" or vision of the photographer's state of mind?

Your conclusion?(= feelings too!)

What do the 2 film extracts have in common?

 Read Auggie Wren's Christmas Story : It is  a story within a larger story.

What does it tell us about writing, authorship  and telling stories?

What does it tell us about life, vision, taking and giving?

Telling a story, taking a photo, shooting a film and giving (life)...

Telling a story and visual arts (photo, film or the reader's ability to visualize..)

Watch this extract to understand Paul Benjamin's problem:

Beginning : the narrator's problem : inspiration, "the white sheet"...

  III

New York is not only a setting!

Explain.

Beginning : the narrator's problem : inspiration

Read novels by Paul Auster; The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, Brooklyn Follies for example

Watch more about Woody Allen and Paul Auster.  

Paul Auster on  BOOKS and FILMS

Manhattan : NYT Film Review 1979

blog: every woodyallen movie.com/post/manhattan

Woody Allen's guide to New York City

Mise en scène analysis of Manhattan

twenty-four frames

FINAL TASK

 Invite your students to shoot a short film with their phone to "write" their love letter to their (favourite) city and use a song they like as amusical background.....Have them discuss their films and explain why they chose such and such shots; They can send them to e-pals, etc...

Here is one with Alicia Keyes singing "Empire State of Mind" and One Republic singing "Good Life"

 The end....? not yet : 93 extracts from movies about New York. Ideal for a quiz.

ON NPR : AN INTERVIEW WITH MARGARET ATWOOD

Hardcover, 273 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $25.95 | purchase

Book Summary

The award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents a collection of short stories that features such protagonists as a widowed writer who is guided by her late husband's voice and a woman whose genetic abnormality causes her to be mistaken for a vampire. 60,000 first printing.

 

DO'S AND DON'TS 

BIG BEN

 Cleaners abseil down one of the faces of Big Ben, to clean and polish the clock face, above the Houses of Parliament, in central London, on August 19, 2014. (Reuters/Toby Melville)

  TO ABSEIL

ONE THING LEADING TO ANOTHER  ( de fil en aiguille, mais les "clocks" ont des "hands", donc ça ne le fait pas!)

This man ( Harold Lloyd) is not really "clockwise!"

 BROADWAY

How Harold Lloyd filmed Safety Last

HUGO /MARTIN SCORSESE

A tribute to the cinema, Melies, Harold Lloyd...PARIS

The Lumière Brothers, first film-makers (Lyon!)

Les horloges du musée d'Orsay

GREAT RESOURCES

filmeducation : DOSSIER

DOSSIER CRDP STRASBOURG/ HUGO CABRET,  DE MELIES A SCORSESE

http://www.grignoux.be/dossiers/329http://www.grignoux.be/dossiers/329

READING THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET PDF

wonderstruckthebook.com

CHEZ SHMOOP

MANY FILM REVIEWS ARE AVAILABLE !

Piste : réalisation d'un book trailer  

COLLEGE AU CINEMA SITE

THIS IS ENGLAND

TEX AVERY FOLLIES

LORD OF THE FLIES

MONTY PYTHON

LOOKING FOR ERIC

FICHE ELEVE

LES VIKINGS

LA FLECHE BRISEE

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

FRANKENSTEIN

FICHE ELEVE

REAR WINDOW

et bien d"autres...(pages 6 et 7)