Sherlock wins big at Emmys in Los Angeles

BBC NEWS: Emmy Awards

THE EMMYS IN THE GUARDIAN ONLINE

Another movie by Whit Stillman that may be interesting for students (lycée).

The action takes place on an American campus.

4 girls decide to change the rules of that posh male-dominated world.

Funny and witty as ususal.

SEE PREVIOUS ARTICLE FOR UNOFFICIAL WEBSITE

Interviewing Whit Stillman: A cinematic sense and sensibility

Interview

REASON N°1

Whit Stillman is full of wit

The Last Days of Disco:Lady and the Tramp

An unexpected and funny analysis of Disney's Lady and the Tramp.

Irony at its best

No teaching material. Laughing material

 unofficial script of this scene here

And here is a beautiful tribute to the film-maker::

The Discreet wit of Whit Stillman

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REASON N° 2

He is a great Jane Austen lover : (watch Metropolitan, a tribute to Mansfield Park,

transposed to PARK Avenue) with allusions to Persuasion and Emma.

Read this excellent article :

Mansfield Park at the Movies by Ellen Moody

at 

The same article can also be found here :

Reverie Under The sign of Austen

review of Metropolitan in The New York Times :

whit-stillman-s-metropolitan-a-modern-comedy-of-manners

Reviews on various blogs

janeausten.co.uk/metropolitan-clueless-and-bridget-joness-diary

mansfield-park-metropolitan-austens-morality-whit-stillmans-modern-world

austenprose.com/2008/08/20/metropolitan-1990-movie-musings-discussion

From mansfield park to Metroolitan : The abandoned Generation.pdf

Here is another review :

Austenised

on  PBS :

The_complete_jane_austen_

Another fascinating site :

 http://www.jasna.org

A deeper analysis of film adaptations of Austen's novels

PDF

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LAST BUT NOT LEAST / REASON N°3

A scoop : Whit Stillman's next film will be an adaptation of

 Jane Austen's Lady Susan , a short epistolary novel.

Entitled Love and Friendship, the filmwill be shot in Ireland,

starring Sienna Miller and Chloé Sevigny

Whit Stillman's Unofficial Site

About Love And Friendship

Read Jane Austen's LADY SUSAN on

PEMBERLEY

 Ellen Moody's teaching

WHAT ROBIN WILLIAMS TAUGHT US ABOUT TEACHING

Actor Robin Williams dies at 63

Robin Williams

NPR

RESCOL AUGUST2014

Gothic literature

THANKS TO MICHELLE HENRY

Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Dr Watson's (Martin Freeman) adventures in 21st Century London.Why noy work on Sherlock  : The Blind Banker?

 Plenty of great things to do.

My favourite scene: Sherlock  discovers the  corpse of a golden boy.

There are plenty of other episodes.

The one at Buckingham

Palace, for example,

The DVD for all three seasons will be availablein France in September.

2 autres articles correspondent à Sherlock sur ce blog :

http://myschoolbag.eklablog.com/search?q=sherlock

BBC NEWS Nadine Gordimer

 BBC Nadine Gordimer : other pages

BBC 4 Woman's hour : an interview

Interview de 34mn sur le site des Nobel Prizes

NPR

The Huffington Post: The Great Post-Mandela disillusin 'an interview with nadine Gordilmer)

 Un lien vers New Standpoints sur Nadine Gordimer . She passed away on July,13 th.

http://www.newstandpoints.com/fr/nadine-gordimer-south-african-nobel-dies-90

http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=420

My hero: Nadine Gordimer by Gillian Slovo +
Tributes to Nadine Gordimer : JM Coetzee entre autres...

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/19/my-hero-nadine-gordimer-gillian-slovo-jm-coetzee-justin-cartwright-elizabeth-lowry

Five must-read books :

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/15/nadine-gordimer-five-must-read-books-nobel-laureate-death-90


http://www.liberation.fr/livres/2014/07/29/premiere-fois-derniere-fois-souvenirs-de-nadine-gordimer_1072416

En Afrique du Sud : les médias et les sites:

News 24.com

mediaclubsouthafrica.com

Nadine Gordimer ; South African History Online

Channel 24

SouthAfrica.net

On peut trouver beaucoup d'autres vidéos sur le site Nobel Prize!

Autres :

Crimes of Conscience (non fiction)

Available works : Une mine d'articles en pdf!

About July's People

miscelaneajournal.net/images/stories

Six Feet of The Country : a complete teaching kit

TROUVE SUR AGREG- INK.net

Once Upon a Time avec questions

http://bths.enschool.org/ourpages/auto/2010/2/1/47903085/Country%20Lovers002.pdf

Voir aussi le Courrier International...

 .courrierinternational.com

"Le magazine phosphore a fait un super numéro sur New York"

   http://www.phosphore.com/actualites/phosphore/90/en-aout-partez-a-new-york-avec-phosphore.html

http://www.phosphore.com/actualites/phosphore/90/en-aout-partez-a-new-york-avec-phosphore.html

 Liste des oeuvres :

  Washington Square by Henry James (1850) Pierre or, The Ambiguities by Herman Melville (1852) The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)  The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1925) The Rules of Civility (les Règles Du Jeu) by Amor Towles (2011) Breakfast at Tiffany's  by Truman Capote (1958) The Catcher in the Rye (L'Attrape-Coeur) by J.D. Salinger (1951) Just Above My Head (Harlem Quartet) by James Baldwin (1979) Sheila Levine is dead and living in New York by Gail Parent (1972) Sylvia : a Novel de Leonard Michaels (2013) Just Kids byPatti Smith (2010). Bright Lights, Big City (Journal d'un Oiseau de nuit)  by Jay McInerney (1984) Let the  Great World Spin (Et Que Le Vaste Monde Poursuive Sa Course Folle) by  Colum Mc Cann (2009) The Bonfire of The Vanities (Le Bûcher des Vanités) by Tom Wolfe  1987 The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster (2005) One Fifth Avenue ( Cinquième Avenue) by Candace Bushnell (2008) Blood Brothers  (Souvenez vous de moi) by Richard Price (1976) http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/44617/  Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Extrêmement Fort et Incroyablement Près) Jonathan Safran Foer (2005) The Submission (Un Concours de Circonstances) by Amy Waldman (2011) The Privilèges by Johnathan Dee (2010)

Certains, pour les classiques, sont à 0 cts d'euro sur amazon sous le format  kindle."

 Merci à E. Vittoz  qui propose aussi la liste des chansons : 

http://fruitmuffincorner.blogspot.fr/2014/07/songs-about-new-york-city.html

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/19/332361946/to-meet-a-mockingbird-memoir-recalls-talks-with-harper-lee

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.

Remember: the story takes place on June16, 1904

James Joyce's Ulysses: the most dangerous Book

Transcript

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Joyce's Dublin today: a walking map!

Enter into the world of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, by following its characters as they walk the streets of Dublin on June 16, 1904. 

 BLOOMSDAY

Official site

                                                                                         the Guardian

BBC NEWS:   Maya Angelou: US author, poet and activist dies aged 86

Barack Obama gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011

Growing old :audio

CBS slide show :The prince of Darkness

"the Godfather's father"

"The Godfather Part II"

• Young Vito Corleone, quarantined at Ellis Island, in "The Godfather Part II" (1974). Cinematography by Gordon Willis.

  Credit: Paramount Pictures

BBC NEWS :Teenager lands Spielberg film deal(video)

The Guardian (article) + video+ photos

The Batmobile

Adam West and the Batmobile from the 1966 film: Batman. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext

+

theguardian.com/film/2014/may/13/batman-ben-affleck-batmobile-snyder-first-look

Bollywood meets Hollywood in Tampa

BRIDE AND PREJUDICE ON FILMEDUCATION

Songwriters Behind 'Frozen' Let Go Of The Princess Mythology

The song "Let it go" won an oscar / HOW DID THEY COME UP WITH THE IDEA?

If you have young children, you may know by heart the songs from the Disney animated musical Frozen, including its massively ubiquitous "Let It Go." The songwriting team behind the Oscar-winning hit is Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, a married couple with two children who each sing on the soundtrack.

Robert Lopez co-wrote the satirical Broadway musicals Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, which is now touring. He is now an EGOT, the acronym for the select few who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. Together, the two also wrote the songs for the 2011 Disney animated musical Winnie the Pooh. They tell Fresh Air's Terry Gross about the inspiration for the songs from Frozen, including "Let It Go" and a "very strong strike across the bow at all princess-myth things" song that didn't make the film.

NPR TRANSCRIPT

TEACHING RESOURCES OF ALL KINDS

I'm not giving the link to the parody for college students because there's some inappropriate language in it,

I'll just qive the line "my grades never bothered me anyway"...

Elena Ringo's Illustration of the Snow Queen by H.C. Andersen

http://time.com/44106/game-of-thrones-decoder/

LITERARY LONDON

(Permalink)

British Library : Gothic in comics and literature exhibition

The 10 greatest Movies of the Millenium (so far)

English 103: Analyzing and Interpreting Literature

Video + quiz + transcript for each topic

Analyzing and interpreting literature

Literary terms

http://www.shmoop.com/

NPR : Divergent-a-film-about-a-risk-taker-that-plays-it-safe

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/21/292225721/a-meteoric-rise-for-young-divergent-author

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/20/291138006/its-faction-against-faction-in-a-grim-future-chicago

A review on IMDB

divergent on shmoop, a study guide for students.

NYT : Anatomy of a scene

The Guardian :

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins US National Book Critics Circle award

The Guardian.com                       Crédits :Photograph: David Levenson/Getty

Review from the Guardian.com

lien vers l'interview de NPR classée dans la rubrique "Black people in the USA"

OLIVER TWIST

FILMEDUCATION : DOSSIER TRES COMPLET SUR LE FILM DE POLANSKI

BBC SCHOOL RADIO : podcasts par episodes

programme notes for teachers