FILM SECTION
- Films I recommend you to start with are the following. Do not hesitate to send me your best choices:
1. “AVATAR“. In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge’s intentions of driving off the native humanoid “Na’vi” in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na’vi people with the use of an “avatar” identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand – and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora.
2. “The Simpsons Movie“. See the trailer and decide if you would like to watch it. Of course, you will!
3. JORGE CEBRIAN ( 2º D Bachillerato) proposes the following tv serie: “How I met your mother”.
4. JORGE CEBRIAN (2º D Bachillerato) proposes the following film: “The Book of Eli”. Thirty years after an apocalyptic event, Eli travels on foot toward the west coast of the United States. Along the way, he demonstrates uncanny survival and fighting skills, hunting wildlife and swiftly defeating a group of highway bandits who try to ambush him. Searching for a source of water, he arrives in a ramshackle town built and overseen by Carnegie. Carnegie dreams of building more towns and controlling the people by using the power of a certain book. His henchmen scour the desolate landscape daily in search of it, but to no avail.
- FILMS YOU CAN BORROW FROM THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT:
You can borrow a film on DVD from the English Department. Most of them are in English or Spanish, with subtitles.
- Piratas del caribe 1
- Piratas del caribe 2
- Las chicas del calendario
- Master and commander
- El último Samurai
- Lost in Translation
- Cold mountain
- La joven de la perla
- Y entonces llegó ella
- Hasta que la ley nos separe
- The Stepford wives –Las mujeres perfectas
- The door in the floor
- El Mito de Bourne
- El Ultimatum de Bourne
- Sky Captain y el Mundo del Mañana
- La terminal
- Bridget Jones -sobreviviré
- Conociendo a Julia
- A million dollar baby
- El secreto de los hermanos Grimm
- El secreto de Vera Drake
- La última primavera
- Los padres de él
- La intérprete (The interpreter)
- AEON FLUX A leap of faith
- OLIVER TWIST
- IN GOOD COMPANY the struggle for …
- Secretos compartidos – PRIME a…
- Mrs Henderson presenta “Tonight and every
night” - CRASH
- Orgullo y prejuicio (Pride and Prejudice)
- Brokeback Mountain
- El miedo espera EN LA TINIEBLA
- El jardinero fiel
- The Queen
- King Kong
- El ilusionista
- Buenas noches, buena suerte
- Separados
- Scoop
- El Buen Pastor
- El velo pintado
- Un funeral de muerte
- Miss Potter
- Un funeral de muerte
- Michael Clayton
- Expiación –más allá de la pasión
- Porque lo digo yo
- American ganster
- Babel
- Nanny diaries- Diario de una niñera
- La Joven Jane Austen
- Las hermanas Bolena
- Cassandra’s Dream
- Mamma Mia !
- Retorno a Brideshead (Brideshead revisited)
- Miss Potter
- Una familia con clase
- Posdata: te quiero
- Slumdog millionaire
- The reader
- El intercambio (Changeling)
- Mi nombre es Harvey Milk
- Valkiria
- Radio encubierta
- La sombra del poder
READING SECTION
As always I leave you my first recommendations:
- A Foreigner in Britain: In this story we follow Antonio on some of his journeys and visit many of his favourite places in England, Scotland and Wales. We meet his friends and through them learn about Britain’s customs and traditions, the usual and the not so usual!
- ‘The boy in the striped pyjamas’, by John Boyne. ‘Simply written and highly memorable’. IRELAND ON SUNDAY
- ‘The curious incident of the dog in the night-time’, by Mark Haddon. ‘Fifteen-year-old Christopher has a photographic memory. He understands maths. He understands science. What he can’t understand are other human beings. When he finds his neighbour’s dog lying dead on the lawn, he decides to track down the killer and write a murder mystery about it. But what other mysteries will he end up uncovering?
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ by J. K. Rowling. It is the seventh and final of the Harry Potter novels written by the British author . This book chronicles the events directly following Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005), and leads to the long-awaited final confrontation between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort.