FILMS AND READINGS

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.

  1. Piratas del caribe 1
  2. Piratas del caribe 2
  3. Las chicas del calendario
  4. Master and commander
  5. El último Samurai
  6. Lost in Translation
  7. Cold mountain
  8. La joven de la perla
  9. Y entonces llegó ella
  10. Hasta que la ley nos separe
  11. The Stepford wives –Las mujeres perfectas
  12. The door in the floor
  13. El Mito de Bourne
  14. El Ultimatum de Bourne
  15. Sky Captain y el Mundo del Mañana
  16. La terminal
  17. Bridget Jones -sobreviviré
  18. Conociendo a Julia
  19. A million dollar baby
  20. El secreto de los hermanos Grimm
  21. El secreto de Vera Drake
  22. La última primavera
  23. Los padres de él
  24. La intérprete (The interpreter)
  25. AEON FLUX A leap of faith
  26. OLIVER TWIST
  27. IN GOOD COMPANY the struggle for …
  28. Secretos compartidos – PRIME a…
  29. Mrs Henderson presenta “Tonight and every
    night”
  30. CRASH
  31. Orgullo y prejuicio (Pride and Prejudice)
  32. Brokeback Mountain
  33. El miedo espera EN LA TINIEBLA
  34. El jardinero fiel
  35. The Queen
  36. King Kong
  37. El ilusionista
  38. Buenas noches, buena suerte
  39. Separados
  40. Scoop
  41. El Buen Pastor
  42. El velo pintado
  43. Un funeral de muerte
  44. Miss Potter
  45. Un funeral de muerte
  46. Michael Clayton
  47. Expiación –más allá de la pasión
  48. Porque lo digo yo
  49. American ganster
  50. Babel
  51. Nanny diaries- Diario de una niñera
  52. La Joven Jane Austen
  53. Las hermanas Bolena
  54. Cassandra’s Dream
  55. Mamma Mia !
  56. Retorno a Brideshead (Brideshead revisited)
  57. Miss Potter
  58. Una familia con clase
  59. Posdata: te quiero
  60. Slumdog millionaire
  61. The reader
  62. El intercambio (Changeling)
  63. Mi nombre es Harvey Milk
  64. Valkiria
  65. Radio encubierta
  66. La sombra del poder

READING SECTION

As always I leave you  my first recommendations:

  1. 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!
  2.  ‘The boy in the striped pyjamas’, by John Boyne. ‘Simply written and highly memorable’. IRELAND ON SUNDAY
  3. ‘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?
  4. 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.

 

4.-‘Winter in Madrid’, by C.J.Sansom. Harry felt panic beginning to stir. The thought of going back to Spain both excited and appalled him. A world of denunciations and midnight arrests. And Sandy Forsyth in the middle of it all! He looked at the photo again. ‘I’m not sure,’ he said slowly. ‘I mean, I’m not sure I could carry it off.’ It is 1940. The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined, its people starving, while the Germans continue their relentless march through Europe.

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