'Destiny'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I want to marry Guillermo del Toro's spicy brains. This is a movie I think Jim Henson would have made if he's ever done a truly adult film. It's got all your standard fairy tale tropes, but it's dark as hell for a movie about a little girl who may or may not be a reincarnated princess from the underworld. And beautifully shot -- it shifts POVs absolutely seamlessly.
[eta: Jilli! I need you to see it so I can find out if we agree on Certain Things. I suspect we will.]
[eta: Jilli! I need you to see it so I can find out if we agree on Certain Things. I suspect we will.]
Gaaaaah! I don't want to wait until December!
Hivemind question.
For school, one of our assignments states "Choose a movie or work of literature that discusses the topic of education and the arts". We then have some questions we have to answer, regarding art education and adolescents...but I am SUCKING at coming up with a movie or book.
Ideas? Anyone?
You should do "Take the Lead" - the teacher dancing movie with Antonia Banderas.
Or "Dangerous Minds" with the poetry and stuff.
Mr. Holland's Opus.
hahahahahaha
Dangerous Minds is a good idea, haven' seen Take the Lead - and Mr. Holland is all about him, if I remember right, more than the kids.
To Sir with Love! Duh.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (I think)
Blackboard Jungle.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Stand By Me (Olmos plus math)
Only The Strong -- Stand By Me with capoeira instead.
Music of the Heart -- I think this one had Meryl Streep playing a violin teacher to a bunch of underprivileged kids. Ends up with her students giving a concert at the Carnegie Hall. A bit sappy, but fits the bill.
Dead Poets Society. Well, you may not want to have a classful of weeping kids though. (Well, it makes *me* cry. Shut up. *sniffles*)
The Faculty!
I mean, Elijah Wood and Clea Duvall as students, Jon Stewart, Piper Laurie, Salma Hayek, Famke Jansen, and Robert Patrick as teachers...what's not to love?
Although they probably don't mean for you to pick a slasher movie.
The Piano Teacher Far more disturbing than a slasher flick.
Donnie Darko has some stuff about poetry and creative writing and adolescents and visual arts, but it would be a challenge to pull it together.
Apparently I only think of disturbing movies.