'Sleeper'
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.
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.
Stand By Me is DH's favorite movie, no surprise there.
Sean, I am so looking forward to Flyboys. The trailer was just wonderful. I must be a bit of a boy, but anything with planes in it, I can not resist.
The Professional.
Guillermo del Toro's
Say no more! makes note of December
How did you end up seeing it, Jess? Was it a reviewer screening?
"Choose a movie or work of literature that discusses the topic of education and the arts".
Rushmore? If you squint your mind a little, it works.
How did you end up seeing it, Jess? Was it a reviewer screening?
Yep -- it's at the NYFF (Sept-Oct), so they're screening it for the press now even though it's not officially out until the end of the year.
"Choose a movie or work of literature that discusses the topic of education and the arts".
Fame.
I mean, I'm pretty sure the kids were supposed to be adolescents.
What's the one about Hitler and his painting teacher? Or am I making up a movie that doesn't exist.
What's the one about Hitler and his painting teacher?
I was Hitler's Painting Teacher for the FBI!
OK, that probably doesn't exist.
Max. I think.
Did that have John Cusack or am I the one now making things up? Or, wait, was that his art dealer, not his teacher?