Film Studies Checklist

All the films we studied in the last two years:

FS1: Making Meaning
The Quick and the Dead
Red Rock West
The Usual Suspects
Double Indemnity
The Good the Bad and the Ugly

FS2: British Cinema
Billy Elliot
Brief Encounter
Goldfinger
The Wicker Man

FS3: Close Study
La Haine
Once Were Warriors

FS4: Coursework
Saturday Night
Spirited Away
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
Princess Mononoke

FS5
Un Chien Andalou
Blue Velvet
Spirited Away
The Phantom of Liberty
La Belle et la Bete

FS6
A Clockwork Orange
American History X
A Few Good Men
The Godfather

Cinema
The Manchurian Candidate
Garden State
Sideways
Corpse Bride
Hidden

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So, quite a few. If my aim to own a copy of all those is to be successful I'd best get off me airse. Anyway, film studies now being over, time for another pertinient list:

List of Film Studies words and phrases I never need to use, but will do so to annoy people

Mise-en-scene
Intertextual Reference
Micro and Macro Elements
Contextuality
Surrealist Mode
Method Acting
Cinematography
Malyszko

And of course, what film studies course woul be complete without the heady splendour and mahvellous night that is to be found in

The Oscars!
Yes indeed was an evening much looked forward to by the entire cohort. After a long wait outside with free alcohol (being passed around by the years 12s! make them slaves work!) we entered the hall, with the screen all ready to provide the festive film ferlumtousness we expected

I found myself sat next to a sex pest and a legend (ashley and louis respectively...ashley's gay)


Next list:
Award Categories for the 2006 Langley Park Oscars

Best Music Soundtrack
Best Editing
Best Cinematography
Academic Award
Best Performance by an Animal
Best Story
Best Female Actor
Best Actor
Best Special Effect
Best Art Direction
Best Documentary Filmmaker
Best Director(s)
Most Gratuitous Use of Alcohol, Drugs & Sex
Best Individual Shot or Sequence
Best Arthouse Film
Best Film
Audience Award- Best Film

Aaaaaaaaaand the award for Most Gratuitous Use of Alcohol, Drugs & Sex goes tooooooo

ME!!! and dave. BUT ME!!! Woo! A well deserved rubber chicken me feels. Striking a blow for every person of colour, doing it for the children etc etc.

And of course between awards was the raffle, which.. IALSO WON! Nice shiny DVD player, thanky dank Bill.
But, what school function (read, excuse to get completely wasted) would be complete without that master of magic, the head himself, ol' Cheddar, decked out in his best bib and tucker!

Sexy biatch.

Night night. I might get back into the habit of this...

Playing: Unreal Tournament
Reading: The Dilbert Future
Listening to: 'Rock the House' - Gorillaz
Annoyed with: Hm...
Mood: Bored, lonesome...
Song currently stuck in head: 'Declaration' - Trivium
Favourite Song of the Minute: 'Steinbolt' - Squarepusher. Cr-r-r-raaaaaaaazy!!!

...ah

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Very High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Extreme
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very High
Level 7 (Violent)	Extreme
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Extreme
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	High

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

Thriller

Thriller Night. Really, real horror show. First off, allow me to make you all aww


Proper post tomorrow. Certain people and computers are being total cunts. Ttyl

Filler

Why am I the only person who actually has a massive fucking hate of the heat? Chalk it up to being your typical introvert with his vampiric desire for shade (hold the blood please) but seriously, enough is enough. It's currently 23.17 (you know, night, when the sun is no longer shining and it should get cooler?), the french windows are open, and yet i am still here red as a beetroot with sweat pouring out of my forehead like it grew up aspiring to be a waterfall when it grew up.

And you know what? Heat irritates me. Not just cos its blinding and all that, but I do get really hot and bothered (punnage) in this weather. And it just annoys me more when people say to me "But it's glorious weather, it's great, i love the sun, I'm going to have it's babies etcetcetc". First off, when was the heat and light 'good' weather?! Why is rain and cloud 'bad' weather? Both are as natural as each other, why the preference? Cna anyone really give me a reason why sun is better than rain? I can give you my reason for rain over sun (which actually invariably wins me any argument on the subject). Sun causes sunburn,which takes a week (ish) to disappear completely, leaving you scarred, possibly with peeling skin and a higher risk of skin cancer (might kill you). And that's from about... an hour unprotected at midday? Rain, on the other hand, get you wet, perhaps cold if theres a wind blowing. How long does it take to cure yourself of that? 20 minutes with a towel, a mug of a warm drink and a feel good film. Ok yes,hypothermia and pneumonia etc etc, but only if you are out in the cold and damp for long enoughand dont get warm or dry. But in the same time space as the sun exposure, an hour at midday, you don'thave much to worry about (and who doesn't want an excuse to relax?). As Billy Connolly said, 'there's no such thing as the wrong weather, there's only the wrong clothes'.

There's only 3 things I thank the sun for: Nature, salads and female fashion.
Not that the last one of those is at all benefitial for the sweating tomato man of doom here.

Oh, and to anyone who like me this morning, has to go through a 3 hour long exam in this heat. I pity you. So, so much...

To paraphrase Tim Buckley:

"Dear Sun,

FUCK OFF!!!

Kisses and Lollipops,
'chard"

Real post coming soon, i swear