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!!!