Comments on: The Semester Begins: Movies About Learning http://www.filmwell.org/2010/01/15/the-semester-begins-movies-about-learning/ Is This a Film Blog? Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:55:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Carl Laamanen http://www.filmwell.org/2010/01/15/the-semester-begins-movies-about-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-1422 Carl Laamanen Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:49:02 +0000 http://www.filmwell.org/?p=4892#comment-1422 Freedom Writers is one that immediately comes to mind. Freedom Writers is one that immediately comes to mind.

]]> By: Ron Reed http://www.filmwell.org/2010/01/15/the-semester-begins-movies-about-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-1421 Ron Reed Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:48:20 +0000 http://www.filmwell.org/?p=4892#comment-1421 Mr Holland "kind of cheesy"? Only "kind of"? But I say, cheese is part of any balanced diet. "Close to tears"? Heck, I wept the first time I saw it, sitting right out there in public on an airplane. An AIRPLANE movie and the tears are squirting all over the place. But darn that movie got to me. Sure it aims for the emotions, but it's all about vocation, and middle age, and what you find yourself doing instead of what you yearned to do, and says yeah it's tough, but also maybe it's okay. But it's also tough. As Mr Holland is to composition, Mr Bailey is to architecture. Suggestions for other films on the reading list this semester: To Sir, With Love Half Nelson Blackboard Jungle And perhaps my favourite... Ferris Bueller's Day Off Mr Holland “kind of cheesy”? Only “kind of”? But I say, cheese is part of any balanced diet. “Close to tears”? Heck, I wept the first time I saw it, sitting right out there in public on an airplane. An AIRPLANE movie and the tears are squirting all over the place. But darn that movie got to me. Sure it aims for the emotions, but it’s all about vocation, and middle age, and what you find yourself doing instead of what you yearned to do, and says yeah it’s tough, but also maybe it’s okay. But it’s also tough. As Mr Holland is to composition, Mr Bailey is to architecture.

Suggestions for other films on the reading list this semester:

To Sir, With Love
Half Nelson
Blackboard Jungle
And perhaps my favourite…
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

]]> By: Andrew http://www.filmwell.org/2010/01/15/the-semester-begins-movies-about-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-1420 Andrew Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:55:01 +0000 http://www.filmwell.org/?p=4892#comment-1420 Tavernier made a teaching movie called Ca Tout Commence Aujourdhui, which is excellent. Of the Hollywood baloney, I'd see Stand and Deliver again (I've never seen Freedom Writers, but I think I'd like to give it a look). And don't count out The School of Rock. Tavernier made a teaching movie called Ca Tout Commence Aujourdhui, which is excellent.

Of the Hollywood baloney, I’d see Stand and Deliver again (I’ve never seen Freedom Writers, but I think I’d like to give it a look).

And don’t count out The School of Rock.

]]> By: M. Leary http://www.filmwell.org/2010/01/15/the-semester-begins-movies-about-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-1419 M. Leary Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:15:18 +0000 http://www.filmwell.org/?p=4892#comment-1419 To Be and To Have To Be and To Have

]]> By: Joel Mayward http://www.filmwell.org/2010/01/15/the-semester-begins-movies-about-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-1418 Joel Mayward Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:11:06 +0000 http://www.filmwell.org/?p=4892#comment-1418 "Half Nelson" and "The 400 Blows" come to mind, at least for junior high-aged education. “Half Nelson” and “The 400 Blows” come to mind, at least for junior high-aged education.

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