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days ago former student, my friend on fb, I asked when I would talk about them in my blog ... as it's been so many years of teaching and many are the memories that resurface, then the Cineforum talking now. When he began
? ... In Milan, in the late 80's, early 1990, just at the turn of the decade ...
were years of Japanese cartoons, years of Happy Days ... I realized that the boys saw a lot of television, but rarely stop to listen carefully .... comimciammo to watch movies, and then, over the years, I coded all el 'I continued until his retirement ... in fact, the school where I taught, had become a real preogetto school and I ran it ... talk about a few years ago and it seems a life ... VCR and cassette ...
The project consisted of this: a series of films, changed, divided by subject. l 'friendship, family, school, society, history, films adapted from novels, and so on ...
In sixth grade, I had a few hours (now Professor of the letters have even less) and saw only a couple of movies, usually on the story and then "Lady Hawk" who always liked the guys who, without realizing it , learned so much about the medieval world ...
In the second, then, were films that focused mainly on 'adolescence, on' friendship, family and the tensions and relationships within it ... how strange ... there are films that are always present and others who, while being beautiful, no longer work after a few years, two examples for all: "Mignon Game" and "Stand by me".
The first came when he was wonderful: the story of a boy's transition from children 'to' adolescence ... beautiful, well acted ... and yet, a few years later, the company was changed so that the film, while remaining valid, was dated, "Stand by me", instead, how many years may have, is irreplaceable as an example of the initiation rite of a group of kids and their entry into the 'teens ... moved, amused, involved many classes ...
The day before the film (I saw one a week and lasted around three hours), distributed and read a card ... my first experiences with my computer ... children and their patience tab c ... 'was the title, director, actors, plot and special notations, like the soundtrack or interesting things to remember ...
The day the film was a great party ... The matter was serious and was studying, but want for my character, because you have always succeeded in getting things set for fun ... entertaining ... well I for one in class c 'was everything: pop corn, chips, snacks various ... everyone would sit where he liked, some lying on the ground ... and you could see the film in an atmosphere of pure class A Goduria ... The 3 B in 2002-2003, even before I entered on fb, had created a site "Those who were not a c. .. or Thursday because they saw the Cineforum with Gambardella "... then that was not true, we learned all right ... but there 'was also fun ... I understood that he was late for a job ... I remember some
title:' The Man Without a Face "with Mel Gibson," Fried Green Tomatoes, "which we read the book, like most people ..." The Shawshank Redemption, "based, like" Stand by Me "from" Different Seasons "by Stephen King and many others ... Sometimes we had two or three cycles of small film about an actor like Harrison Ford ... remember, kids "Regarding Henry "?...
In the third c 'movies were on' social work, history, the 'holocaust ... saw in a day of remembrance Rai documentary called" Memory of Auschwitz "shot in '92 or '93 by the Italians survived ... it was beautiful and awesome ... worth the ten lessons of history today ... those who have interpreted it were just a few ... Even
"Schindler's List" was very exciting ... now, if I post a few scenes, I arrive on the fb "I like" so many of them ...
's last film, the one that closed the period was "Music Box" by Costa Gavras where it merges themes such as' love and family with the' political and social commitment ... a lawyer learns that his father , which she loved much, is accused of being a Nazi criminal ... I do not believe it, defends it, then, thanks to the photos found in a music box, a "music box", he discovers the terrible truth about his father ... he'd rather not see it anymore. but, seeing that he is not repentant, and fearing that, by his grandfather, could influence his son, the complaint ...
The film followed the debate, but a year that involve parents, has never been very successful ...
I had formulated a questionnaire, according to whom, but more broadly in the form of discourse, the children reported on the plot, characters, episodes, and particularly important message the film wanted to convey ... that did it for the books they read ...
They loved all the movies a lot of 'horror and more horror was the better ... this applies to all the guys ... and this we we were bulging ...
I was always struck by the maturity with which the children of the medium faced difficult issues, such as the 'abortion in the film, the beautiful "The Cider House Rules" ...
In the third book as fiction, read "The Leopard" and saw the movie, but not everything to pieces insiene ... ... in this case all my charisma was useless ... everyone has always hated the book and film , but then think again as adults, but not always ... when it happened, with courtesy, I have communicated ...
Eventually, in a 'messy atmosphere ... thank you Matt for your class, was made the Top Ten later that it was always for a greater number of films because I really saw many ....
Each gave a vote of films seen and adding the results ... I felt a bit "dismantled" because, sometimes, at the top there 'was a low level of artistic stuff like "It", which, in the film version , is a home video and really put to 'film last place in the level of' C 'we were so loved "the drainage is often considered among the finest films of the 900 ... after all, those were really tough issues, and it was understandable ...
the film for excellence, however, was, is and always will think: "The Green Mile" ... but I love him very much ... but the kids love it ... and the book is very sad ... but also has a fascinating ... I 's I have reviewed and re-read an 'infinite number of times ...
few days, if you had done well, on Thursday, market day in Tonezza Street, to 'last hours, with the permission of the principal, we went out, did the rounds of the market ... then took them to the bakery, I bought some cake all, we went back to class and ate ... what a wonderful sense of freedom and transgression ... how many poems from memory I have imposed on them in exchange for this ... as it was beautiful ... (C 'is also this site ... "or did not do a c. ..") ...
One year, while we saw a horror film entitled "Village of the Damned," a film about aliens with the features of blond children all the same, I had to back out ..., a joke you did find all lying on the ground, pretending to be dead ...
What can I say to all you boys, now young adults, who have shared these moments with me ... thanks for the fun that we get each other, excuse me for some "beeestia 'too I ran away in the most messed up, but ... what a lovely adventure we experienced together!
