Entertainment For Lively Minds
A dream job - assistance required
Posted by hargarino on 30 January 2008 - 10:15am.
Today in my new capacity of librarian for a secondary school i started a DVD library with an initial purchase of 125 DVD s. The self set criteria were simple .
No 18 certificates
Any film with artistic and/or educational merit
Documentaries welcome.
I welcome suggestions for my second 125 purchases in April.
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You'd better start by...
...telling us what your first 125 were.
Here you are
"Spartacus"
Kirk Douglas; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Cyrano De Bergerac"
Gerard Depardieu; DVD; £6.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Charles Dickens BBC Collection: The Pickwick Papers / Oliver Twist / A Christmas Carol / Martin Chuzzlewit / David Copperfield / Tale Of Two Cities / Great Expectations / Our Mutual Friend"
Michael Hordern; DVD; £45.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The BBC TV Shakespeare Collection"
Alvin Rakoff; DVD; £95.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Jean De Florette/Manon Des Sources [1986]"
Yves Montand; DVD; £7.48
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Touch Of Evil [1958]"
Charlton Heston; DVD; £5.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Brokeback Mountain [2005]"
Jake Gyllenhaal; DVD; £5.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Capote [2005]"
Phillip Seymour Hoffman; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Syriana [2005]"
George Clooney; DVD; £4.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Good Night and Good Luck [2005]"
David Strathairn; DVD; £13.48
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "On The Waterfront [1954]"
Marlon Brando; DVD; £3.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Planet Earth : Complete BBC Series (5 Disc Box Set) [2006]"
David Attenborough; DVD; £24.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Life In Victorian Britain"
Terry Molloy; DVD; £8.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room [2006]"
Alex Gibney; DVD; £8.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Simon Schama'sThe Power Of Art: The Complete BBC Series"
Simon Schama; DVD; £17.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Billy Liar [1963]"
Tom Courtenay; DVD; £5.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Third Man [1949]"
Orson Welles; DVD; £12.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Suffragettes - The Story Of Emmeline Pankhurst [1994]"
The Suffragettes; DVD; £7.99
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Hot Fuzz (2 Disc Special Edition) [2007]"
Simon Pegg; DVD; £6.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "An Inconvenient Truth [2006]"
Al Gore; DVD; £2.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]"
Vivien Leigh; DVD; £5.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "A History of Britain : The Complete BBC Series (6 Disc Box Set)"
Simon Schama; DVD; £50.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers [1956]"
Kevin McCarthy; DVD; £6.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "The History Boys [2006]"
Richard Griffiths; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Terrorstorm - A History Of Government Sponsored Terrorism [2006] (NTSC)"
Alex Jones; DVD; £9.99
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Newsreel History Of The Third Reich - Hitler's Rise To Power - The Early Years"
Newsreel History of the Third Reich; DVD; £8.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Last King Of Scotland [2006]"
James McAvoy; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "City Of Lost Children [1995]"
Ron Perlman; DVD; £7.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Russian Revolution In Colour"
DVD; £7.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Lives Of Others [2007]"
Martina Gedeck; DVD; £7.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Lord Of The Flies [1963]"
James Aubrey; Tom Chapin; Roger Elwin; Tom Gaman; Hugh Edwards; DVD; £14.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Tell No-One [2006]"
Marie-Josee Croze; DVD; £6.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Touching The Void [2003]"
Brendan Mackey; DVD; £8.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Edvard Munch [Masters of Cinema] [1976]"
Peter Watkins; DVD; £14.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Sicko [2007]"
Michael Moore; DVD; £10.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Great Expectations [1946]"
John Mills; DVD; £5.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Life Is Beautiful [1999]"
Roberto Benigni; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Battleship Potemkin [1925]"
Alexander Antonov; DVD; £6.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Trench [1999]"
Paul Nicholls; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Being John Malkovich [2000]"
John Cusack; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Das Cabinet Des Dr Caligari [1919]"
Werner Krauss; DVD; £14.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Oliver! [1968]"
Ron Moody; DVD; £3.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Stand By Me [1987]"
Wil Wheaton; DVD; £3.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Lawrence of Arabia - Two Disc Set [1962]"
Peter O'Toole; DVD; £4.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Doctor Strangelove (Collectors Edition) [1963]"
George C. Scott; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Amistad [1997]"
Morgan Freeman; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Brief Encounter [1945]"
Celia Johnson; DVD; £3.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "2001: A Space Odyssey [1968]"
Keir Dullea; DVD; £4.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Twelve Angry Men [1957]"
Martin Balsam; DVD; £3.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Malcolm X [1992]"
Denzel Washington; DVD; £7.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "The Birthday Party [1968]"
Robert Shaw; DVD; £6.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Queen [2006]"
Helen Mirren; DVD; £5.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "The Wizard Of Oz [1939]"
Judy Garland; DVD; £3.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Some Like It Hot - Special Edition [1959]"
Marilyn Monroe; DVD; £5.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Romeo And Juliet [1996]"
Leonardo DiCaprio; DVD; £3.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Delicatessen [1991]"
Jean-Claude Dreyfus; DVD; £3.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Amelie (Two Disc Special Edition) [DTS]"
Audrey Tautou; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Kes [1969]"
David Bradley (II); DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Of Mice And Men [1992]"
John Malkovich; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Adaptation [2003]"
Nicolas Cage|Meryl Streep; DVD; £4.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Bowling For Columbine [2002]"
Michael Moore; DVD; £8.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "A Passage To India [1984]"
Judy Davis; DVD; £4.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit [1990]"
Charlotte Coleman; DVD; £9.48
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Monty Python's Life Of Brian [1979]"
Graham Chapman; DVD; £4.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Brazil [1985]"
Jonathan Pryce; DVD; £3.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "The World At War - Complete TV Series (11 Disc Box Set)"
Laurence Olivier; DVD; £38.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "To Kill A Mockingbird (2 Disc Special Edition)"
Gregory Peck; DVD; £5.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Color Purple (Special Edition) [1985]"
Danny Glover; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "In Search of Shakespeare [2003]"
Michael Wood; DVD; £14.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "John's Not Mad (BBC Q.E.D. Documentary) [1989]"
John Davidson; DVD; £6.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Citizen Kane [1942]"
Orson Welles; DVD; £3.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Lost In Translation [2004]"
Scarlett Johansson; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Crucible [1997]"
Daniel Day-Lewis; DVD; £4.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Girl With A Pearl Earring [2004]"
Colin Firth; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "The Nazis - A Warning From History [1997]"
Samuel West; DVD; £6.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Blazing Saddles (30th anniversary edition) [1974]"
Cleavon Little; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "American Splendor [2004]"
Paul Giamatti; DVD; £4.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Homecoming [1973]"
Jonathan Sachar; DVD; £5.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Elephant [2004]"
Alex Frost; DVD; £6.48
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Rhinoceros [1974]"
Zero Mostel; DVD; £5.97
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind [2004]"
Jim Carrey; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Looking For Richard"
Al Pacino; DVD; £3.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Talking Heads - The Complete Talking Heads"
Alan Bennett; DVD; £15.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The English Patient (Special Edition) [1996]"
Ralph Fiennes; DVD; £5.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "The Ascent Of Man"
Dr. Jacob Bronowski; DVD; £37.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Civilisation : Complete BBC Series (4 Disc Box Set)"
Kenneth Clark; DVD; £36.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "In Search Of Myths And Heroes"
Michael Wood; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Enduring Love [2004]"
Daniel Craig; DVD; £5.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "The Oscar Wilde BBC Collection : The Importance Of Being Earnest / The Picture Of Dorian Gray / An Ideal Husband / Lady Windermere's Fan (3 Disc Box Set)"
John Gielgud; DVD; £12.97
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "Schindler's List [1993]"
Liam Neeson; DVD; £5.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "A Very Long Engagement - 2 Disc Edition [2004]"
Audrey Tautou; DVD; £4.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
1 "The English Civil Wars"
Robert Powell; DVD; £8.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Hotel Rwanda"
Don Cheadle; DVD; £8.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Kings And Queens Of England - The Tudors - 1485 To 1603 [2004]"
The History File; DVD; £8.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "The Kings And Queens Of England - The Stuarts - 1603 To 1649 And 1660 To 1714 [2004]"
The History File; DVD; £10.99
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Downfall [2004]"
Bruno Ganz; DVD; £5.98
Sold by: Amazon.co.uk
1 "Dennis Potter - Blue Remembered Hills"
Michael Elphick; DVD; £14.98
Sold by: Amazon's Jersey Merchant, Indigostarfish.com
had to cancel some through not being available anymore but this is lot so far
You What? You f*cking WHAT?
No "Sexy Beast"?
You (editors note: removed to avoid startling the horses)
WHAT? It's an 18?????? For f(that's enough of that)'s sake.
Dogtown and the Z Boys
Not the dramatised 'Lords of Dogwtown' - but the original stunning indie documentary about the seventies Californian skateboard scene. Incredible filming, footage and photography. Delicously edited and with an impeccable soundtrack including
Led Zep' and Hendrix to Bowie album tracks and The Stooges
Here's the Japanese trailer
The 'Classic Album' series DVDS are highly recommended too, my wife works in the Media department of a local school, where they regularly show the 'Making of Dark Side of the Moon' to the media classes
If nobody else is going to say it, I am
Can't they take it home and watch it on their own time?
We're always hearing how the curriculum is so full they can't fit one more thing in it. We even have universities inventing a "reading week" during which students all over the country are supposedly busy doing the one thing they're supposed to go to university for. Unscientific research I've conducted into it suggests they're actually in bed.
How could you suggest such a thing?!
The very idea that Britain's fine young men and women would take adavantage of their educational opportunities in such a way!
Oh hold on a minute... I had a reading week when I was at university and spent it in the pub.
Right you are then.
Pre digital age..
We used to have the school TV wheeled in for educational programmes in a classroom environment. It's just an updated version of that.
They only show about 30 minute selections to illustrate certain editing, mixing techniques. I would guess the Floyd DVD is used as there's a good chance parents may have the album at home for further research.
Don't get me started
Don't get me started on the education system.
My daughter's choosing her GCSE (O Levels in real money) options at the moment: top of her list is Digital Photography. As far as I'm concerned that barely passes muster as a hobby, never mind an academic discipline.
Think I'm going to go and and enrol as a "mature student". Subject: Shouting At The Telly
That's a classic
It's a way of offering photography without having to have a dark room or any of that other troublesome stuff.
But you do have to learn Photoshop...
May I recommend as an insomnia cure Martin Evening's seminal (but incredibly tedious) tome 'Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers'. You'll be off in dreamland before you can say 'pixel' to a goose.
Dark Room?
Dark Room? Snark Room. Get with it, Grandad. There's plenty of lavishly-appointed IT suites involved, plus Photoshop and what have you.
And maybe if I did a bit more home-tutoring she could point to France on a map. Or multiply 6 by 7 without having to thing it through and check "online".
the good old days
We could always go back to old "Skool" comps like the one I went to cracked lino, the rank smell of cabbage, hand basins smashed off at the wall, casual racism and homophobia, even more casual violence from kids and teachers a like, one computer (in total) and our only day trip in several years a trip down a coal mine! We had darkroom but it was where they put the bad lads to quieten them down a bit.
Are you seriously suggesting
Are you seriously suggesting that "casual homophobia" doesn't exist in schools anymore because of the wonders of "progressive" education policies? You must live in Cloud-cuckoo Land. Or somewhere where there are no teenage boys. Here's the news: kids call cartoons of drink "gay" these days, never mind other people. But fewer of them can spell the word.
sorry "casual homophobia" by
sorry "casual homophobia" by the teachers.Schools now a days are much better than they use to be. My brothers a teacher and even though lifes not straight forward for them (and at times grim I imagine) he has openly gay pupils something that would have been unheard of 25 years ago. I just get a bit tired of everyone knocking schools, yes our kids are important but teachers must be the only profession who have everyone else telling what to do all the time. Journos get huffy if non professionsal write the odd blog or contribute to wikipedia imagine the uproar if every single thing they did was held up to minute inspection. (particulalry by people who haven't stepped inside a new room in there life). I thought it was excessive of everyone to go off on (sub-daily mail) rants about eductaion when a simple list of films that children should watch was asked for. But let's not fall out about this and put on a copy of the goonies. :)
No further questions, your
No further questions, your honour
Yes they can - it's not for during school hours
only for personal and occasional late stay use
On the plus side...
...at least you got out of bed.
Reading week
At my university, reading week simply means writing week. There's always one just before the assignment deadline: as if that's a good time to read...
My life as a dog Lasse
My life as a dog Lasse Hallestrum, the red balloon, the magnificent seven, the vikings, the goonies, the time bandits, when the wind blows, little women the 1940's version, You need more left field stuff as kids already see loads of vids. Oh and of course gregory girls and Kes (so they can see that modern schools aren't that bad after all)!
Education, education, education
In my new capacity as head of cultural studies for a secondary school I started designing next year's curriculum. The criteria for the inclusion of lessons were simple:
Nothing tiresomely difficult for students.
No marking required from staff.
Overseas jollies encouraged.
We're starting each term with a "Meditating Week", which students will be allowed to pursue in the comfort of their own homes.
Parts of each subsequent week will be devoted to the study of modern cultural phenomena such as "Selling graffiti to suckers", "Concealing a blade in everyday clothing" and "Understanding the rules of Government Benefits".
On Friday afternoons, older students (14+) will able to attend a variety of nearby retail licenced premises, in order to meet as diverse a cross-section of the general public as possible for cultural exchange purposes. These lessons may last until the early hours of Saturday morning.
I'd welcome suggestions for other activities we might include.
crossdressing - an antidote to bullying
Reading - past it or not?
What about some shane
What about some shane meadows "a home for romeo brass" is really good. Or some film noir may be a bit too grown up (although not gory or explicit). You seem to have only left wing documentaries how about some balance? although can't hink of any right wong ones ooops!