Back to blogging

Dear blog,

I haven't blogged for a while, because I was busy enjoying the summer. On a few occasions I was thinking about you, giving rise to a strange desire to share my thoughts on the films I've seen. However, something was always preventing me from doing it. But now I'm back in the Academy and we have to be friends again.

So what has happened so far?

On Tuesday we were introduced to the new first years, they seem nice. We were also informed there are many, many, many restrictions to kit use, absence and so on. It feels a bit like the army (or at least that's what my friends say).

In the afternoon we started taking a closer look at factual content, how to make a basic research and also discussed how much we actually know about factual film making. Frankly speaking, it is not an easy task to create a documentary which is engaging enough. One of the most memorable ones that I've seen is "The most hated family in America", by Louise Theron and the one about homosexual politicians in the US (was it called "Outrageous"?)"I am looking forward to these classes and hopefully we'll be able to make a short 5 min documentary about an original topic, based in Glasgow! I don't know why, but I keep thinking about the bluefin tuna scandal, since it's everywhere in the newspapers. Maybe a field trip to Monaco is a good idea to explore the subject in a greater detail.

On Wednesday was the first class with a young director, who is interested in our choice of favorite movie scenes. I still haven't shown mine, but I'm dying to do it! I guess I'm just a bit afraid of what the other classmates will think of it. It's from "A streetcar named Desire". I find every scene in this film perfect, and I want to show it because of the incredible performance of Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh. At first I was wandering between the opening scene of "Hiroshima mon amour", because it's extremely beautiful and the second scene in "Last tango in Paris". The second film is quite delicate and one scene probably won't give even slight insight of what is going on. And since Hiroshima is only available on video tape, Elia Kazan's film will do.

On Thursday we were off, and Friday was the first class from the new cinema module. It is concentrated on European cinema and how from being influenced from American one, became a factor of a new genre and style that Hollywood seems to be trying to imitate nowadays. Even though it's hard to encompass even a small part of the interesting European films in this class, I still think we need to watch some more French films.