INTRODUCING BRITISH FILM DIRECTORS

Using a leaflet format, you research and introduce your favourite contemporary British film director, introduce him/her to the class and post the leaflet on your blog.

Suggested choices: Ridley Scott, David Yates, Ken Loach, Guy Ritchie, Shane Meadows, Danny Boyle, Edgar Wright, Gurinder Chadha, Sally Potter, Stephen Daldry, Richard Curtis, Paul Greengrass, Saul Dibb, Stephen Frears, Pawel Pawlikowski, Anthony Minghella, Kathryn Bigelow.

RESOURCES:

BFI Screenonline

Film Four

IMDB

Working Title Films

40 Best Directors

Pavel Pawlikowski: Dirty Pretty Things, Last Resort, This World

Michael Winterbottom: Jude, Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People, In This World

 Ridley Scott

Richard Curtis Four Weddings(1994) Love Actually (2003) The Boat That Rocked (2009)

Danny Boyle: Trainspotting (1996) 

Mike Leigh: Another Year (2010) 

Shane Meadows: This is England (2006)

Ken Loach: Ae Fond Kiss (2004) Looking For Eric (2009)

Neil Jordan: The Crying Game (1992)

Stephen Frears: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) High Fidelity (2000)

Mike Newell: Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)

Alan Parker: The Commitments (1991)

Nicholas Hytner: The Madness of King George (1994)

Derek Jarman: Caravaggio (1986)

Anthony Minghella:The English Patient(1996) The Talented MrRipley

Sam Taylor Wood: Nowhere Boy (2009)

John Madden Shakespeare in Love (1998)

100 Favourite Films 

Box Office Top 100

EXCELLENT STUDENT LEAFLETS!

By Charlotte Lewin

 

By Ben Murray

By Lewis Harland

INTRODUCING KEVIN MACDONALD

We view extracts from Kevin MacDonald's Life in a Day video documentary and discuss how new technology is changing audiences into makers. Life in a Day is a documentary film project by YouTube, announced on July 6, 2010. Users sent in videos of themselves on July 24, 2010, and then Oscar-nominated director Ridley Scott produced the film and edited the videos into a film with director Kevin MacDonald and film editor Joe Walker, consisting of footage from some of the contributors.