Week Three (2017.3.2)
1. 89th Academy Awards: took place on February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, at 5:30 p.m. PST.
2. 美國大學生沒有學到的核心能力: critical thinking, reasoning and writing skill
4. François Truffaut: a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave.
Ernst Ingmar Bergman: a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, theatre and radio. He is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential auteurs of all time, and is most famous for films such as The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972) and Fanny and Alexander (1982).
Akira Kurosawa: a Japanese filmmaker. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.
5. Manchester by the Sea: a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan and starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and Lucas Hedges. The plot follows a man who looks after his teenage nephew after his brother dies. (IMDb with trailer)
6. August: Osage County: a 2013 American comedy-drama film written by Tracy Letts and based on his Pulitzer Prize–winning play of the same name, and directed by John Wells. It is produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Jean Doumanian and Steve Traxler. (IMDb with trailer)
7. One True Thing: a 1998 American drama film directed by Carl Franklin. It tells the story of a woman who is forced to put her life on hold in order to care for her mother who is dying of cancer. It was adapted by Karen Croner from the novel by Anna Quindlen. The novel and film are based on Anna Quindlen's real life and her struggle of dealing with the death of her mother, Prudence Pantano Quindlen in 1972, due to ovarian cancer. (IMDb) (trailer)
8. Lipstick Effect: the theory that when facing an economic crisis consumers will be more willing to buy less costly luxury goods. Instead of buying expensive fur coats, for example, people will buy expensive lipstick.
9. 游龍戲鳳: 明武宗與民間女子李鳳姐相愛為題材的民間文學，小說、雜劇、戲曲、多有演絳，近代以來多被改編為電影、電視劇
10. 不被祝福的愛 unfulfilled love →attract the audience, resonate in people's heart
11. La La Land: a 2016 American musical romantic drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, and starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a musician and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles. The film's title refers both to the city of Los Angeles and to the idiom for being out of touch with reality. (IMDb with trailer)
12. Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch: an English actor who has performed in film, television, theatre and radio. He is the son of actors Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham. Cumberbatch graduated from the University of Manchester and continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, obtaining a Master of Arts in Classical Acting.
Sherlock Holmes: a 2009 British-American neo-noir mystery period action film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. (IMDb with trailer)
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