时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:英语听和读


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Yvonne: This year welcomes The Times newspapers’ 50th BFI London Film Festival!
This British Film Institute festival is a truly international affair that focuses on
great films rather than marketing 1 big Hollywood movies.
Hello, I’m Yvonne Archer 2 and you're listening to Entertainment from
bbclearningenglish.com!
Sandra Hebron is the artistic 3 director of the London Film Festival and in an
interview for the BBC World Service, she talks about the international nature
of the festival – particularly this year, its 50th. Listen out for the countries
Sandra mentions…
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One of the best things the festival can do is to say that there is originality 4 and creativity to be
found literally 5 around the globe. I think one of the things that I would say about this year is
that we are still seeing really amazing work being produced from Latin America. I think
Argentina continues to be really strong, you know, we have the new film by Pablo Trapero,
we have Adrian Caetano's new film - something like 7 or 8 really strong new films from
Argentina.
Mexico too is emerging too as very much one of the leading Latin American cinemas. I think
that East Asia continues to be very strong. We're very happy obviously to have “Still Life” -
Jia Zhangke's Venice winning film. But there are films from Japan, Korea - actually, two or
three films from the Philippines this year too, which is really a sort of new thing that we're
seeing. So a very kind of, a very diverse spread of work from really a huge range of countries. 
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Yvonne: Wow, that’s a pretty impressive list of countries - and many of them have
more than one film to be shown during the London Film Festival. But how
many of those countries did you manage to catch? Sandra Hebron mentioned
Argentina and Mexico as Latin American countries and there was Japan,
Korea and the Philippines from Asia. But did you notice any of the
adjectives that Sandra used to describe those films – which she obviously
thinks are worth seeing? They’re adjectives that you might come across in film
reviews. See how many of them you can catch as we hear from Sandra
again…
INSERT - SANDRA HEBRON
One of the best things the festival can do is to say that there is originality and creativity to be
found literally around the globe. I think one of the things that I would say about this year is
that we are still seeing really amazing work being produced from Latin America. I think
Argentina continues to be really strong, you know, we have the new film by Pablo Trapero,
we have Adrian Caetano's new film - something like 7 or 8 really strong new films from
Argentina.
Mexico too is emerging too as very much one of the leading Latin American cinemas. I think
that East Asia continues to be very strong. We're very happy obviously to have “Still Life” -
Jia Zhangke's Venice winning film. But there are films from Japan, Korea - actually, two or
three films from the Philippines this year too, which is really a sort of new thing that we're
seeing. So a very kind of, a very diverse spread of work from really a huge range of countries.
Yvonne: How did you get on? We heard ‘originality’, ‘creativity’, ‘amazing’ and we
heard ‘really strong’ more than once. There was also ‘leading’ – as Sandra
described Mexico as ‘one of the leading Latin American cinemas’ – so Mexico
is producing some of the best films from the Latin American area. And you
may have noticed Sandra’s last comment that there’s ‘a very diverse spread of
work’ – meaning that there’s a very large variety of films to be shown during
The Times 50th BFI London Film Festival! 
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A very diverse spread of work from really a huge range of countries.
Yvonne: As there are so many great films to see during the Film Festival, it’s almost
impossible to see them all. So how do we decide which films are worth seeing?
BBC Learning English’s Alice Castle has attended the Berlin Film Festival, the
Karlovy Vary Film Festival in Prague and of course, the London Film Festival.
And Alice has also written several film reviews. Here she is with some tips on
how to choose our films:
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If you're going to a big film festival and you're trying to decide which films you want to see,
read the little what they call a 'blurb 6' which is the little bit of information that's written
underneath 7 the film title and you'll usually find that they'll tell you what the story is, who the
director is, who the actors are – and that usually gives you a pretty good idea if you're going
to like the film.
Yvonne: Alice has her favourite countries and directors and that helps her to choose
which films to watch. But if we’re new to film festivals, all we need to do is
simply read the ‘blurb – that's the information we're given about each film
including its story - and that’s a good way to find a film that will interest us!
The main aim of the London Film Festival is simply to show good films!
Perhaps you’ve seen some films from your own country which you think are
original and creative enough to take part in an international film festival. Why
not talk about that in English after today's Entertainment?! 

1 marketing
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
2 archer
n.射手,弓箭手
  • The archer strung his bow and aimed an arrow at the target.弓箭手拉紧弓弦将箭瞄准靶子。
  • The archer's shot was a perfect bull's-eye.射手的那一箭正中靶心。
3 artistic
adj.艺术(家)的,美术(家)的;善于艺术创作的
  • The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
  • These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。
4 originality
n.创造力,独创性;新颖
  • The name of the game in pop music is originality.流行音乐的本质是独创性。
  • He displayed an originality amounting almost to genius.他显示出近乎天才的创造性。
5 literally
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
6 blurb
n.简介,短评
  • This book fails to give what the blurb describes.这本书不像该书护封上所描绘的那样好。
  • In the blurb I couldn't see anything about thinking at all.在这本书的简介中,我根本找不到任何有关思想的东西。
7 underneath
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
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aecidium araliae
amblotic
Antiscians
antiwetting
Arévalo, Tierra de
ask(ed) price
backstreet processing shops
Barda del Medio
beautifully-designeds
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buphanine
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calcagno
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Clematoclethra argentifolia
commonwealth citizen
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cracows
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dishabilitation
dispuesto
Dufour effect
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Eisstein
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Empidoidea
epsilonic
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field composable lens
find surety
flat headed apple borer
focus magnet
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germination vigor
goes for nothing
great-grandchild
group of wave vector
homopentameric
human resources department
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inadvertent cloud modification
inversion zone
leistikow
lip-smackingly
lotus positions
malthusian growth
mastadenovirus infectious canine hepatitis
medicornu
melodised
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of nights
oolithotus fragilis
oversell stock
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Panthalassa
phibbs
Pipel
polymicrogyria
poppadom
Pressley index
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Promyelomonocyte
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quakey
quick selling product
real time communications
research on man's all-round way development
resewn
rhinoscleroma
rodsters
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soddy
spot-red
stacket
succumb(to)
surveying and mapping
thessalonicas
thin magnetic film memory
value for feeding
Wanaka Lake
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welter screen
Xanthium orientale