AT Cours d'Anglais

21/08/2026

12/05/2026

‘The Odyssey’ is arguably the biggest film of Christopher Nolan’s career. It may also be the summer blockbuster the entertainment industry needs right now.

Nolan’s been dreaming about a Homeric epic for decades, and it’s hard not to notice that Odysseus’ journey has haunted all of the movies he’s written and directed. Men recruited to make personal sacrifices for a greater cause (‘Batman Begins’, ‘Interstellar’, ‘Dunkirk’, ‘Tenet’, ‘Oppenheimer’); men yearning to return to their children (‘The Prestige’, ‘Inception’, ‘Interstellar’); narrative structures that fracture and loop through time (all his movies).

For more than 20 years, Nolan carried his vision through Gotham, through outer space, through Los Alamos. Then, in 2023, ‘Oppenheimer’ grossed nearly $1 billion and won seven Oscars. “That gave me options,” says Nolan. “And what had never really been done is a cinematic telling of ‘The Odyssey’ with all of the capacity of a large-scale Hollywood studio production. It’s an odd gap in movie history.”

It’s the first feature-length film shot entirely on IMAX, and the scale is truly awe-inspiring.

For Matt Damon, filming The Odyssey was the most rewarding experience of his career. “Movies like this are not getting made anymore. To do this without a green screen … I don’t know anybody, with the exception of Chris, that’s even trying to do that. I looked at this like the last movie I’d ever do.”

Get exclusive insight into the filming process and read interviews with Nolan, Damon, Anne Hathaway, and Emma Thomas here: https://time-magazine.visitlink.me/Tq9aXH

18/08/2025

07/07/2025

Welcome July

“’Tis July, and the fields are deep in grass,
And the leaves are thick on every tree,
And a murmuring sound is on the breeze
Of insects and the busy bee.”

From “The Waggoner” by William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

📷JULY: Water Lily and Great Dragonfly, 1906. 📷Edith Holden. ‘The Country Diary Of An Edwardian Lady.’

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28/03/2025

🇬🇧 Don’t Get It Confused!
Many people mix up England, Great Britain, the UK… Let’s break it down:
🔹 England – A country (like Nigeria), capital: London.
🔹 Great Britain – The island made up of England, Scotland (Edinburgh), and Wales (Cardiff).
🔹 United Kingdom (UK) – Full name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
It includes:
• England
• Scotland
• Wales
• Northern Ireland (capital: Belfast)
And ✋ don’t confuse Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland – that’s a separate country, capital: Dublin 🇮🇪
Now you know the difference! ✅

29/01/2025

How did you meet your true love? Disney's 101 Dalmatians, 1961

In this iconic scene, set in London's Regent Park, dogs Pongo and Perdita unwittingly bring their owners Roger and Anita together. The scene ends with the couple loosing their balance and landing into the nearby pond.

Image: Walt Disney

07/01/2025

Dickensian , a British drama television series that premiered on BBC One from 26 December 2015 to 21 February 2016. The 20-part series, created and co-written by Tony Jordan, brings characters from many Charles Dickens novels together in one Victorian London neighbourhood, as Inspector Bucket investigates the murder of Ebenezer Scrooge's partner Jacob Marley.💕💕❤️❤️