Robert Redford: A Star Among the Stars

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 17 September 2025 > In the News

Robert Redford died on September 16, 2025, at the age of 89, in his Sundance (Utah) home. A charming actor, Oscar-winning director, and founder of the world’s most important independent film festival, he spanned six decades of American cinema by combining seduction and rigor, star power and political conscience, Hollywood heritage and a desire for … Continue reading “Robert Redford: A Star Among the Stars”

A Cinema Pioneer: Alice Guy

Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 12 September 2025 > Celebrate

Alice Guy was one of the first and pioneering filmmakers, working in France and the U.S.A. at the beginning of cinema. Her contributions seemed to have been forgotten but she finally being recognised, with a retrospective at the Deauville Film Festival, a role in the Paris 2024 opening ceremony and an upcoming TV series devoted … Continue reading “A Cinema Pioneer: Alice Guy”

Meet the Authors: Shine Brighter Seconde Replay

Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 19 June 2025 > Pedagogy Shine Bright Lycée

Comment appliquer les nouveaux programmes en seconde en septembre ? Shine Brighter 2e vous a convie à un webinaire le 11 juin pour échanger avec deux des autrices du manuel sur le thème “Comment construire les repères culturels en développant les compétences langagières des élèves ?” Le nouveau programme d’anglais applicable en septembre 2025 propose un renforcement des entrées culturelles ainsi … Continue reading “Meet the Authors: Shine Brighter Seconde Replay”

New for Lycée: Shine Brighter Seconde

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 30 April 2025 > Pedagogy Shine Bright Lycée

Shine Bright 2e is back in an all-new edition, Shine Brighter, to accompany you putting in place the new curriculum for seconde from September. It’s packed full of themes designed with students’ interests in mind. Watch the introductory video to find out more: In the new curriculum, there are 6 cultural axes in 2e, with … Continue reading “New for Lycée: Shine Brighter Seconde”

Assessing musicals with 4e euro

Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 19 January 2023 > Pedagogy

Our challenge last year was to get 4e students interested in musicals! As we couldn’t take them abroad on an exchange, we felt like taking “a bit of abroad” to them, through musicals. You can read what we planned to do here, and below you’ll find our conclusions about what worked and what didn’t. Though … Continue reading “Assessing musicals with 4e euro”

See How They Run: A Whodunit Within a Whodunit

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 14 September 2022 > Shine Bright Lycée What's On

On 1952 London’s West End, Agatha Christie’s play, The Mousetrap, is a hit. Hollywood comes knocking at the stage door. But plans for a movie version of this smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after the film’s Hollywood director is murdered. Reality The Mousetrap occupies a special place in the work of Agatha Christie. … Continue reading “See How They Run: A Whodunit Within a Whodunit”

Film Vocabulary

Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 14 March 2022 > Ready to Use

This worksheet was used as in introductory activity to a project on film musicals for 4e euro. You can read about the project in our Pedagogy section.

Go West!

Posted by Speakeasy News > Saturday 20 November 2021 > What's On

We’re all used to disclaimers at the end of movies saying, “This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.” The new Netflix twist on a western, The Harder They Fall, turns that on its head, opening the film with the disclaimer, “While the … Continue reading “Go West!”