Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Flipside - Cult British Cinema

Flipside - Cult British Cinema


Revisiting the many British films that have fallen through the cracks, this Flipside collection favours the overlooked, the sidelined and the undervalued.

Explore...

Film post-production explained

Understanding Fallen Angels - To be a Lost Soul

House of Flying Daggers: A Reappraisal

Do the Right Thing - Screenshot podcast

Dracula podcast

What is an Inciting incident?

The Lost Boys opening

The Wave: Cinema's most terrifying lesson

The Wave: Tim becomes Wenger's bodyguard (clip 6 of 9)

House of Flying Daggers – Ending Notes

New...

Open afternoons

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

Stranger Things, The First Shadow. The Phoenix Theatre, Friday 11th September.

Summer 2026 Examinations

Change of Head of Year 9

Impact Evaluation of LAMDA Exams in Schools

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

LAMDA Performance and public speaking exams 2026-2027

Discover...

Private Study FM4 FM1 A Level ZEN Film Studies Revision GCSE Drama The Lost Boys Aesthetics Mrs Davy Programming Vertigo Carol Attack The Block Careers Representation College Key Stage 3 Student Information A Level CS Hartismere

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...