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From Nosferatu to The General – why the 1920s is my favourite film decade


Chaplin and Keaton made millions laugh, but silent cinema’s greatest classics were the fruit of wild European fancy … and then Hollywood invented the talkies

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Stories We Tell - the Guardian Film Show review

Under the Skin: Analysis of Film Form, Narrative and Ideology

House of Flying Daggers - Wuxia Romance

Zhang Yimou - Visionary of China's past

Vertigo Film Score Analysis

Three act structure

Movies | The Guardian

Under the Skin - Sound

Understanding Fallen Angels

What is a frame narrative?

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