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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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House of Flying Daggers - the value of women

Expressionism

How to write scene transitions

Documenting Women's Rites: An Interview with Filmmaker Kim Longinotto

How Spike Lee's 'Do The Right Thing' Still Resonates Today

Vertigo is not the last word in misogyny, but a feminist deconstruction of it

What is a frame narrative?

A Girl's Own Story

DP/30 @ Sundance '13: Stories We Tell, storyteller Sarah Polley

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Parents Evening :: Year 12

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WAR HORSE, Norwich Theatre Royal, Thursday 6th November 2025 Places available

Parents Evening :: Year 10

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