Hartismere School

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

Home Login

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

Explore...

Fallen Angels: A Wong Kar Wai Masterpiece

Searching for Fallen Angels' Lost Lens

Jonathan Glazer on Under the Skin

Stories We Tell - the Guardian Film Show review

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

What is a frame narrative?

Fallen Angels - Explained

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

Vertigo Film Score Analysis

Realism

New...

Parents Evening :: Year 11

CABARET THE MUSICAL. Playhouse Theatre, London. Y9-13. Wednesday 15th April 2026

Get involved in the Hartismere: 'Focus Your Fitness February Challenge!

Parents Evening :: Year 13

March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

Summer 2026 Examinations

Head of Department - History

Cover Supervisor

Discover...

ZEN The Guardian Film Studies GCE Silent Film Coursework Trips March Drama Student Information Assessment YouTube Under The Skin Revision GCSE Aesthetics Vertigo Pan's Labyrinth Examinations History Alamanc

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...