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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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Behind Carol: the photographers who influenced Todd Haynes’ award-winning film

House of Flying Daggers - sound

A Girl's Own Story

Searching for Fallen Angels' Lost Lens

Film Education resource: House of Flying Daggers

Zhang Yimou - Visionary of China's past

25 Years Later, How Spike Lee's 'Do The Right Thing' Changed Race Relations In America

House of Flying Daggers: A Reappraisal

Pan's Labyrinth

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