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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: A Reappraisal

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

Pan's Labyrinth

Spike Lee on Do The Right Thing's legacy

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

Movies | The Guardian

The Modern Silent

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

WOMEN MAKE MOVIES | Kim Longinotto

Superimposition in film

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8yS/Sc4

March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

11S_Ch1 Potable and Waste Water

Examination Arrangements: Summer 2026

11S_Ch1 Life Cycle Assessments

Chicago tickets now on sale

10S2 Moles

Summer 2026 Examinations

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