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Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism


Two women fall in love in this new film from Todd Haynes, based on the Patricia Highsmith novel “The Price of Salt.”

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Solving the Many Mysteries of What Became ‘Carol’

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Carol Featurette - Costume Design (2015) - Cate Blanchett, Kyle Chandler Drama HD

House of Flying Daggers - sound

Superimposition in film

Under the Skin explained

Academy Conversations: Carol

House of Flying Daggers – Ending Notes

Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag

Why Are Wong Kar-Wei Films so Dreamy?

Film Education resource: House of Flying Daggers

The Brilliant Subversiveness of ‘Carol’s’ Conventional Ending

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