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Carol review: 'Cate Blanchett will slay you'


Carol is gorgeous, gently groundbreaking, and might be the saddest thing you’ll ever see.

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

Carol (Haynes, 2015)

Cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC, On Shooting “Carol”

Carol (2015) Cinematography Analysis

Surface Matters

Cinematographer Edward Lachman on ‘Carol’ as a Stylistic Foil to ‘Far From Heaven’

The Brilliant Subversiveness of ‘Carol’s’ Conventional Ending

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World of Wong Kar Wei - go 7 minutes and 13 seconds in!

Cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC, on Carol

House of Flying Daggers – Ending Notes

Mastering the Movie Colour Palette: del Toro

House of Flying Daggers - sound

Jonathan Glazer on Under the Skin

Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag

Under the Skin - Explained

House of Flying Daggers - the value of women

How to write scene transitions

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Parents Evening :: Year 9

School Policies

Online safety newsletters

The importance of scene transitions

Understanding Fallen Angels - To be a Lost Soul

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

The Lost Boys - the vampires attack

Superimposition in film

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