Hartismere School

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

Home Login

Surface Matters


Todd Haynes’s latest film mistakes aesthetics for meaning.

See also...

Carol (Haynes, 2015)

Carol (2015) Cinematography Analysis

Carol review: 'Cate Blanchett will slay you'

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

The Brilliant Subversiveness of ‘Carol’s’ Conventional Ending

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

Cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC, On Shooting “Carol”

Explore...

Carol Featurette - Screenplay (2015) - Cate Blanchette, Rooney Mara Drama HD

Superimposition in film

The importance of scene transitions

'Carol,' 'Erin Brockovich' Cinematographer on How He Turns Images Into Ideas

Mastering the Movie Colour Palette: del Toro

House of Flying Daggers - mise-en-scene

Jonathan Glazer on Under the Skin

House of Flying Daggers - Wuxia Romance

Under the Skin - Explained

Do the Right Thing - Screenshot podcast

New...

Summer 2026 Examinations

Parents Evening :: Year 11

March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

Chicago Teen edition - tickets available soon

LEFT ITEMS IN THE FOOD ROOM

8S1 Chemistry Thermal Decomposition

9S4 Chemistry Paper Chromatography 2

CABARET THE MUSICAL. London. Y9-13. Weds 15th April 2026- Only a few places left

Discover...

Film Studies Carol Aesthetics Examinations GCE ZEN Ingredients Cooking Theatre BFI Fallen Angels Events Year 11 Nutrition Assessment Hartismere The Hollywood Reporter March Films A Level Recipes Key Stage 3

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...