Surface Matters
Todd Haynes’s latest film mistakes aesthetics for meaning.
See also...
Carol review: 'Cate Blanchett will slay you'
Carol (2015) Cinematography Analysis
Cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC, On Shooting “Carol”
The Brilliant Subversiveness of ‘Carol’s’ Conventional Ending
Behind Carol: the photographers who influenced Todd Haynes’ award-winning film
Cinematographer Edward Lachman on ‘Carol’ as a Stylistic Foil to ‘Far From Heaven’
Explore...
Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism
Shaun of the Dead - 'The Plan' montage
Mastering the Movie Colour Palette: del Toro
House of Flying Daggers - sound
Fallen Angels: A Wong Kar Wai Masterpiece
Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag
Solving the Many Mysteries of What Became ‘Carol’
'Carol,' 'Erin Brockovich' Cinematographer on How He Turns Images Into Ideas
New...
Get involved in the Hartismere: 'Focus Your Fitness February Challenge!
CABARET THE MUSICAL. Playhouse Theatre, London. Y9-13. Wednesday 15th April 2026
Discover...
Film Studies Carol Aesthetics Examinations GCE ZEN Trips Sport Calendar Year 11 Captain Fantastic NEA BFI Vacancies Physical Education Vertigo A Level History Oscars Test Theatre Films
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...