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


“It seamlessly evokes the period by paying homage to the great photography of the time.”

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The Brilliant Subversiveness of ‘Carol’s’ Conventional Ending

Carol review: 'Cate Blanchett will slay you'

Surface Matters

Cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC, On Shooting “Carol”

Carol (Haynes, 2015)

Carol (2015) Cinematography Analysis

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

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Under the Skin explained

House of Flying Daggers – Ending Notes

How to write scene transitions

Under the Skin - The Alien Gaze

Jonathan Glazer on Under the Skin

Expressionism

Edward Lachman Shares His Secrets For Shooting Todd Haynes’ ‘Carol’

Realism

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

Film Education resource: House of Flying Daggers

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Year 7 tutors/parents evening

Key Stage 3 practical sessions information - updated for September 2025

Cover Supervisor with art specialism

Hartismere High School 1999

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Cover Supervisor with PE specialism

Community news: Davey Tennis

STARLIGHT EXPRESS, London. Thursday 2nd October.

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