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Silent London’s Pamela Hutchinson looks back at the origins of silent cinema and contemplates the striking similarities to what we’re watching now on our phones and on the big screen…

 

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Truffaut on the Auteur Theory

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

Why Are Wong Kar-Wei Films so Dreamy?

Under the Skin - featurette

Conversations with CAROL

House of Flying Daggers - sound

Nick Broomfield interview

How to Talk Experimental Film: A User's Guide

Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag

Vertigo video essay - cinematic influence

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29_09_25 7yA Cover

Year 7 tutors/parents evening

Managing In-Game Spending

HERCULES THE MUSICAL- Years 7 & 8. London

Simon Pegg Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters |

Film Academy Shorts

STARLIGHT EXPRESS, London. Thursday 2nd October. Closed

WAR HORSE, Norwich Theatre Royal, Thursday 6th November 2025 Places available

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Examinations ZEN GCE Film Studies Silent Film Year 9 BFI Old Hollywood Events Parent Trips Film4 Theory Spike Lee Modernism Hitchcock Revision Shaun Of The Dead Editing British Buster Keaton

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