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

The Brilliant Subversiveness of ‘Carol’s’ Conventional Ending

Carol (2015) Cinematography Analysis

Surface Matters

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

Cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC, On Shooting “Carol”

Carol (Haynes, 2015)

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Truffaut on the Auteur Theory

House of Flying Daggers - the value of women

House of Flying Daggers - sound

Under the Skin - featurette

Searching for Fallen Angels' Lost Lens

Under the Skin: Analysis of Film Form, Narrative and Ideology

The Absent Gaze: Navigating Feminist Cinematography on Notebook

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

Why Are Wong Kar-Wei Films so Dreamy?

Carol Featurette - Costume Design (2015) - Cate Blanchett, Kyle Chandler Drama HD

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My Examinations

Hartismere Family of Schools Art Exhibition - Somerleyton Hall

Summer 2024 Results

National Apprenticeship Week 2024

Design and Technology

Artificial intelligence and assessments

Year 5 Open afternoons

Design and Technology: Literacy

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Aesthetics Examinations GCE ZEN Film Studies Carol Test Careers Silent Film Oscars exhibition My Exams Vertigo MUBI Key Stage 4 Avant-Garde Screenplay Film4 Modernism NAW2024 The New York Times Hall

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