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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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Surface Matters

Carol review: 'Cate Blanchett will slay you'

Carol (Haynes, 2015)

Cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC, On Shooting “Carol”

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

Carol (2015) Cinematography Analysis

The Brilliant Subversiveness of ‘Carol’s’ Conventional Ending

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Searching for Fallen Angels' Lost Lens

Expressionism

How to write scene transitions

Realism

Film Education resource: House of Flying Daggers

Under the Skin - featurette

“Carol” Up Close

Under the Skin - BFI review

The Absent Gaze: Navigating Feminist Cinematography on Notebook

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

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Teacher of Mathematics

Internships

Attack the Block Peep Hole

Teacher of English

Farrand on Film: GCSE Film Studies, Component 1: US Films

Summer 2026 Examinations

March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

Parents Evening :: Year 11

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