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How Vertigo foreshadowed ‘catfishing’, AI and #MeToo

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Under the Skin - The Alien Gaze

Cinema and modernism

The Modern Silent

Buster Keaton - Silent Film Era

Naming, and Defining, Avant-Garde or Experimental Film

Jonathan Glazer on Under the Skin

Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag

Why Are Wong Kar-Wei Films so Dreamy?

House of Flying Daggers - sound

From Vertigo to Psycho, how Hitchcock changed the role of architecture in film

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Sixth Form College Open Evening

The Wave: summary

The Wave: Cinema's most terrifying lesson

Examinations

The Wave: Tim becomes Wenger's bodyguard (clip 6 of 9)

Parents Evening :: Year 12

The Wave: the first autocracy lesson, part 1 (clip 2 of 9)

The Wave: Autocracy clip part 2 (clip 3 of 9)

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