Films
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Shakespeare’s courtship battle is reduced to a brisk contest of gesture, resistance, and coercive domestic order.
A fourteen-minute social drama that cuts between the price of bread, labour in the fields, and speculation at the top.
A privileged man is confronted with the consequences of abandoning a woman when her later suffering becomes impossible for him to ignore.
A ruler discovers a secret affair and turns a hidden room into an instrument of punishment.
Ramona and Alessandro’s relationship is placed under pressure by dispossession and the racial hierarchy of nineteenth-century California.
The American Civil War separates households and turns soldiers on opposing sides into figures caught between duty and mercy.
An independent young Irishwoman enters an aristocratic marriage without surrendering her appetite for choosing her own behaviour.
Two sisters are trapped in a house while a threat remains hidden behind a wall and help races towards them.
Two white families are used to present the American Civil War and Reconstruction through a violently racist mythology that celebrates the Ku Klux Klan.
Four stories from different eras are intercut to argue that persecution repeats whenever moral certainty becomes a weapon.
An abused girl in London finds temporary refuge with a Chinese immigrant whose tenderness cannot protect either of them from the violence outside.
A displaced family in post-war Germany tries to secure food, work, shelter, and a future amid inflation and scarcity.
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Read a film closely
Character companions, film comparisons and a closer look at particular scenes.
- Seven Samurai
Who are the seven samurai?
Names, actors and roles to keep the seven apart.
- The Wages of Fear
The original, Sorcerer, or the remake?
Three films compared before you choose.
- Breathless
What disappears in a jump cut?
A diagram of the time Godard leaves out.
- Wild Strawberries
What do the dreams mean?
Trace the clocks, mirror and final scene.
After watching · Spoilers - Persona
Why hear the same speech twice?
Follow who speaks and whose face fills the frame.
After watching · Spoilers - Bicycle Thieves
What happens at the end?
The final encounter, seen through father and son.
After watching · Spoilers