Films
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Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by Marley’s ghost and visions that compress Dickens’s Christmas story into a few inventive minutes.
A rocket in the Moon’s eye: a voyage built from stage illusion.
The life of Christ unfolds through an extended series of theatrical scenes, from the Nativity to the Passion and Resurrection.
A fire brigade answers an alarm and attempts to rescue a woman and child from a burning room.
A compact chase film that turns railway tracks, cross-cut action, and direct address into early cinema momentum.
The capture of Rome is condensed into staged military action and a patriotic reconstruction of 20 September 1870.
Ben-Hur’s conflict with Roman power is compressed around spectacle, most famously an early screen chariot race.
A spinner’s legend is presented as a compact piece of visual folklore in an early film by Louis Feuillade.
Shakespeare’s lovers are condensed into a brief series of recognisable meetings, separations, and fatal misunderstandings.
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.
Lovers, fairies, and amateur actors cross paths in a forest where enchantment makes affection change direction without warning.
Oliver’s passage through poverty, exploitation, and criminal pressure is compressed into an early silent adaptation of Dickens’s novel.
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.
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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