Films
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The 1910 heavyweight championship between Jack Johnson and former champion James J. Jeffries becomes both a sporting record and a document of racial conflict in the United States.
An early French drama by Louis Feuillade, made before the crime serials that would define his international reputation.
Ramona and Alessandro’s relationship is placed under pressure by dispossession and the racial hierarchy of nineteenth-century California.
The Roman legend of the abduction of the Sabine women is staged as an early Italian historical spectacle.
The American Civil War separates households and turns soldiers on opposing sides into figures caught between duty and mercy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antislavery novel is reduced to a short sequence of sale, separation, escape, and suffering.
A Native family’s domestic crisis is shaped by fear that a white husband will abandon his wife and child.
An independent young Irishwoman enters an aristocratic marriage without surrendering her appetite for choosing her own behaviour.
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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