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The Falling

March 2017

  • Left to right: Ana Lily Amirpour, Julia Ducournau, Alice Lowe, Jennifer Kent and Karyn Kusama. Photographs by Getty, WireImage, Aurelie Lamachere/Rex, Linda Nylind for the Observer

    The female directors bringing new blood to horror films

    Women are sinking their teeth ever deeper into horror. We chart their rise and talk to directors Ana Lily Amirpour, Julia Ducournau and Karyn Kusama

October 2015

  • The 'splurge guns' take their toll in Alan Parker's  Bugsy Malone.

    Cinema now
    Carol Morley interview: ‘Bugsy Malone reminds me of my dad’

    The director of The Falling recalls a precious cinema-going memory

September 2015

  • Carol Morley

    7 Miles Out review – heartache and humour

  • First class trip ... Taxi to Tehran

    Film blog
    The best films of 2015 so far – UK

August 2015

  • 'Cinderella' Film - 2015

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Cinderella, A Little Chaos, Queen and Country, Love Me Like You Do, Ride, Futuro Beach and more – review

    Cate Blanchett gives a wicked masterclass in scene stealing, Alan Rickman’s period romance fails to ignite, and John Boorman gets nostalgic in Queen and Country

April 2015

  • A trader wears an Iron Man mask on the day that cast members of the film Avengers: Age of Ultron visit the stock exchange in New York.

    Box office analysis: UK
    Avengers: Age of Ultron beats Fifty Shades for best UK opening since Skyfall

  • Schoolgirl hysteria? A scene from Carol Morley’s The Falling.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    The Falling review – swoon with a view

  • Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in Avengers: Age Of Ultron

    The Guardian Film Show
    The Guardian Film Show: The Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Falling, Stonehearst Asylum and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence - audio

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    The Guardian film show
    The Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Falling, Stonehearst Asylum and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence: the Guardian film show – video review

  • The Falling - video review

  • The Falling review – a fascinating, dreamlike tale of teenage transgression

  • Carol Morley and Tracey Thorn: "Girls' schools? They’re a hotpot of urges"

March 2015

  • Carol Morley, photographed by Paul Stuart for the Observer New Review in London, March 2015.

    Carol Morley: ‘Maxine Peake is my muse’

    Film-maker Carol Morley talks about making The Falling, her friendship with Maxine Peake – and the Madchester days
  • the falling circle

    Carol Morley: ‘Mass hysteria is a powerful group activity’

    Carol Morley explains how her long fascination with mass psychogenic illness led to her film The Falling, the story of a fainting epidemic at a girls’ school
  • Tracey Thorn

    Listen up
    Listen to a track from Tracey Thorn's Songs from The Falling score

    The Everything But the Girl singer releases an EP of music from Carol Morley’s five-star film as part of Record Store Day 2015

January 2015

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    The Falling: watch the world exclusive trailer for Carol Morley's five-star new film – video

    For her follow-up to Dreams of a Life, Carol Morley creates a haunting and emotionally charged tale of friendship, sex and hysteria in a 1960s girls' school, starring Game of Thrones actor Maisie Williams alongside newcomer Florence Pugh. Get a world-exclusive first look at one of the British films of the year, released on 24 April

October 2014

  • The Falling film still

    First look review
    The Falling review – Carol Morley's masterly followup to Dreams of a Life

    Peter Bradshaw: Director Carol Morley has come up with another brilliant and very distinctive feature, about an epidemic of fainting that grips a girls school in the 1960s
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