Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
The Gleaners and I
My Country, My Country
The Joy of Life
Manufactured Landscapes
Winnie Wright, Age 11
The Decline of Western Civilization
History Lessons
The Line King
The Last Season
Ornette: Made in America
Dreams of a Life
Doc Women
In celebration of Women's History month, we're highlighting a handful of documentaries from some of the most dynamic filmmakers in the industry.
Selected Films
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Agnes Varda: From Here to There
The much-anticipated follow up to Agnes Varda's masterful THE BEACHES OF AGNES, FROM HERE TO THERE is a five-part documentary series that chronicles the indefatigable filmmaker's travels around the world, meeting friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the...Watch Movie
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The Joy of Life
In THE JOY OF LIFE it becomes immediately clear that landscapes, like people, are vulnerable. As long, meditative shots of San Francisco fill the screen, a voice-over supplies the voluptuously remembered trysts and crushes and lusts of a butch seeking love (told in the sexily pebbled voice of...Watch Movie
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Manufactured Landscapes
Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of "manufactured landscapes" (quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams), Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he...Watch Movie
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Winnie Wright, Age 11
Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher, lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. Her family struggles with racism, inflation and a threatened strike, as Winnie learns what it means to grow up white, working class and female.Watch Movie
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Be Here to Love Me
As a musician, Townes Van Zandt was legendary, perhaps one of the greatest who ever lived, inspiring a range of artists from Bob Dylan to Norah Jones to Steve Earle. As a man, a husband and a father his life was as tragic as the songs he wrote. Van Zandt was an enigma to his...Watch Movie
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Ornette: Made in America
ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA captures Ornette Coleman's evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1983 as a famed performer and composer, documentary footage, dramatic scenes and some of the first music video-style segments ever made chronicle his...Watch Movie
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Dreams of a Life
Nobody noticed when thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent died in her apartment in North London in 2003. Three years later when her skeleton was discovered, her heating and television were still on. Who was Joyce Vincent and how could her death have gone unnoticed for so long?...Watch Movie
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Kings Point
Director Sari Gilman tells the stories of five seniors living in a typical American retirement resort, men and women who came to Florida decades ago with their spouses by their sides and their health intact, and now find themselves grappling with love, loss and the universal desire for human...Watch Movie
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!Women Art Revolution
An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its...Watch Movie
