Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Fatty's Suitless Days
Bill Cunningham New York
Blood and Black Lace
Quadrophenia
Pattern for Smartness
Technicolor Fashion Parade
Sunday in Brazzaville
Identity Crisis
Chasing Beauty
As Others See Us
Just Another Girl
What I Learned the Year I Made My Own Linen Underwear
The Emperor's New Clothes
Hipsters
Super Model
Fashion!
Think that fashion is only about pretty clothes? An expressive art form, an international industry, and an integral part of cinematic style, there are many different facets to fashion to consider. From documentaries that give insider glimpses into the industry (BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK, CHASING BEAUTY) to fiction films set in fashion world (BLOOD AND BLACK LACE, THEY WERE SO YOUNG), to kitschy vintage educational films (AS OTHERS SEE US) and movies whose use fashion to capture a particular moment in time (QUADROPHENIA, HIPSTERS), these films consider what it truly means to be well dressed in the movies.
Selected Films
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Bill Cunningham New York
"We all get dressed for Bill," says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The "Bill” in question is New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society...Watch Movie
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Blood and Black Lace
An unscrupulous business operating under the guise of a top fashion house becomes a murder scene after someone is pushed to the edge. The saga begins when a beautiful model is brutally murdered and her boyfriend is suspected of the crime. But is he guilty or is someone waiting...Watch Movie
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Chasing Beauty
A rare glimpse into the dark side of modeling, CHASING BEAUTY speaks with supermodels, photographers, agents and the like in a quest to answer one of the industry's most complex questions: What is beauty and is it worth the cost? Each year, thousands of hopefuls begin the pursuit of their...Watch Movie
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Sunday in Brazzaville
Forget about war and suffering and discover a different side of Congo. The sapeurs adhere to a subculture of high fashion. They may be surrounded by extreme poverty but as Yves Saint Laurent, President of the Sapeur Association, explains, they’re always dressed impeccably in...Watch Movie
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Just Another Girl
With the single-minded attention to detail of a teenager preparing for the prom (or an actress preparing for an award) but augmented by the boisterous camaraderie of friends, a group of San Francisco men pluck, primp and transform themselves into women for a performance (or...Watch Movie
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Hipsters
Moscow 1955. Stalin has been dead two years, but not even Khrushchev's thaw can prevent Komsomol shock troops from hounding hipsters (stilyagi), fans of American jazz, culture and fashion. The student Mels, a Komsomol member, meets Polya, a hipster, while conducting a raid on a hipster hangout....Watch Movie
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Fatty's Suitless Days
Fatty Arbuckle needs a suit to attend the ball. He snatches another man’s finery off the clothesline, squeezing himself into the jacket and improvising a cummerbund. What goes around comes around which, in Fatty’s case, means he’ll find himself at the ball without pants....Watch Movie
