Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Fearless Directors
We all benefit from the filmmakers who strive to create in ways never rendered before. The history of film is a history of invention, of challenging the medium, iteration after iteration, all in an attempt to push, reframe and expand the cinematic art form. To bring reality and fantasy to our screens. Every crew member, writer, and actor involved in the process are instrumental to the final reveal, and this month we spotlight the captains of the ship: fearless directors who address controversial topics, craft unconventional movies, spark conversations, influence change, take risks, and do things differently.
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Selected Films
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Slacker
Richard Linklater's independent classic SLACKER presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas, among its social outcasts and misfits (predominantly the twenty-something set) using a series of linear vignettes. These characters who, in some manner, just don't fit into the establishment norms move...Watch Movie
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Fireworks Wednesday
From the two-time Academy Award® winning director of THE SALESMAN and A SEPARATION, Asghar Farhadi's FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY is a gripping, suspenseful drama – a story of marital intrigue and betrayal set against the backdrop of the Persian New Year. Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is...Watch Movie
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The Bigamist
This is the story of Harry Graham and his wife Eve who want to adopt a child. At the adoption agency they are interviewed by Mr. Jordan, who at first sight believes that they might be a perfect couple but he becomes concerned when Harry appears uneasy at the mention of background checks into...Watch Movie
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35 Shots of Rum
Widely hailed as one of the best films of 2009, the latest from the renowned director of BEAU TRAVAIL, Claire Denis’ sublime 35 SHOTS OF RUM is the moving story of a father and daughter whose close-knit, tender relationship is disrupted by a handsome young suitor. Sumptuously filmed and featuring...Watch Movie
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Jealousy
Louis Garrel stars in this enthralling tale of love, temptation and betrayal, directed by none other than his father, major post-New Wave auteur Philippe Garrel. After separating from his wife, Louis moves into a garret apartment with his fellow actor girlfriend Claudia as they struggle with...Watch Movie
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Right Now, Wrong Then
Quite by accident, film director Chunsu arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist, Yoon Heejung. She's never seen any of his films, but knows he's famous. They talk. And...Watch Movie
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Bowling for Columbine
Winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary, filmmaker Michael Moore's BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE takes a somewhat humorous and oft-times serious look at firearms abuse in the US. Traveling throughout the heartland of the country, Moore sets out to discover why Americans are so...Watch Movie
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Dogtooth
Graceful, enigmatic and often frightening, DOGTOOTH is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, propelling Yorgos Lanthimos to the forefront of contemporary cinema's most ambitious young filmmakers. In an effort to protect their three children...Watch Movie
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Wendy and Lucy
Named to over sixty "Best of 2008" lists (and even many "Best of the Decade" lists), WENDY AND LUCY solidified filmmaker Kelly Reichardt's reputation for films that are (according to the New York Times) "a touchstone of the new realism in American cinema." Drifting upwards to Alaska like a 21st...Watch Movie
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Fitzcarraldo
Werner Herzog's most epically-scaled film was inspired by an actual historical incident of stranger-than-fiction curiosity. In the late 1800s Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald had an entire steamship laboriously transported over a mountain in order to open a trade passage from rubber-rich...Watch Movie
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The Arbor
Instead of making a conventional documentary or adapting Andrea Dunbar's play "The Arbor" for the screen, director Clio Barnard has crafted a truly unique work that transcends genre and defies categorization. Following two years conducting audio interviews with Dunbar's family, friends and...Watch Movie
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The Trial
Adapted from the novel by Franz Kafka, THE TRIAL stars Anthony Perkins as Joseph K., an innocent victim charged with an unnamed crime. Masterfully directed by Orson Welles, who sets a riveting, maddening and brilliantly disturbing pace. While the source for THE TRIAL is described as "restored" it...Watch Movie
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Sins of the Fleshapoids
Along with Kenneth Anger's SCORPIO RISING and Andy Warhol's CHELSEA GIRLS, Mike Kuchar's SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS remains one of the most influential films of the 1960s American underground. Mike and his brother George (who co-wrote FLESHAPOIDS) were the godfathers of bargain...Watch Movie
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The White Meadows
The otherworldly salt islands of Iran’s Lake Urmia provide the fittingly surreal setting for director Mohammad Rasoulof’s mesmerizing fable. "I've come to listen to people’s heartaches and take away tears," says an old boatman as he rows among the gray waters and white salt...Watch Movie
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Santa sangre
In the 1970s, his legendary films EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN redefined movies as both art and entertainment while changing the face of cinema forever. And in 1989, visionary writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky returned with his modern masterpiece: It is the story of a young circus performer,...Watch Movie
