Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Beautiful Losers
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Chlorophyl
Little Brown Boy
King's Gym
My Josephine
Everyone Else
The Forest for the Trees
Polytechnique
Rated R for Nudity
Lumumba
Applause
Home
Wendy and Lucy
Poppy Shakespeare
Dogtooth
Tim
BMX Bandits
Any Day Now
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2017 Oscar® Nominees
And the Oscar® goes to… well, we won’t know until Oscar® Sunday, February 26, 2017, when the 89th Academy Awards® will screen and the winners are revealed. Nominees, winners, we don't care; so long as you're most popular on the runway. This year we are fortunate to have some Fandor family in the race! These individuals share a home on Fandor and we are continually impressed by them and champion their endeavors.
We are proud to share with you the early work of Damien Chazelle, Barry Jenkins, Denis Villeneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Mel Gibson, Michelle Williams, Nicole Kidman, Naomie Harris, Raoul Peck, Martin Zandvliet, Maren Ade, Justin Hurwitz, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mike Mills and others. We wish you all good luck!
We are proud to share with you the early work of Damien Chazelle, Barry Jenkins, Denis Villeneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Mel Gibson, Michelle Williams, Nicole Kidman, Naomie Harris, Raoul Peck, Martin Zandvliet, Maren Ade, Justin Hurwitz, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mike Mills and others. We wish you all good luck!
Selected Films
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Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
A full-fledged song-and-dance, tap-and-jazz musical, Damien Chazelle’s GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH boldly recasts the 1940s MGM musical tradition in a gritty, verite style, resulting in an exuberant celebration of romance and music and one of the most critically-acclaimed...Watch Movie
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Chlorophyl
Award-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins returned to his hometown of Miami for this mood-drenched look at love and alienation, created for the city’s Borscht Film Festival. Adrift in the gleaming white void of a new apartment, a young woman talks to an absent lover on the phone; later, she attends a...Watch Movie
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Little Brown Boy
For his follow-up to MY JOSEPHINE, Barry Jenkins turned to an issue closer to his Florida home in the early 2000s: the spate of young black boys being tried as adults for the gunshot deaths of other kids. But this is no crime drama. There is no trial in this short film and the...Watch Movie
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King's Gym
Oakland, California's "boxing gym of champions" is showcased here, its historic walls lined with posters for matches boasting past regulars from George Foreman and Joe Frazier to Gina Guidi. Though the crowded environ may be one of sweaty, noisy machismo, director Barry Jenkins' surprisingly...Watch Movie
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My Josephine
The cultural diversity of his subjects, the intimacy of his direction and the formal beauty of his filmmaking are present in Barry Jenkins' very first film, a short he made while a student at Florida State University. It was made after the events of September 11, 2001, and inspired by a sign he...Watch Movie
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Everyone Else
A young couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink while vacationing in the Mediterranean in this smart, sexy drama from acclaimed new filmmaker Maren Ade. On the surface, Chris and Gitti appear blissfully in love while enjoying the sun and sand of Sardinia. But the more time they spend...Watch Movie
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Rated R for Nudity
Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve takes a playful stab at mass hypnosis. Celebrating the mesmerizing power of movies, he offers mischievous glimpses into a subconscious world inhabited by Ingmar Bergman, Steven Spielberg and Bo Derek. The audacious creative force behind POLYTECHNIQUE...Watch Movie
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Lumumba
Made in the tradition of such true-life political thrillers as MALCOLM X and JFK, Raoul Peck’s award-winning epic dramatizes the rise and fall of legendary African leader Patrice Lumumba. When the Congo declared its independence from Belgium in 1960, the 36-year-old Lumumba became the first Prime...Watch Movie
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Home
Switzerland's official entry for "Best Foreign Language Film" at the 82nd Academy Awards®, HOME is a mesmerizing fable of modern family life starring internationally renowned actress Isabelle Huppert. Huppert plays Marthe, a happy-go-lucky mother whose family enjoys an idyllic existence in their...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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Poppy Shakespeare
Adapted from the best-selling novel by author Clare Allan, this gripping drama follows the unlikely friendship between a psychiatric patient who lives to sponge off the system, and the newly arrived patient who causes her to question everything she ever thought she knew. N has...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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BMX Bandits
Future Academy Award®-winner Nicole Kidman made her movie debut at sixteen years old as the pouffy-haired star of this action/comedy about a cache of stolen walkie-talkies, three BMX-riding friends and the ruthless bank robbers who will pursue them through every graveyard, shopping mall,...Watch Movie
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Any Day Now
Winner of ten Audience Awards at film festivals around the country and starring the amazing Alan Cumming, ANY DAY NOW is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the loving family he's...Watch Movie
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for two hundred dollars and became best friends with Andy...Watch Movie
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Beautiful Losers
BEAUTIFUL LOSERS celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation. In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of like-minded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of...Watch Movie
