Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Hiroshima
Leviathan
La France
Song at Midnight
Royal Wedding
Hipsters
Blank Generation
Mozart in Love
My Degeneration
The Point
Zou Zou
Yard Work is Hard Work
100% Arabica
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
The Wind Journeys
We are Mari Pepa
Sound Visions
Melancholy. Heartbreak. Gangfight. All perfectly acceptable reasons to sing and dance, right? Well, maybe if you live in a cliché (yet utterly fantastic) musical. Or...it might just be the only thing you know how to do.
You won't find played-out documentaries here, or conventional biopics of stars. Most of them aren't even regarded as traditional song-and-dance musicals.
They're narratives grounded in rhythm, moving to a certain melody, driven by a living beat.
Selected Films
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Blank Generation
A classic punk rock movie from 1980 starring Richard Hell, illustrating the end of the first wave of New York City punk rock better than any documentary. Nada (Carole Bouquet), a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and...Watch Movie
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My Degeneration
Evoking the band-in-the-making masterpieces LADIES & GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS and BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, MY DEGENERATION is the story of three young women and their nascent band, Bunny Love. The Psychotronic Video Guide illustrates the basic plot: "The blonde bass player narrates,...Watch Movie
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We are Mari Pepa
Alex is one of four Guadalajara best mates who comprise the titular garage-punk band. Never mind that they can barely play their instruments or that they only have one song (albeit a great one, a joyfully obscene ode to "Natasha" whose rare quotable line runs, "I'm never going...Watch Movie
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100% Arabica
In a housing project located on the outskirts of Paris renamed "100% Arabica" by its inhabitants, African immigrants live side by side. The residents are united by their struggle for recognition in a society where immigrants are often regarded as second class citizens. In a world of exiles,...Watch Movie
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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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Mozart in Love
Mark Rappaport's second feature film (amongst a remarkable string of off-beat, experimental narratives that runs from CASUAL RELATIONS to CHAIN LETTERS) takes off from the deliberate anachronism of using modern props, performance styles and attitudes to evoke the romantic entanglements of the...Watch Movie
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Royal Wedding
This delightful Technicolor MGM musical was a special project for Fred Astaire as it was somewhat based on his early stage partnership with sister Adele. It was also director Stanley Donen's only musical between the classics ON THE TOWN and SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (both co-directed with star Gene...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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The Point
Directed and animated by Academy Award®-winner Fred Wolf, with story and songs written by Grammy Award®-winner Harry Nilsson, narrated by Ringo Starr and including many colorful characters voiced by a bevy of talented actors, THE POINT is an enchanting fable for the whole family to enjoy! Years...Watch Movie
