Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
A Time for Drunken Horses
S.O.S. Iceberg
Yellow Fangs
Careful
The Frozen North
Sirmilik
Sir Arne's Treasure
Playful Polar Bears
The Wildcat
Those Three
Zero Kelvin
Spotlight on Snowscapes
Wintery climates can be enchanting or treacherous, depending on how harsh the conditions are (and the thickness of your socks). Whether breathtakingly beautiful or dangerously bleak, frozen, ice-ravaged landscapes, or "Snowscapes" as we've dubbed them here, offer a striking backdrop to set a story. Survival sagas, whimsical winter wonderlands, sojourns through the coldest of colds; in each of these frigid films, the snowy scenery takes center stage, or at the very least plays a pivotal supporting role.
Selected Films
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A Winter Straw Ride
Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of children, the children throw snowballs at the riders and they and other persons begin to join in the fun. Then one of the carts tips...Watch Movie
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Careful
Guy Maddin's early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents (adult, child and animal!) must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. CAREFUL resembles a vintage melodrama from another planet, something that could only emerge from the...Watch Movie
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Those Three
Just one day from completing their military training, three conscripts desert their camp and escape into the frozen wilderness of Northern Iran. Travel through this mountainous, snowbound region is dangerous, but THOSE THREE opt for the independence it promises and must now forge their way...Watch Movie
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Samoyed Boy
Man's best friend proves even more valuable amidst the perils of the Frozen North in this beautiful animated Soviet adventure designed in the timeless style of woodcuts. Far from a simple folk tale, however, it goes on to show "boy" hero Chu shaking off his frigid village's primitive,...Watch Movie
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Sirmilik
As filmed by Zacharias Kunuk and scored by Andrew Whiteman, Dean Stone and Tanya Tagag, Sirmilik ("Place of Glaciers") National Park in Nunavut, in the Arctic Cordillera of Canada, is a place of mighty mountains blanketed by snow in winter and denuded brown rocks in summer. An Inuit man talks of...Watch Movie
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Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell
River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's hard to understate the amount of anxiety created by a Vice President who usurped authority for eight years to start wars and wreck the economy and then sidled off to Wyoming to be a retired "hero of...Watch Movie
