Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
December 7th
5 Broken Cameras
The Messenger
Our Town
The Scent of Green Papaya
Clay
As It Is in Heaven
Mt. Head
If a Tree Falls
Toyland
Dogtooth
A Star Is Born
Casanova '70
Marlene
Iraq in Fragments
Robinson Crusoe
Two Cars, One Night
Spotlight on the Oscars
When it comes to movies, the Academy Awards are the gold standard of cinematic honors—at least in the public consciousness. While critics like to downplay their importance, the fact remains that nothing quite matches an Oscar statuette as an industry seal of approval. Whether you look forward to Oscar night each year or dread it, we have a hunch you'll enjoy these past Oscar nominees and winners that we've specially selected from the Fandor library. Give into Oscar fever with this collection celebrating the Academy Awards through the years.
Selected Films
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The Messenger
Co-written by Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon, THE MESSENGER is a powerful and tender story about a returned war hero making his first steps toward a normal life. In his first leading role, Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq...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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Iraq in Fragments
A film about Iraq for those tired of films about Iraq, James Longley's award-winning documentary is a powerful combination of art film and political provocation. Embedded for over two years in three different regions, Longley goes beyond the usual summary-of-problems,...Watch Movie
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5 Broken Cameras
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2013 Academy Awards®, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is an extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism and a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching...Watch Movie
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Marlene
MARLENE is a portrait that brilliantly lifts the veil on a movie star of the brightest magnitude as she is fading into twilight. In September of 1982, Academy Award® winning actor and director Maximillian Schell (THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH) arrived in Paris for a series of on-camera interviews...Watch Movie
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Robinson Crusoe
The year is 1659. There is a shipwreck and the sole survivor, Robinson Crusoe, is washed ashore on a deserted tropical island. Suddenly faced with a hostile and unknown wilderness, he carves out a life for himself with his bare hands. Remarkably, he learns how to survive the maddening absence of...Watch Movie
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If a Tree Falls
On December 7th, 2005, federal agents conducted a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front, an organization the FBI has called America's "number one domestic terrorism threat." IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT is the remarkable...Watch Movie
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Our Town
OUR TOWN is the classic film based on Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a small New England town fraught with human drama, family conflict, marriage, life and death. Nominated for Best Picture, Best Leading Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Score and Best Original...Watch Movie
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A Star Is Born
Esther Blodgett (Janet Gaynor) comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom only to have them shattered by a ruthless, cold-hearted town without pity, where the chances of finding fame are one in a hundred thousand. Enter falling (and falling down drunk) movie star Norman Maine (Fredric March), whom...Watch Movie
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The Scent of Green Papaya
An Academy Award® nominee for "Best Foreign Language Film" and winner of the Camera d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, Trần Anh Hùng's feature-length debut recreates antebellum Vietnam through both the wide eyes of childhood and the deep blush of first love. In 1951...Watch Movie
