Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Spotlight on the Sundance Film Festival
Launching this week, Spotlight is a new way to explore and discover great films on Fandor. Every two weeks, we'll be shining a light on a new crop of "thematic must sees" hand-picked by our curators. Make sure to bookmark Spotlight and visit often.
With the Sundance Film Festival just around the corner, we're Spotlighting a few seminal films that capture the spirit of the festival and a selection of our favorite films from festivals past.
Selected Films
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The Order of Myths
The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama, in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown, herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals. With unprecedented access, she traces...Watch Movie
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!Women Art Revolution
An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its...Watch Movie
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Poison
The second feature directed by Todd Haynes, POISON is a groundbreaking American independent film and was the most fervently debated film of the 1990s as well as a trailblazing landmark of queer cinema. A work of immense visual invention, Haynes' spectacular follow-up to his legendary SUPERSTAR:...Watch Movie
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Flotsam/Jetsam
A grainy black-and-white adventure on the high seas turns into something else entirely in this typically idiosyncratic short from David and Nathan Zellner, their very first to appear at the Sundance Film Festival. Adrift in the open water, a man clings to some floating suitcases (along with a...Watch Movie
