Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
29 Acacia Avenue
Camping Sauvage
Vacation!
South Seas Adventure
Hustling for Health
Punk Vacation
The Deadly Game
The Most Dangerous Game
Five Dolls for an August Moon
A Talking Picture
An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925
Babuba
Island Etude
Spotlight on Vacations!
It's time to get away. Everyone deserves a break and even if you're all out of PTO we've got your fix with a lineup of exotic trips and distant sojourns. But will it be a grand voyage or bad voyage? Vacations rarely go according to the brochure, so check out these advisories and plan your itinerary carefully; there's definitely some strange detours in store among all the scenic views. (And even a few dead-ends that might make you relieved to be comfortably at home—or just killing time at the office).
Selected Films
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Babuba
Rock Ross described this breezy, frenetic work as "an original mambo-rap creation myth of chaos of vacation." Indeed, the film begins with the bold, declarative text, "In the beginning there was only Chaos." Nocturnal grown-up party scenes alternate with children posing, play-acting and...Watch Movie
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An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925
A lyrical essay-film, AN INCOMPLETE HISTORY OF THE TRAVELOGUE captures the spirit of excess and adventure embodied by "The Great Gatsby" (published in 1925) in fragments from home movies of a wealthy American family on a Grand Tour of Europe and North Africa, illuminating...Watch Movie
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29 Acacia Avenue
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free...Watch Movie
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Camping Sauvage
Fresh out of prison, Blaise accepts a job as a sailing instructor at a summer camp run by his brother in law, Eddie. It's not long before he catches the eye of Camille, a bored and beautiful teenager. Haunted by violent nightmares, scorned by the other campers and reminded daily of his estranged...Watch Movie
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Five Dolls for an August Moon
FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON is Mario Bava's deliriously mod spin on an Agatha Christie-style whodunit. Bava was so closely associated with the horror genre that this twisting mystery was never released in the U.S. but it is deliciously entertaining all the same. A space age...Watch Movie
