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All posts by Ashley Clark
Spotlight on Fandor: “Ballast” and “Our Children”
It’s best to clarify upfront that neither of this week’s Fandor picks are, as we like to say back in England, “a barrel of laughs.” Rather, Lance Hammer’s Ballast and Joachim Lafosse’s Our Children are both somber, sensitive and grueling tales of extreme depre...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty” and “Memphis”
Existential crises have long proved fertile ground for compelling cinema, and two recent Sundance breakthroughs—Terence Nance’s An Oversimplification of her Beauty and Tim Sutton’s Memphis—adopt refreshingly original approaches to illuminating the dilemmas of ...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Tongues Untied”
However one interprets Kodak’s co-option of gay black dads Kordale Anthony and Kaleb Lewis for a recent advertising campaign, it’s nonetheless heartening to see open, honest depictions of black male homosexuality explored in a prominent space. This subject mat...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Dark Days”
“I’m in the food business now,” Dark Days director Marc Singer told an interviewer in 2011. “I have a company that sells very nice garnishes—garlic, cherries, onions, anything that you’d find in an alcoholic drink.” Aside from the rather hair-raising suggestio...
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