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Spotlight on Fandor: This Week’s Picks
Fandor’s ever-increasing selection of well-curated films can be daunting for new and long-time subscribers alike, especially given the obscurity of most of the selections. With that in mind, we select five films every week available for streaming to promote fo...
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Spotlight on Fandor: This Week’s Picks
Fandor’s ever-increasing selection of well-curated films can be daunting for new and long-time subscribers alike, especially given the obscurity of most of the selections. With that in mind, we select five films every week available for streaming to promote fo...
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Spotlight on Fandor: This Week’s Picks
Fandor’s ever-increasing selection of well-curated films can be daunting for new and long-time subscribers alike, especially given the obscurity of most of the selections. With that in mind, we select five films every week available for streaming to promote fo...
Read more →
Spotlight on Fandor: This Week’s Picks
Fandor’s ever-increasing selection of well-curated films can be daunting for new and long-time subscribers alike, especially given the obscurity of most of the selections. With that in mind, we select five films every week available for streaming to promote fo...
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Spotlight on Fandor: This Week’s Top Picks
Fandor’s ever-increasing selection of well-curated films can be daunting for new and long-time subscribers alike, especially given the obscurity of most of the selections. With that in mind, we select five films every week available for streaming to promote fo...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Miami Connection”
To reword Leo Tolstoy, sometimes it feels as if all good movies (at least as they are typically defined by the mainstream) are all alike. But bad films, truly bad, haphazard, baffling films, are bad in their own special way. A pall of irony hangs over the embr...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Millennium Mambo”
The opening Steadicam shot of Millennium Mambo--of a young woman, Vicky (Shu Qi) skipping down a fluorescent-lit tunnel--is so distorted by slow-motion and a nostalgic voiceover that the scene comes to resemble a journey through a wormhole, a movement in dista...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Stop Making Sense”
For all its formal inventiveness and the quality of its subject, the band Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense may be the best concert film of all time because it actually tells a story. It begins with art rock overlord David Byrne wandering out alone on a stage t...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Mikey and Nicky”
Mikey and Nicky certainly resembles a New Hollywood-era feature, with its time-worn earthen colors, drab lighting, and fidgety cameras. But as with the rest of Elaine May’s criminally small filmography, the film’s sense of humor is shockingly modern. Indeed, t...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Instrument”
If Fugazi were the defining post-hardcore band, collecting the shards of numerous dead-end underground sub-movements back into a unified contradiction of melody and abrasion, then Jem Cohen’s Instrument is the defining post-hardcore film. Visible film strips a...
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