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Spotlight on Fandor: “Stroszek”
I wanted to pick a funny film for this week’s post-April Fool’s Fandor spotlight, and I don’t know what it says about me that I immediately gravitated to Werner Herzog’s demented, bleak Stroszek. Though set in the then-present 1970s, the film would make an eas...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Meek’s Cutoff”
Westerns as diverse as High Plains Drifter and Johnny Guitar have portrayed the Old West as a great conflagration—a hell of scorched land and inhospitable, forgotten souls. Meek’s Cutoff, on the other hand, presents the West as purgatory—a bleached-out void wh...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “The Marquise of O”
Eric Rohmer’s penchant for neorealist romantic comedies did not preclude the occasional aesthetic experiment. His Perceval le Gallois (1978), for example, remains one of the most startlingly experimental features of the 1970s, pushing realism into the realm of...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “35 Shots of Rum”
Claire Denis upends two overused household tropes with her most elegiac feature, 35 Shots of Rum, with her acute eye for humane detail. First, she avoids the depiction of domestic spaces as consumerist prisons that place traps on everyone (especially women) wi...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Green”
Men dominate the first scene of Green, in which journalist Sebastian (Lawrence Michael Levine) and his friend (Alex Ross Perry) pompously extol the virtues of Philip Roth, engaging in a game of one-upmanship to see who can concoct the most effusive praise. Yet...
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Love Streams: The Energy of “A Hard Days Night”
From the very first strum of the very first frame, the screen explodes. Not in the literal sense; there aren’t balls of fire or cinders filling up the frame, but there might as well be. No, instead, it’s a horde of fans, Beatlemaniacs, in hot pursuit of John, ...
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Spotlight on Fandor: Derek Jarman’s “Wittgenstein”
Wittgenstein introduces the Austrian-British philosopher as a boy (Clancy Chassay) sitting at a table, jotting down a note. “If people did not sometimes do silly things,” the lad says haltingly as he scribbles along, “nothing intelligent would ever get done.” ...
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Laura Poitras’s Post-9/11 Trilogy is Complete, and You Can Watch the First Two on Fandor
Last night, Laura Potras’s outstanding film Citizenfour took home the coveted prize for Best Documentary Feature. Undoubtedly one of the most exhilarating experiences one can have whilst watching a film, Poitras takes you inside the hotel room as she, journali...
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Spotlight on Fandor: Joanna Hogg’s “Exhibition”
The modernist house where artists D (Viv Albertine) and H (Liam Gillick) live in Joanna Hogg’s Exhibition recalls the politician’s retreat in Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer. Imposing metal and wall-length windows gives the impression of simultaneous transpa...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “The Deep Blue Sea”
Terence Davies’s films function so completely as works of personal memory that the director’s gift for vividly detailed period recreation turns history itself into mere context for a life lived. This is especially true of the autobiographical first phase of hi...
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