EDITORIAL HUB FOR CINEPHILES
Film Directories
Looking for the genre specific? The nuanced? Take a spin through our Film Directories – this is where we dive deep and provide curation for everything from Horror to Kung Fu.
The Green Prince (2014)
Set against the chaotic backdrop of recent events in the Middle East, Nadav Schirman’s THE GREEN PRINCE retraces the details of a highly unprecedented partnership …
Penance (2012)
Japanese master of suspense Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s eerie, intense psychological thriller PENANCE unfolds on a sleepy small town playground, when a mysterious stranger approaches a group …
How Home Movies Capture the Beauty of the Everyday
You’ve seen them before — a sentimental moment where a character watches an old home movie of their loved ones. There’s something strikingly artificial about …
The New Canon: ‘City of God’
The city of God famously starts with a chicken making a desperate getaway from a cooking pot. The rapid-fire editing and percussive, intense action set …
Why We Laugh — Part 4
Twenty years ago a team of psychologists revolutionized the way that we see ourselves. It all began with an experiment to see if mammals, like …
How Many Genres Are There In ‘Kill Bill’?
We at Fandor love categorizing films by genre. Often it’s an easy task — The Searchers is definitely a Western, Singin’ in the Rain is …
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
Here’s another Roger Corman classic from the golden age of Drive-In schlock! In this spoof of horror and spy thrillers, American gangster Renzo Capetto (Anthony …
The Tribe (2014)
Winner of multiple 2014 Cannes Film Festival Awards (including the coveted Critics’ Week Grand Prix), Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe is an undeniably original and intense …
Is ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ a Feminist Film?
Susan Seidelman’s classic mistaken identity comedy, Desperately Seeking Susan, is a charming time capsule of 1980s NYC, and quite arguably the best movie Madonna ever …
The Wild Sounds of Sam Raimi
When Sam Raimi was honored with the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Filmmaker Award 2016, he acknowledged the importance of sound in his work: “My career …
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