Friday, July 31, 2015

New Releases on Fandor

New Featured Release: De jueves a domingo, directed by Dominga Sotomayor Castillo

A family vacation, a road trip, a eulogy for a marriage and a coming-of-age story, all gorgeously wound into one journey by car across the Chilean landscape toward a mysterious plot of land. 

Go deeper with Keyframe articles

John Cassavetes' 'Unfashionable Thing'

BY STEVEN JENKINS
Cassavetes and the SFIFF have a long and warm history.

New Wave Musicals


BY DENNIS HARVEY
A video essay inspired by Starstruck's fashion and songs.
New on Fandor
 
Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1972)
dir. Jess Franco
 
Now on Fandor in conjunction with its home video release: Franco's horror-comic-inspired, perverse and unforgettable riff on a classic creation myth.
 
Quadrophenia (1979)
dir. Franc Roddam
 
From working-class London to the coast of Brighton, disaffected boy-gangs of Mods and Rockers face off to the pulsating and chaotic sounds of The Who. 
 
Hotel Polski (2009)
dir. Kama Veymont
 
A documentary that sheds light on mysterious historical event that occured in 1943 in occupied Warsaw: the story of a top-secret Jewish Embassy.
 
Jobriath A.D. (2013)
dir. Kieran Turner
 
Follow the meteoric rise and fall, tragic early death and enduring artistic influence of Jobriath, the erstwhile glam icon and first openly gay rock star. 
 
In Other News
 
Love and Filmmaking
 
Richard Leacock and Valérie Lalonde fell in love on film and kept going, and Kevin B. Lee's new video essay examines their romantically enhanced vérité.

Explore a collaboration
 
Happy Birthday, FIX!
 
Our latest feature commemorates the first anniversary of this growing initiative,introducing five FIXers with a diverse array of films available now.