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A Hard-to-Find Cult Classic Is Finally Streaming — and Coming Back to Blu-Ray


Tarsem Singh’s 2006 epic The Fall is now streaming for the first time, and the director says a physical release is on the way, too.

To convince her, he tells her a story about a group of bandits traveling the world to battle a dastardly governor, with the characters played by people Alexandria sees around the hospital. Reality and fiction blend on screen, with Roy’s narration and Alexandria’s imaginings coming together into a mesmeric story about mythmaking, misunderstanding, and creativity as a reciprocal process. It wasn’t streaming or available for digital rental, so second-hand DVDs and Blu-rays regularly went for hundreds of dollars online and pirated copies passed through cinephile circles.

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