Indie film producer Ted Hope and former high-ranking Facebook
employee Chris Kelly have joined the board of a new website that
allows users to stream from a library of indie and art films. I
guess that’s a sign that people think this thing’s going to go
places. At first glance Fandor might seem like it is a redundant
service, given the existence of Netflix and Amazon, but upon
inspection it actually takes a number of innovative approaches
that make it an interesting new content provider to watch.  The
idea of making the online movie watching experience more social
isn’t a new one; people have been tossing it around for a while.
Netflix used to have more of a social platform built into it’s
site, but they could never really figure out what they wanted to
do with it, and ultimately stripped most of it away. It was just
announced that The Dark Knight will become the first movie
available to stream on Facebook, and I think the answer to
making online movie watching more social is right there. Netflix
shouldn’t ha