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{{Infobox film<br />
| image = Fall ver2.jpg<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = Theatrical release poster<br />
| director = [[Tarsem Singh|Tarsem]]<br />
| screenplay = {{Plainlist|<br />
* [[Dan Gilroy]]<br />
* Nico Soultanakis<br />
* Tarsem<br />
}}<br />
| based_on = {{based_on|''[[Yo Ho Ho]]''|[[Valeri Petrov]]|[[Zako Heskiya]]}}<br />
| producer = Tarsem<br />
| starring = {{Plainlist|<br />
* [[Lee Pace]]<br />
* Catinca Untaru<br />
* [[Justine Waddell]]<br />
}}<br />
| cinematography = [[Colin Watkinson]]<br />
| editing = Robert Duffy<br />
| music = [[Krishna Levy]]<br />
| studio = {{Plainlist|<br />
* Googly Films<ref name="Moviefone">{{cite web |title=The Fall (2008) - Movie |url=https://www.moviefone.com/movie/the-fall/27281/main/ |website=[[Moviefone]] |access-date=28 February 2025}}</ref><br />
* [[RadicalMedia]]<ref name="Moviefone"/><br />
* [[Absolute Entertainment]]<ref name="Moviefone"/><br />
* Tree Top Films<ref name="Moviefone"/><br />
* Deep Films<ref name="Moviefone"/><br />
}}<br />
| distributor = {{Plainlist|<br />
* [[Roadside Attractions]] (United States)<br />
* [[Momentum Pictures]] (United Kingdom)<br />
* [[Summit Entertainment]] (International)<br />
}}<br />
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2006|9|9|[[Toronto International Film Festival|TIFF]]|2008|5|30|United States|2008|10|3|United Kingdom}}<br />
| runtime = 117 minutes<br />
| country = {{Plainlist|<br />
* India<ref name="Filmaffinity">{{cite web |title=The Fall (2006) |url=https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film698185.html |website=[[Filmaffinity]] |access-date=28 February 2025}}</ref><br />
* United States<ref name="Filmaffinity"/><br />
* United Kingdom<ref name="Filmaffinity"/><br />
}}<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget = $30 million<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/brilliant-box-office-bombs/the-fall/ |title=The Fall |work=[[Telegraph (UK)]] |date=18 April 2017 |access-date=April 28, 2020}}</ref><br />
| gross = $3.7 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fall08.htm|title=The Fall|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=16 October 2015}}</ref><br />
}}<br />
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'''''The Fall''''' is a 2006 [[Adventure film|adventure]] [[fantasy film]] produced, co-written, and directed by [[Tarsem Singh]], and starring [[Lee Pace]], Catinca Untaru, and [[Justine Waddell]]. It is based on the 1981 [[Cinema of Bulgaria|Bulgarian film]] ''[[Yo Ho Ho]]'' written by [[Valeri Petrov]] and directed by [[Zako Heskiya]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Garrett |first=Daniel |date=September 2008 |title=Liberations of Mind, Spirit, and Vision: The Fall by Tarsem Singh |url=https://offscreen.com/view/fall_tarsem |magazine=Offscreen |volume=12 |issue=9}}</ref> The film centers on a young girl (Untaru) who meets a stuntman (Pace) at the hospital they are both staying at, with the latter telling her a fantastic tale involving a group of heroes seeking revenge on an evil ruler.<br />
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Presented by [[David Fincher]] and [[Spike Jonze]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Goldstein |first=Patrick |date=26 June 2007 |title=A 'Fall' no one wants to take |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-26-et-goldstein26-story.html |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> the film premiered at the 2006 [[Toronto International Film Festival]], before being released in the United States on 9 May 2008, and the United Kingdom on 3 October 2008. In the years since its release, the film had become noteworthy for its lack of distribution and absence from any streaming platforms, with Singh having worked to find distributors to re-release the film worldwide.<ref name=collider>{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/the-fall-4k-release-tarsem-singh-comments/|website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]]|access-date=16 April 2024 |title='The Fall' 4K UHD is Coming Soon if Tarsem Singh Has His Way &#91;Exclusive&#93; |date=25 August 2023 }}</ref> In July 2024, streaming service [[Mubi (streaming service)|Mubi]] announced their acquisition of select distribution rights to a 4K restoration of the film, which premiered at the [[Locarno Film Festival]] before streaming on Mubi on 27 September 2024.<ref name=mubi/><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
In 1920's [[Los Angeles]], [[Stunt performer|stuntman]] Roy Walker is hospitalized, bedridden and [[Paraplegia|paraplegic]] (possibly permanently) after jumping off a bridge for a stunt for a film. He meets Alexandria, a young [[Romania]]n-born patient in the hospital who is recovering from a broken arm, and tells her a story about her namesake, [[Alexander the Great]]. Roy promises to tell her an epic tale if she returns the next day.<br />
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The next morning, as Roy spins his tale of fantasy, Alexandria's imagination brings his characters to life. Roy's tale is about five heroes: a silent [[India]]n warrior, a bow and arrow-wielding ex-[[slave]] named [[Ota Benga|Otta Benga]], Italian explosives expert Luigi, [[Charles Darwin]] alongside a pet monkey named [[Alfred Russel Wallace|Wallace]], and a masked swashbuckling bandit. The evil ruler Governor Odious has committed an offense against each of the five, and they all seek revenge. They are later joined by a sixth hero, a [[Mysticism|mystic]].<br />
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Alexandria vividly imagines people around her appearing as the characters in Roy's story. Although Roy develops affection for Alexandria, he has an ulterior motive: to trick her into stealing [[morphine]] from the hospital pharmacy. He intends to use the morphine to die by [[suicide]] because the woman he loves has left him for the actor for whom he provided the stunt footage. However, Alexandria brings him only three pills; she threw away the rest, having mistaken the "E" Roy wrote in "morphine" for a "3". The story becomes a collaborative tale to which Alexandria also contributes. The masked bandit, whom Roy intended to represent Alexandria's late father, becomes Roy, and Alexandria is his daughter.<br />
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Roy talks Alexandria into stealing a bottle of pills locked in a fellow patient's cabinet, and then downs the contents. As he falls asleep he attempts to finish the story with the Bandit finding love, and he tells Alexandria not to return the next day. She does not obey, and is devastated to see a dead patient being taken away; however, the deceased is Roy's elderly, [[Dentures|denture]]-wearing roommate. Roy awakens and lashes out when he realizes the pills were [[placebo]]s. Alexandria, desperate to help Roy, sneaks out of bed to the pharmacy. She climbs onto the cabinet but loses her footing, falls, and sustains a severe head injury. She receives surgery, after which she is visited by Roy, who confesses his deception. He pleads with Alexandria to ask someone else to end the story, but she insists on hearing Roy's ending.<br />
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Roy reluctantly and drunkenly continues the story. The heroes are betrayed and die one by one, and it seems that Governor Odious will be triumphant. Alexandria becomes increasingly upset, but Roy insists that it is his story to tell and the Bandit is a coward. She declares that it is hers too and begs Roy to let the Bandit live. Roy finally agrees, and the epic tale comes to an end; Governor Odious lays dying and the Bandit and his daughter are alive and together. In a final twist, Roy confronts the character representing his ex-girlfriend. She says the story's pain and suffering were all part of a "test" of the Bandit's love for her. The Bandit rejects her and her manipulations at last.<br />
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With the story complete, Roy and Alexandria, along with the patients and staff of the hospital, watch the finished film that Roy appeared in, a [[Western film|Western]] featuring bandits, a Native American man, and Roy's ex-girlfriend. The crowd is delighted, but Roy's smile is broken in trepidation as the scene with his fateful jump draws near.<br />
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Alexandria's arm eventually heals and she returns to the orange orchard where her family works. Her voice-over reveals that she believes Roy has recovered and is now back at work again. A montage of cuts from several of [[silent film]]s' greatest and most dangerous stunts plays; she imagines all the stuntmen to be Roy.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
* [[Lee Pace]] as Roy Walker / Black Bandit<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/movies/11kehr.html|title=Special Effects From the Real World|work=The New York Times|date=11 May 2008|first=Dave|last=Kehr|access-date=16 October 2015}}</ref><br />
* Catinca Untaru as Alexandria / Bandit's daughter<br />
* [[Justine Waddell]] as Nurse Evelyn / Sister Evelyn<br />
* [[Daniel Caltagirone]] as Sinclair / Governor Odious<br />
* Marcus Wesley as Ice delivery man / Otta Benga<br />
* [[The Commandant|Robin Smith]] as One-legged actor / Luigi <br />
* [[Jeetu Verma]] as Orange picker / Indian<br />
* Kim Uylenbroek as Doctor / [[Alexander the Great]]<br />
* [[Leo Bill]] as Orderly / [[Charles Darwin]]<br />
* [[Emil Hoștină]] as Alexandria's father / Blue Bandit<br />
* [[Julian Bleach]] as Mystic / Orange picker<br />
* Ronald France as Otto (the "old man")<br />
* [[Sean Gilder]] as Walt Purdy<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
''The Fall'' is a [[self-reflexive]] film that deals primarily with the concept of [[storytelling]]. Roy Walker tells a story to Alexandria, who imagines it, but there is a discontinuity between what he describes and how she sees it. Each character brings their own life into their experiences of the story; Roy takes inspiration from the film that he was working on before his accident, and Alexandria populates his story with familiar sights from her own life. The intimidating X-Ray operator becomes an enemy soldier; the 'Indian' is seen by her as a South Asian immigrant co-worker from the orange groves, while Roy's dialogue makes it clear to the audience that he meant 'Indian' to mean a Native American man from the Western film he was involved in.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stevens |first1=Charlotte |title=Telling the (Wrong) Story: The disintegration of transcultural communication and narrative in The Fall |journal=Cineaction |date=2010 |issue=80 |pages=30–37 }}</ref><br />
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''The Fall'' is also grounded in the film's historical period. Roy took inspiration for his story's bandits from early 20th century news; the controversy over credit for Charles Darwin's ideas in ''[[On the Origin of Species]]'' between Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, as well as [[Ota Benga]]'s imprisonment in the [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri]] were prominent news stories around the time period of the film's setting.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Singh |first1=Tarsem |title=The Fall - Tarsem's Visual Companion - Part 1: The Director on His Astonishing Imagery |url=https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/exclusive-the-fall-tarsems-visual-companion-part-1/ |access-date=30 September 2018 |website=Rotten Tomatoes}}</ref><br />
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== Production ==<br />
[[Tarsem Singh|Tarsem]] largely financed the film with his own funds, and paid members of the cast and crew on an equal basis rather than in more typical Hollywood fashion. The film was made over a period of four years and incorporates footage shot in 24 countries,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goldstein |first=Patrick |date=2007-06-26 |title=A 'Fall' no one wants to take |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-26-et-goldstein26-story.html |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> including India, Indonesia (Bali), Italy, France, Spain, Namibia, and China (PRC). Singh stressed the importance of on-location filming and lack of visual effects, as he found that modern techniques would not age well in comparison. He only took advertising jobs in places that he wanted to do location scouting for, and flew cast members to shoot scenes for the film using the same crew as he did for commercials.<ref>{{cite news |title=How Tarsem Singh's obsession became a movie |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2008/05/30/tarsem |access-date=30 September 2018 |work=Minnesota Public Radio News |date=30 May 2008}}</ref> When shooting scenes of the blue city in [[Jodhpur]], Tarsem provided locals with blue paint to refresh the paint on their houses.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ebert |first1=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=3 June 2008 |title=Tarsem and the legend of "The Fall" |work=[[RogerEbert.com]] |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/tarsem-and-the-legend-of-the-fall |access-date=30 September 2018}}</ref> This alternative to post-production effects resulted in the vibrant blue of the city in the film. Another location, the contemporary South African mental hospital which represents an early 20th-century Los Angeles hospital (the principal setting throughout the film) remained operational (in a separate wing) during filming.<ref name=commentary /><br />
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Tarsem revealed in a 2024 interview that [[Elle Fanning]] was considered to play Alexandria and even met with her prior to the film's casting.<ref name="Jordan">{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/the-fall-movie-streaming-theaters-oral-history-tarsem-1235054784/|title='The Fall' Oral History: Tarsem and Lee Pace on Making Mischief in Over 20 Countries for an Epic No One Would Touch|work=[[IndieWire]]|date=October 14, 2024|access-date=October 14, 2024|first=Leila|last=Jordan}}</ref><br />
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[[Lee Pace]] remained in a bed for most of the early filming at the director's suggestion, convincing most of the crew that he was in fact unable to walk.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carpenter |first1=Cassie |title=Style meets substance: director Tarsem Singh brings 'The Fall' to theatres after years in the making |volume=15 |work=Back Stage West |issue=20 |date=15 May 2008}}</ref> The intention, Tarsem and Pace noted, was to maximize the realism of Roy's physical limitations in the eyes of Catinca Untaru, whose lines and reactions as the character Alexandria were largely unscripted. Alexandria's misinterpreting the letter E as the number 3 in a note written by Roy came about from an accidental misreading by the 6-year-old actress during filming, which the director adapted into a twist in the story. Tarsem had portions of the hospital scenes between Catinca and Pace filmed through small holes in the hospital bed curtains, maximizing their spontaneous interactions despite the presence of the film crew surrounding them.<ref name=commentary /><br />
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The film features a dream sequence animation created by [[Christoph Lauenstein]] and [[Wolfgang Lauenstein]], with costume design from [[Eiko Ishioka]].<br />
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=== Filming locations ===<br />
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* [[Valkenberg Hospital]] in [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]]<br />
* [[Deadvlei]] from the [[Sossusvlei]] dune in [[Namib-Naukluft National Park]] in [[Namibia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://apanbear.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C3084ECAB4D13C79!1632.entry |title=The Fall – Windows Live |publisher=Apanbear.spaces.live.com |access-date=11 August 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
* ''The labyrinth'' [[Jantar Mantar (Jaipur)|Jantar Mantar in Jaipur]]<br />
* [[Lake Palace|Lake Palace Hotel]] in [[Udaipur]], [[India]]<br />
* [[Charles Bridge]] in [[Prague]], [[Czech Republic]]<br />
* Butterfly reef NE of [[Mana Island, Fiji]] (Coordinates: [https://www.google.com/maps/place/17%C2%B040'20.4%22S+177%C2%B007'54.1%22E/@-17.6723339,177.1295153,951m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 -17.672339, 177.131704])<br />
* [[Ubud]], [[Bali]] Island, [[Indonesia]]<br />
* [[Andaman Islands]] of [[India]]<br />
* [[Pangong Tso]] in [[Ladakh]], India<br />
* [[Buland Darwaza]] in the palace complex of [[Fatehpur Sikri]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]] <br />
* [[Agra]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/puppydogbites/sets/72157594277649442/ |title=The Fall – a set on Flickr |date=20 July 2004 |publisher=Flickr.com |access-date=11 August 2010}}</ref><br />
* [[Magnetic Hill (India)|Magnetic Hill]] in Ladakh, India<br />
* Moonscape near [[Lamayuru Monastery]] in Ladakh, India<br />
* [[Gunung Kawi]], [[Bali]] Island, [[Indonesia]]<br />
* [[Chand Baori]], a large [[stepwell]] in Abhaneri village in the Indian state of [[Rajasthan]]<br />
* [[Jodhpur]], the Blue City in [[Rajasthan]]<br />
* [[Umaid Bhawan Palace]] Lobby, Jodhpur, Rajasthan<br />
* [[Taj Mahal]], India<br />
* [[Buenos Aires Botanical Garden|Jardín Botánico de Buenos Aires]], Argentina<br />
* [[Buenos Aires Zoo|Jardín Zoológico de Buenos Aires]], Argentina<br />
* [[Teatro Opera|Teatro Opera Buenos Aires]], Argentina<br />
* [[Capitoline Hill#Michelangelo|Capitoline Hill]], [[Colosseum]], Roma, Italy<br />
* [[Hadrian's Villa]], Tivoli, Italy<br />
* [[Hagia Sophia]], Istanbul, Turkey<br />
* [[Replicas of the Statue of Liberty#Île aux Cygnes|First Statue of Liberty]] at [[Île aux Cygnes]] in [[Paris, France]]<ref name=commentary>{{cite video |people = [[Tarsem Singh|Tarsem]] (director) |title = The Fall |medium = [[Blu-ray Disc|BD]] [[Audio commentary|commentary]] |date = 2006}}</ref><br />
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== Release ==<br />
=== Original release ===<br />
''The Fall'' premiered at the [[2006 Toronto International Film Festival]]. According to Tarsem, [[the Weinstein Company]] expressed serious interest into theatrically distributing the film in the United States back in 2006/07, but turned down distributing the film after its founder [[Harvey Weinstein]] walked out of the film's cut after 15 minutes during its test screening since he could not understand the film's plot. Tarsem claimed that Weinstein even tried to sabotage the film after he walked out of the film's screening and was forced not to release the film for two years until 2008 with a different distributor and its original international sales being handled by [[Summit Entertainment]], Tarsem confirmed this in a 2024 interview in light and the aftermath of [[Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations|Harvey Weinstein's scandal]]; prior to this, [[Warner Independent Pictures]] had also been interested in distributing the film.<ref name="Jordan"/> It was theatrically released on 9 May 2008, by [[Roadside Attractions]], with a [[DVD]] and [[Blu-ray]] release through [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]] on 9 September 2008.<br />
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== Critical reception and legacy ==<br />
On [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds a 64% approval rating based on 116 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "More visually elaborate than the fragmented story can sometimes support, ''The Fall'' walks the line between labor of love and filmmaker self-indulgence."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_fall_2008|title=The Fall (2006)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|access-date=February 27, 2021}}</ref> [[Metacritic]], which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100 based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-fall|title=The Fall (2006)|website=[[Metacritic]]|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|access-date=June 7, 2019}}</ref><br />
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[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film four stars out of four and wrote, "You might want to see [it] for no other reason than because it exists. There will never be another like it."<ref>{{cite web|first=Roger|last=Ebert|author-link=Roger Ebert|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-fall-2008|title=The Fall Movie Review & Film Summary|access-date=June 7, 2019|website=[[Chicago Sun Times]]}}</ref> He later named it among his top 20 films of 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=The best films of 2008... and there were a lot of them|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/the-best-films-of-2008-and-there-were-a-lot-of-them|access-date=2020-09-13|website=[[Roger Ebert]]|date=19 December 2012 |language=en}}</ref> Nathan Lee of ''[[The New York Times]]'', however, wrote that the film "is a genuine labor of love—and a real bore."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/movies/09fall.html?ref=movies|title=Broken Spirits on the Mend|access-date=30 May 2008|work=The New York Times | first=Nathan | last=Lee | date=9 May 2008}}</ref><br />
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[[New Zealand]] filmmaker [[Peter Jackson]] later cast [[Lee Pace]] as [[Thranduil]] in the ''[[The Hobbit (film series)|Hobbit]]'' trilogy after being impressed by his performance in ''The Fall''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://collider.com/lee-pace-dean-ogorman-the-hobbit/ |title=Lee Pace and Dean O'Gorman Join Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT |work=Collider |first=Adam |last=Chitwood |date=April 30, 2011 |access-date=April 3, 2013 |archive-date=December 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213132943/http://collider.com/lee-pace-dean-ogorman-the-hobbit/ |url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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[[Julia Roberts]] named it as one of her favourite films during a 2023 interview with [[Letterboxd]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEXWmB0mvts |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20231207/SEXWmB0mvts |archive-date=2023-12-07 |url-status=live|title=Four Favorites with Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Sam Esmail and Rumaan Alam |date=December 7, 2023 |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=December 7, 2023}}{{cbignore}}</ref><br />
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The film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008.<ref name="mctop08">{{cite web|title=Metacritic: 2008 Film Critic Top Ten Lists|url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/awards/2008/toptens.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090102205252/http://www.metacritic.com/film/awards/2008/toptens.shtml|archive-date=2 January 2009|access-date=11 January 2009|website=Metacritic}}</ref> Tasha Robinson of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' named it the best film of 2008,<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Murray|first1=Noel|last2=Phipps|first2=Keith|last3=Rabin|first3=Nathan|last4=Robinson|first4=Tasha|last5=Tobias|first5=Scott|date=16 December 2008|title=The year in film 2008|url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-year-in-film-2008,16740|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912001217/http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-year-in-film-2008,16740|archive-date=12 September 2011|website=[[The A.V. Club]]}}</ref> and Sean Axmaker of the ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]'' named it the 6th best film of 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Axmaker |first=Sean |date=2009-01-25 |title=The last list of Lists for 2008 – The Year in Cinema |url=https://parallax-view.org/2009/01/25/the-last-list-of-lists-for-2008-the-year-in-cinema/ |access-date=2025-10-30 |website=Parallax View |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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In 2025, it was one of the films voted for the "Readers' Choice" edition of ''[[The New York Times]]''{{'}} list of "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century", finishing at number 214.<ref>{{cite web |title=Readers Choose Their Top Movies of the 21st Century |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/movies/readers-movies-21st-century.html |website=The New York Times |date=2 July 2025 |access-date=2 July 2025}}</ref><br />
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In 2026, The Fall made it into [[Letterboxd|Letterboxd's]] top 250 films with an average member rating of 4.25 out of 5. As of April 2026, it ranks number 231.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-11-08 |title=Letterboxd's Top 500 Films |url=https://letterboxd.com/official/list/letterboxds-top-500-films/page/3/ |access-date=2026-04-07 |website=letterboxd.com |language=en}}</ref><br />
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=== 4K restoration ===<br />
Prior to September 2024, ''The Fall'' had been unavailable on streaming services or rental services, making it notoriously difficult to access with second-hand Blu-ray copies of the film being very expensive.{{original research inline|date=January 2026}} At the 2023 [[Toronto International Film Festival]], Tarsem discussed the possibility of releasing a 4K restoration of the film, although a major issue was finding a physical label or streaming service that would distribute it in the highest quality possible. When asked if he had approached [[The Criterion Collection]] to issue the restored film, Tarsem replied, "We have. It was the strangest thing, they kind of have not responded to it... Criterion doesn't seem to think it's their kind of film, which is bizarre." Tarsem remained optimistic about a streaming release, "It's just countries like Japan and all reach out individually and say, 'Can we have it?' And we've been able to solve that, but right now, I’d love for it to stream in some way."<ref name=collider/><br />
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In July 2024, [[Mubi (streaming service)|Mubi]] announced that they had acquired rights to the 4K restoration of ''The Fall'' for North and Latin America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Benelux, Turkey and India, with its subsidiary The Match Factory handling sales elsewhere. The restoration premiered at the [[Locarno Film Festival]], following which Mubi released it on their streaming service on 27 September 2024, marking the first time the film has been made available on a streaming service.<ref name=mubi>{{cite web|title=Cult 2006 Film 'The Fall', Starring Lee Pace, Getting Global 4K Re-Release Via Mubi|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|first=Andreas|last=Wiseman|date=15 July 2024|access-date=15 July 2024|url=https://deadline.com/2024/07/the-fall-mubi-rerelease-4k-lee-pace-tarsem-1236010225/}}</ref> As of 2026, the movie is also available on other streaming services.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Fall |url=https://play.hbomax.com/movie/55a3e264-7553-4092-ac4f-113229858927 |website=HBO Max |access-date=13 April 2026}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of films with longest production time]]<br />
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