Shirkers

movies Nov. 20, 2018

Shirkers’ Sandi Tan Didn’t Expect Her Very Strange Story to Be So UniversalThe Shirkers filmmaker talks about the weird life of her long-buried movie, now on Netflix.

By Emily Yoshida

movie review Oct. 25, 2018

Shirkers Is a Joyful, Haunted Tale of Creativity, Youth, and LossSandi Tan’s wildly creative documentary is part mystery, part memoir of growing up young, angry, and drunk on cinema in early-’90s Singapore.

By Emily Yoshida

documentaries Oct. 24, 2018

The Best Documentaries About Movies Gone Completely AwryShirkers continues a long tradition of documentaries showing how hard filmmaking can be.

By Keith Phipps

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