As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.
You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. To escape the harsh reality of their world,... Some have even wanted to make films of their own.
Human relationships are more important than the art they produce, but when those relationships fade, the art can still carry those memories.
Watch Now on Netflix. Years later, she goes in search of him, and it. A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago. Master list of every film I've seen from the entire Asian continent, from West to East to South.Essential movies for lonely people out there (like me) if you want to feel something in this big big world.…*NOTE “foreign film” is, like everything, a dumb made up concept. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. But it works, and it creates a sense of emotional rawness that made me feel closer to the protagonist than I was anticipating. It’s a shame for that to be lost. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal … With Sandi Tan, Jasmine Kin Kia Ng, Philip Cheah, Sophia Siddique Harvey.
i think the fact there isnt a happy ending where we hear they've finished the film makes this so powerful, it must have been very hard to make this documentary.Loved the style and how the archived footage was edited with the interviews.There are better documentaries you should watch instead.no i'm actually so mad at what happened its actually personal to meThis might well be my new favourite documentary - this is essential viewing for anyone in love with films and filmmaking, but this isn't just a documentary about making a film that you subsequently have stolen from you (which is the event that serves as the driving engine of 'Shirkers'). Starring: Sandi Tan.
Good news: it's coming out on Netflix soon!I picked this as my first film watched from Singapore (the Essential watching for anyone who loves movies and more importantly the mythology of filmWhat starts out as a story of growing up geek in repressive Singapore becomes a collage of teenage ambition, cinema dreams, strained and supportive relationships, a self-mythologizing mentor, and the ripple effects of loss, recovery, and boomerang dreams. Grief in it's most potent form, and one of the greatest examples of reclaiming what was taken from you.
In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind, in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie. Use the HTML below.
In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. falters here and there like most documentaries do, there are so many facets to explore and not enough time to dig into them all, but i'm perfectly ok with the fact that…The doc is just as lovely as it was when I first saw it last month, but seeing the sequences with the original footage in a theater felt extra profound — you could feel the loss as you watched it.
Directed by Sandi Tan. 2018 TV-14 1h 37m Biographical Documentaries.
Genres: Movie Documentary. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints.incredibly alarming how all it takes is one person to change history and erase what could have been such a meaningful and monumental piece of art. "I had to marinate in my teenage mania." Linda, Tracy, and Chris are a trio of teenage girls who decide to celebrate the last day of high school by having a slumber party at Linda's house.
I haven't seen most of these movies.…This list is for scripts or source material written or co-written by women.
Shirkers (2018) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. My heart is so heavy, and I'm mourning for Sandi, Jasmine, and Sophie's loss.
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Shirkers, a Sundance documentary now streaming on Netflix, is about Sandi Tan, who as a teenager in Singapore made a road movie that was stolen by her director after its completion.
The result is one of the great acts of turning lemons into cinematic lemonade I can recall.it is going to take me days to come up with the vocabulary with which to discuss this moviethe scariest movie i've watched all halloween season........turns out that the idea of putting that much time and effort and money into something only for it to be taken away is more terrifying to me than just straight-up being murderedI feel so raw after watching this film. 20 years later, the 16mm cans are recovered in New Orleans, sending Sandi-now a novelist in Los Angeles-on a new personal odyssey across two continents and many media: 16mm, digital, Hi8, Super8, slides, animation and handwritten letters. A few guys also show up to further ... Shirkers.
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