Why Netflix's Documentary Obsession Isn't Exactly Good for Documentaries
One Saturday afternoon this spring, on the first warm day after what felt like a century of winter, a few hundred Torontonians willingly filed into the dark, sticky-floored bowels of the Scotiabank theatre to watch a documentary about a film that was never made.
The doc, Shirkers, is a mystery movie and a restoration project. Twenty-five years ago, 18-year-old Sandi Tan and her friends were punk teens in Singapore obsessed with Jim Jarmusch movies and the Velvet Underground. Determined to