Yes, Virginia, documentaries can be uplifting — even downright fun! Here’s a list of 10 feel-good documentaries to get the new year off to a bright start. Some are major award winners. Others aren’t necessarily the highest form of the art. But they all should put a smile in your face. And we think that’s …
A Portrait of the Director as Middle-Aged Synchronized Swimmer
Dylan Williams, the director and one of the Swim Gents in the film Men Who Swim (check local listings), joined us to discuss how directing and appearing in his own documentary sometimes meant that life imitated art, and vice versa. What made you start filming the Stockholm Arts Gents? As soon as I became a …