'For Madmen Only': Film Review | SXSW 2020
[Note: In the wake of SXSW's cancellation this year, The Hollywood Reporter is reviewing select fest entries that elected to premiere digitally.] A few years ago, SXSW presented a film called Thank You Del, which introduced newbies to the tremendously influential improv teacher Del Close via an annual tribute hosted by the Upright Citizens Brigade. Now we get a fuller portrait in Heather Ross' For Madmen Only, which pairs testimonials from the late Close's big-star students with material capturing some of the strange ways in which he tried to tell his own story over the years.