Venice: After a fourteen-year absence, McElwee returns to filmmaking with an affecting tribute to his son’s life that doubles as a reflective, career-spanning culmination of his life’s work. While ...
Each of Ross McElwee’s deeply personal documentaries is built directly atop a fault line that separates — or connects — the microcosmic and the universal. But few films could be more unsparingly ...
The 78-year-old director of 'Sherman's March' and 'Bright Leaves' returns to Venice with a film revisiting both his earlier work and a catastrophe in his personal life. By Jordan Mintzer For a ...
After decades spent capturing his own life and loved ones on camera, the veteran docmaker's wrenching new feature considers the meaning of that material in the wake of a terrible bereavement. Fourteen ...
Long before the video diary became the en vogue format of personal expression on YouTube and social media platforms like TikTok, Ross McElwee was America's preeminent first-person filmmaker. While ...
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