How does a film about romantic failure, General Sherman, nuclear weapons, filmmaking, and the American South become a coherent whole?

Thoughts on Ross McElwee and the seemingly incompatible threads woven into the same movie.

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What happens when art and life merge completely—and the life is the thing that gets damaged?

A passage on Ross McElwee’s Six O’Clock News from my forthcoming book Failure Is the Only Subject.

What film made that boundary feel dangerously thin for you?

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"McElwee has crafted an intricate exploration of memory, much of his own collected on film and digital, in a work brimming with questions, his grief and love for his son so palpable we feel his reluctance to let go" #RemakeMovie #ShermansMarch #RossMcElwee
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Ross McElwee's Remake begins as a reflection on adapting Sherman's March and becomes something far more intimate: a heartbreaking meditation on fatherhood, grief, memory, and the ethics of documenting our own lives.

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My life is complete getting to meet #RossMcElwee in person at @sfindiefest.bsky.social after the screening of his latest doc, #Remake. Photo credit #TimBuckwalter @ofcs.bsky.social

#RossMcElwee talks grief, Goethe, and sifting through images in the making of #REMAKE, an elegy and tribute to his son, Adrien, and the life that could have been. Plays @sfindiefest.bsky.social's #SfDocFest on June 4. @musicboxfilms.com @ofcs.bsky.social

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Ross McElwee returns with what might be a near-perfect bookend for his career on the other side of Sherman's March.
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