Truth To Fiction: Sherman's March (4K Restoration)
Thu Aug 06:
$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
Ross McElwee
United States
1985
2h 38m
Series -
Truth To Fiction
About
(Ross McElwee, United States, 1985, 158 min, in English)
Armed with a 16mm camera and a grant to make a documentary about the lingering aftermath of William Tecumseh Sherman’s 1864 march to the sea,
Ross McElwee gets sidetracked. After his girlfriend breaks up with him, Ross shifts his attention from the historical to the personal, to the battlefield of
modern love, and embarks on a sociological chronicle that documents the courting rites and rituals of the New South. A generous and humanistic
portrait of several remarkable women that Ross meets along the way, SHERMAN’S MARCH sketches its characters with novelistic sensitivity: Pat, an
aspiring actress with a yen for Burt Reynolds; Claudia, a roller-skating interior designer; Jackie, the activist whose anti-nuclear advocacy dovetails with
Ross’s deepest fears; and above all, Charleen Swansea, Ross’s mentor and a one-woman Greek chorus of unsolicited romantic counsel. A landmark of
first-person filmmaking that presaged everything from Michael Moore to reality TV, SHERMAN’S MARCH is now available in a new 4K restoration.
Synopsis courtesy of Music Box Films
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