Sherman's March (1985)

googled "blood-sucking conenose," which I don't recommend. they can kill you! imagine being down so bad for a linguist you're willing to co-habitat with that many bugs and she still won't sleep with you. that's romance. movie is about how amazing women are <3

fran hoepfner

Single Lens Reflects The godfather of the John Wilson/Nathan Fielder observant/autobiographical/autocritique documentary style. Perhaps more than anything it captures aspects of the South that screenwriters from New York and L.A. often miss (like just how much weirder…

laird

male gaze: the movie

Cosmo Salovaara

what Ross McElwee is too canny to say, in maintaining his fumbling neurotic underdog persona, is that in retracing Sherman's campaign through the South he has also become him, returning from the North to the region he once loved, and blazing his own trail through it by way…

Mark Asch

the only 160 minute documentary I’ve seen with cameos by Burt Reynolds and Burt Reynolds’ (wishful) stand in — incredible that this not only exists but has been restored

Justin LaLiberty

The perfect midpoint between All That Jazz and Beaver Trilogy, two works that are so extraordinarily different that I never even considered the possibility of a midpoint between them existing. Of course, the stakes aren’t particularly high- McElwee isn’t self-destructive or…

Evan “Raymond Gun-Virus” Pincus

A man chronicles himself floundering with women for almost three hours. We all lead our own Sherman’s March.

Joel Haver

McElwee becomes more tolerable as he lets the other figures in the documentary speak, but as has been the case in the previous films I've seen by him, his personality seems to be one that grates on me. I don't think he will ever win me over, but it's worth noting that this…

Sally Jane Black

Insane, brilliant, hilariously self-indulgent, and horny as hell. After watching as many of his docs as I could find at my college’s film library, I found McElwee’s email address and wrote to say how much his work meant to 20-year-old me. He responded nearly a year later,…

Bobby Finger