Movies: Ross McElwee
- 2004
Bright Leaves (2004)
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Ross McElwee travels through the North Carolina tobacco belt in search of the ancient southern traditions associated with tobacco growing and use, while comparing his filmmaking to commercial cinema, represented by Bright Leaf, a melodrama directed b...
- 2009
Sweetgrass (2009)
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An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which n...
- 1979
Space Coast (1979)
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Focusing on three residents of Cape Canaveral, Florida this film puts forward the thesis that a decline in NASA's space program after the moon landings has left the local community impoverished....
- 1985
Sherman's March (1985)
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Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march of destruction through the South during the Civil War, but is continually sidetracked by women who come and go in his life, his recurring dreams of nuc...
- 1977
Energy War (1977)
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Documentary feature. 16mm; color; sound....
- 2011
Photographic Memory (2011)
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Distressed over his teenaged son's addiction to the Internet and fearful that the developing boy has grown detached from the real world, documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee takes a journey back into his own adolescence by returning to St. Quay-Portrie...
- 1997
Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997)
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Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Fe...
- 1984
Backyard (1984)
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Documentary film maker Ross McElwee returns to his family home in Charlotte NC. In filming his family, he captures a microcosm of Southern society....
- 1981
N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman (1981)
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This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. N!ai tells her own story, and in so doing, the story of Ju/'hoan life over a thirty y...
- 2000
No Vladimir (2000)
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Vladimir is an impeccably dressed student who wants to become a spy. In pursuit of this goal he learns all he can about espionage, learning codes and leaving secret messages for his college roommate (the narrator). Vladimir tries his best to become a...
- 1991
Something to Do with the Wall (1991)
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In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing structure was still very much intact as the world’s most visible symbol of hardline Communism and Cold War ...
- 1993
Time Indefinite (1993)
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After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies, his wife miscarries, and then his father dies less than a week later. Shaken by the sudden string of deaths, McElwee becomes depressed. After spendin...
- 1981
Resident Exile (1981)
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This short film, made with my friends and filmmaking partners, Michel Negroponte and Alex Anthony, was commissioned by PBS's innovative TV Lab in 1980. The three of us saw Kazem Ala, an Iranian student and political exile, briefly interviewed on a l...
- 2008
In Paraguay (2008)
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Documentary film by Ross McElwee....
- 1997
Six O'Clock News (1997)
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Filmmaker Ross McElwee trails characters whose stories have been fodder for television news and takes their tales of loss and longing further than the requisite sound bite. In the process, he examines how the medium works and exposes its limitations....
- 1977
Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On? (1977)
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In Charleen, documentarian Ross McElwee looks at the life of a North Carolina poet and teacher who acts as a muse to a motley crew of artists and musicians....
- 1974
20,000 Missing Persons (1974)
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Early documentary short by Ross McElwee. 16mm; color; sound....
- 1976
68 Albany Street (1976)
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Early documentary short by Ross McElwee. 16mm; color; sound....