Remake

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OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies

Remake

Opens July 17

Filmmaker Ross McElwee has spent forty years recording himself and his family. His son Adrian aspires to a more commercial career and welcomes the news that a Hollywood producer wants to remake his father’s seminal 1985 documentary Sherman’s March (also opening at the JBFC on July 17). But as the adaptation stalls and Adrian slips into addiction, McElwee ruminates on what his camera captured and what remained hauntingly out of frame.

Ross McElwee will join us for a Q&A following a preview screening of Sherman’s March on July 12.

"Remake, like all of McElwee’s personal cinema, embody the passage of time itself. In other words, it’s the stuff of life."
Vikram Murthi, IndieWire
"Remake is extraordinarily clear-eyed for a work so broken-hearted: at once a home movie, an intimate diary and an expansive study of the filmmaker’s purpose, constantly disrupting its own conclusions with expressions of anger, amusement and still-unresolved confusion."
Guy Lodge, Variety


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