[EDITORS NOTE: Nick Poppy spoke with Ross McElwee about “Bright Leaves” for indieWIRE in August of 2004; the film will be released on DVD this week (June 21st, 2005).] His thoughtful narration, at ...

Ross McElwee has papers to grade. The man widely regarded as one of America’s greatest documentary filmmakers has just returned to his teaching job at Harvard University after touring Europe with his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a director who built a remarkable career around filming his own life — for better or worse, through thick and thin, commenting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before the video diary became the en vogue format of personal expression on YouTube and social media platforms like TikTok, ...

Ross McElwee's "Remake" has won the Golden Globes Impact Prize for Documentary at the Venice Film Festival. The prize, presented by Artemis Rising Foundation, honors a documentary feature film in ...

FRONTLINE showcases the latest work of filmmaker Ross McElwee, producer of the widely acclaimed 'Sherman's March' and 'Time Indefinite.' In Six O'clock News,' McElwee and his camera investigate the ...

The trailer above for Ross McElwee's Photographic Memory, which screens at 7 p.m. tonight at CAC, is misleading. It runs some scenes in fast forward and uses fast-tempo music that's not in the film.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams has much to celebrate this weekend. His first narrative/fiction film, Cassandro, opens theatrically today. And he has just been named the recipient of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it was released in 1986, “Sherman’s March” announced McElwee as a practitioner of a then relatively new form of first-person ...

Venice: After a fourteen-year absence, McElwee returns to filmmaking with an affecting tribute to his son’s life that doubles as a reflective, career-spanning culmination of his life’s work. While ...