The Original Movie Changed Documentary Filmmaking. Then the Director of Paul Blart: Mall Cop Wanted to Remake It.

The Original Movie Changed Documentary Filmmaking. Then the Director of Paul Blart: Mall Cop Wanted to Remake It.

The director of Sherman’s March examines what happened when Hollywood came knocking—and when tragedy struck.

Remake Review: Ross McElwee’s Introspective Documentary Haunts with Humanity

“I used to call myself a filmmaker. I used to call myself your father.”  These two sentences are repeated like a mantra through Ross McElwee’s latest searingly personal documentary, Remake, focused primarily on the devastating loss of his 27-year-old son Adrian to a fentanyl overdose in 2016. It’s the director’s first film in fifteen years—the last, Photographic Memory, also utilized his relationship with Adrian to tackle self-reflective themes …