Sherman's March
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Actor: Burt Reynolds, Charleen SwanseaDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 155 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
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Movie Review: Possibly the worst movie ever made
Summary: 1 Stars
Around the middle of Sherman's March, the boyfriend of a girl Ross McElwee is courting asks McElwee, "You sure you never had anybody hit you?" This is a question I wanted to ask him for the entire two and a half hours of watching his self-indulgent sniveling about how no one loves him. McElwee starts out making a documentary about Sherman's March to the Sea but ends up turning the camera on himself and his failed attempts at romance. McElwee does his own march through the South, but instead of using artillery to destroy buildings, his weapon is his camera--and it only destroys his own love life. The camera serves as a barrier between him and the people he is talking to, effectively killing any sense of relationship between them. This barrier effect is a comment on how people communicate in an age of technology and points out the failures of interacting through a machine. Though people are constantly telling him to turn off the camera because "this isn't art. It's life!" he insists on filming their intimate conversations--by doing which, he kills any trust that the women have for him, and they then refuse to talk to him because of the camera. Maybe if McElwee had kept his concentration on Sherman instead of on himself, he would have found someone to love him.
Summary of Sherman's March
The plot is simple. After his girlfriend leaves him, filmmaker Ross McElwee takes a voyage along the original route followed by General William Sherman -- but rather than cutting a swath of destruction designed to force the Confederate South into submission, as Sherman did, McElwee searches for love, camera in hand, "training his lens with phallic resolve on every accessible woman he meets." (Chicago Readers Circle)SHERMAN'S MARCH was recently chosen for preservation by the Library of Congress National Film Registry as a "historically significant American motion picture." It has won best documentary awards at numerous film festivals including Sundance, has been cited by the National Board of Film Critics as one of the five best films of its year, was selected for a Cin?ma du R?el retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and chosen as "One of the Top 20 Documentaries of All-Time" by the International Documentary Association.
Filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his cameras inward when his proposed documentary on Northern Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, perhaps the single most hated Union officer in the South, becomes a witty and unexpectedly engaging meditation upon his own ailing love life. As McElwee retraces Sherman's 19th-century march through the South, where his blazing trail left smoking ruins of Georgia's cities and towns in his wake, he can't seem to help but train his camera on a succession of Southern women he meets along the way, using the documentary as a sly method of meeting girls. (Aspiring filmmakers take note: it works surprisingly well.) Sherman's March evolves into an introspective meditation on love, happiness, the fear of nuclear holocaust, and the meaning of life. McElwee's light touch and relaxed, deadpan offscreen narration gives this genial documentary tour of his soul a rare kind of insight. --Sean Axmaker
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