‘Remake’ Review: Documentarian Ross McElwee Honors the Memory of His Late Son by Chronicling Their On-Screen Relationship

‘Remake’ Review: Documentarian Ross McElwee Honors the Memory of His Late Son by Chronicling Their On-Screen Relationship

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.

Remake – first-look review

In his first film in 14 years, Ross McElwee comes to terms with the death of his son Adrian, and what good documentary is in the face of heartbreak. "We can't go backwards, Dad." A young Adrian McElwee says this to his father, filmmaker Ross McElwee, while they're catching crayfish together in the opening footage of Remake, his first project in 14 years. Adrian's talking about the way they have to move his homemade net through the water to yield…

Remake — Ross McElwee [Venice '25 Review]

Aside from the late Jonas Mekas, Boston-based director Ross McElwee is probably the best-known practitioner of the diary film. For nearly 50 years, McElwee has been documenting the business of his daily life and, like Mekas, he has thematically organized those quotidian fragments and arranged them into coherent cinematic statements. Unlike most diary filmmakers, however, [...] The post Remake — Ross McElwee [Venice ’25 Review] appeared first on …

Ross McElwee's "Remake" - Venice Film Fest 2025 Review

"Sherman's March" director Ross McElwee revisits his career with new perspective and plenty of personal doubts after the death of his son. The post Venice Film Fest 2025 Review: A Legendary Documentarian Wonders If His Films Were a Myth in the Thought-Provoking “Remake” appeared first on The Moveable Fest.