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Sherman's March (1986)

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Release Date: Sep 5, 1986 Limited

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A disarmingly engaging personal documentary, Sherman's March is a portrait of a man in personal crisis that is also an often hilarious ode to Southern women. Filmmaker Ross McElwee states in the film's opening shots that, as a native Southerner, he had always been fascinated with the psychological effect that Union General William Tecumseh Sherman has had on the region. To that end, he intended to make a film that would retrace the route of the general's famous march that brought so much

Unrated, 3 hr.

Documentary, Special Interest

Directed By: Ross McElwee

Written By: Ross McElwee

In Theaters: Sep 5, 1986 Limited

On DVD: Apr 6, 2004

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An utterly charming docu, McElwee's personal essay-travelogue parallels and inverses General Sherman's march during the Civil war, centering on lost loves and new ones, shrewdly using the camera as a weapon and romantic device.

March 22, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

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Unlike Sherman and his reviled scorched earth mode of warfare, McElwee's chasse romantique is ultimately less effectual and usually ends in a nervous, frustrated goodbye.

February 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You

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Leo Goldsmith

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earns him a place as one of America's most unique, and treasured, documentary filmmakers.

November 30, 2005 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

Love and alienation in the nuclear age

June 19, 2004 Full Review | Comment

Louis Proyect

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Sherman's March is an extraordinary documentary by Ross McElwee that mixes American history, a romantic quest, and the search for meaning in the early 1980s.

April 29, 2004 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

Could it be: the Mulholland Drive of documentary films?

April 2, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

McElwee asks us to reconnect not only with each other but with our human spirit.

April 2, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

Piquant, hilarious social tapestry of the American South, warmly and creatively extrapolated from a filmmaker's romantic despair.

August 17, 2003 Comment

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Kind of disjointed, much like real life. Not bad, I like the first-person perspective. The camera as an appendage of Ross McElwee is, for the most part, effective, and he doesn't spare much detail. That's where occasional boredom arises I guess, some parts are exactly like real life, and while the ultra-obnoxious

May 31, 2010

Andy Cramer

While the premise is about the director recording a series of encounters with various women in the South in search of romantic relationships, what's really interesting was the slew of characters he meets during his journey along Sherman's path and their life, dreams, and their views on topics such as the Civil War and

March 19, 2008