What you need to know: Remake opens this week in New York. Ross McElwee has been filming his own life since 1986, when Sherman's March made him one of the most influential documentarians alive. His son Adrian died of a drug overdose. The footage Adrian left behind became this film.
Why it matters: McElwee invented the personal documentary. He pointed the camera at himself long before YouTube and kept going for 40 years. This is his most personal film, his best reviewed, and it won the Golden Globes Impact Prize at Venice.
Who should see it: Anyone who has watched home movies of someone they lost. If you loved Sherman's March or Stories We Tell, this is yours.
See this first: Sherman's March. It is where this story starts.
Group chat take: He filmed everything. His son died. Now the footage is the film. That is devastating.
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