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07.14.08DocBlog Playlist: Sherman’s March & Titicut FolliesSherman's March (1986) Directed by Ross McElwee The great thing about Sherman’s March is the overall simplicity of the idea. The success of such a personal film depends completely on the personality of the director (Ross McElwee), who’s decided to put himself in front of the camera in a project that began as one thing; a historical look at General Sherman’s Civil War march, and became another; an autobiographical search for true love. It’s important to put McElwee into context here. This is a man who can be summed up by his consistent nightmares about nuclear holocaust. (One trait I seem to ...
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07.01.08DocBlog Playlist: Highschool, Train on the Brain, Big RigHappy Canada Day! It was a four day weekend for me, so I managed to take in a good number of films. From the non-fiction end of the spectrum, I managed to check out two of this week's new DVD releases, both of which have a travelling theme, Alison Murray's 'Train on the Brain' and Doug Pray's 'Big Rig'. I also continue my look at the films of Frederick Wiseman with his second feature, High School. Here's what I thought of them. Highschool I love the universally simple topics (and titles) of Wiseman's films. His second feature, appropriately named 'High School', literally ...