Ross McElwee
Ross McElwee is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, and Harvard professor, known for his autobiographical films about his family and personal life, usually interwoven with an episodic journey of some sort. McElwee is a 1971 graduate of Brown University, and received his MS from MIT in 1977. He received the Career Award at the 2007 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.067 |
| Birthday | 1947-07-21 |
| Place of Birth | Charlotte, North Carolina, USA |
| Also Known As |
1991
Something to Do with the Wall
7/1
In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing structu...
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Something to Do with the Wall
1985
Sherman's March
6.9/33
Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march of destruction through the South during the Civil W...
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Sherman's March
2011
Photographic Memory
5.5/5
Distressed over his teenaged son's addiction to the Internet and fearful that the developing boy has grown detached from the real world, documentary f...
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Photographic Memory
1997
Six O'Clock News
6/5
Filmmaker Ross McElwee trails characters whose stories have been fodder for television news and takes their tales of loss and longing further than the...
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Six O'Clock News
1993
Time Indefinite
6.9/9
After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies, his wife miscarries, and then his father dies les...
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Time Indefinite
1977
Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On?
8/1
In Charleen, documentarian Ross McElwee looks at the life of a North Carolina poet and teacher who acts as a muse to a motley crew of artists and musi...
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Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On?
1984
Backyard
6/4
Documentary film maker Ross McElwee returns to his family home in Charlotte NC. In filming his family, he captures a microcosm of Southern society.
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Backyard
2004
Bright Leaves
6.9/14
Ross McElwee travels through the North Carolina tobacco belt in search of the ancient southern traditions associated with tobacco growing and use, whi...
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Bright Leaves
Remake
0/0
For nearly forty years, Ross McElwee has made closely observed and profoundly subjective documentaries about how his personal life intersects with the...
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Remake
1997
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
6.6/5
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "wor...
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