“People don’t want to see a film about me, they want to see a film about what I see.” Music Box Films has debuted the official trailer for the documentary film titled Remake, the latest powerful work from award-winning American doc filmmaker Ross McElwee, best known for his 1986 doc Sherman’s March. This premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival last fall, and it also played at the True/False Film Festival this year. A lifetime of beautifully-captured images of his family allows director Ross McElwee to craft a heartfelt love letter to his late son Adrian, who struggled with mental illness & drug addiction. With the premise of chronicling the process of turning his acclaimed Sherman’s March into a fictional movie, McElwee picks up the threads of all his previous films—family, love, death, legacy, time—to expertly weave a new portrait that moves between reflection and revelation, exploring the tensions between commercial cinema and artistic integrity, and simultaneously creating and recording the bond between father and son. McElwee’s first new film in 14 years, Remake “continues in the vein of the filmmaker’s best work, albeit with more emotional weight than ever before.” Very good film. Exceptionally tragic but immensely soulful & profoundly moving. // Continue Reading ›
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