This event is in the past.It took place on July 28, 2026 at Film Forum.
DocumentarySoHo, New York
🎬"The Mark Twain of documentarians... wit is surpassed only by his uncanny knack for observation" (Slant Magazine)
🎬"filmmaker-anthropologist with a rare appreciation for the eccentric details" (The New York Times)
🍿Real peanut oil popcorn at the snack bar
Ross McElwee set out to film Civil War history, but after a breakup, his camera turned toward the "battlefield of modern love." What follows is a shaggy, hilarious, and unexpectedly moving 158-minute tour of the New South, full of eccentric characters and romantic misadventures.
classic documentary revival
first-person filmmaking
1980s time capsule
intimate and sprawling
DocumentarySoHo, New York
🎬"The Mark Twain of documentarians... wit is surpassed only by his uncanny knack for observation" (Slant Magazine)
🎬"filmmaker-anthropologist with a rare appreciation for the eccentric details" (The New York Times)
🍿Real peanut oil popcorn at the snack bar
Ross McElwee set out to film Civil War history, but after a breakup, his camera turned toward the "battlefield of modern love." What follows is a shaggy, hilarious, and unexpectedly moving 158-minute tour of the New South, full of eccentric characters and romantic misadventures.
classic documentary revival
first-person filmmaking
1980s time capsule
intimate and sprawling