Sherman's March: This is Pat

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IN THIS SCENE: In his improbable search for love Ross spends some time with Pat who dreams of fame.

ABOUT THIS FILM: When First Run Features released Ross McElwee's Sundance Award-winning Sherman's March in 1986, it went on to become one of the largest grossing documentaries ever. Audiences and critics alike fell in love with McElwee's "quirky, funny and fascinating" (Newsweek) first-person narratives that would help define a new era of personal documentaries.

After his girlfriend leaves him, McElwee takes a voyage along the original route followed by General William Sherman -- but rather than cutting a swath of destruction designed to force the Confederate South into submission, as Sherman did, McElwee searches for love, camera in hand, "training his lens with phallic resolve on every accessible woman he meets." (Chicago Readers Circle)

"Magical... the funniest road film since Lost in America." -J. Hoberman, Village Voice

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[AnnArckey]

...@firstrunfeaturesnyc - thanks for posting these clips - I really need to make time to watch them in order.

I'd r-e-a-l-l-y love to watch this film from start to finish again, I seem to remember it being about 3 hours long (?)

[firstrunfeaturesnyc]

Yes it's about two and a half hours or so, but entertaining the whole time.

[firstrunfeaturesnyc]

You should rent the movie - its one of the greats.

[friedboloney]

I can't believe that this clip doesn't include Pat's "exercises."

[bluntkid]

YO thats my dad

[WhyMeMoFo]

Ah, the face of mental illness.....

[WhyMeMoFo]

@lsnows None one but Southerners understand why traitors and turncoats are being celebrated. I've been to Germany, few people celebrate Nazism....

[lsnows]

Why do people in the South remember the Civil War in the way they do? Correct me if I'm wrong: they lost. It's curious that people in Maine, Ohio and New York don't go around waving the Union flag memorializing their victory.  Why do people in the South go around waving the Stars and Bars all the time in memory of their defeat? Can somebody explain that to me? I may be a Brazilian, but I'm just not getting something. Why memorialize your losses?

[jamalkiser]

and this is why the south lost the war...

[7777TubeSurfer]

This documentary is not just one of the greats, it's one of the best documentaries ever made–I've seen none better. Humor, history, romance, melancholy, irony, satire, earnestness, pathos, beauty–ethereal beauty, spoken and photographed. Plus first-rate editing. And this was made years before reality television. If you like film and documentaries, this is an absolute must-see. -- a former North Carolina resident (though not native) and one who will always love North Carolina and the South.

[dogterd]

and now we return to the Light Crust Dough Company's "Mental Illness Theatre"

[dasbakon]

Easily one of the 10 greatest documentaries ever made. It's right up there with Brother's Keeper and Warrendale.

[sockettuem]

This woman is in desperate need of psychiatric help.