‘Remake’ Review: Ross McElwee’s Exquisite Reflection on a Lost Son and the Filmed Life That Remains

Before practically everybody walked around with a video-recording device in their pocket, home movies had a curious sort of formality to them. They were, more often than not, scrappily filmed and clunkily edited, but the labour and contrivance that went into their creation was evident, and they had an enduring physical presence: Tapes could be […]