Videogum » Sherman’s March http://videogum.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 New Obsession: Pat From Sherman’s March http://videogum.com/43341/new_obsession_pat_from_sherman_1/train-wreck-documentaries/ http://videogum.com/43341/new_obsession_pat_from_sherman_1/train-wreck-documentaries/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:49:32 +0000 Lindsay Robertson (This week, we’re highlighting some of our favorite Videogum posts / video-related moments of 2008. So that’s why things look different, and are old, this week. And Happy Almost New Year!)

Originally posted on Videogum on May 13, 2008:

You pay a price for being a female prophet.
- Pat Rendleman in Sherman’s March

I finally saw the 1986 genre-defining first-person documentary, Sherman’s March, last week, and now I have a new IM icon: Pat Rendleman, one of the amazing women interviewed in the film about a guy named Ross McElwee who set out to make a documentary about General Sherman and ended up making one about his hapless search for love (and nuclear non-proliferation, and Burt Reynolds, but mainly love). I would call Pat “the new Little Edie,” because of her fascinating larger-than-life role in a classic quirky documentary and her awesome fashion sense, but it’s not like the movie isn’t 27 years old — Pat is just new to me, and here are some clips illustrating why I love her.

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]]> 3 New Obsession: Pat From Sherman’s March http://videogum.com/9657/new_obsession_pat_from_sherman/documentaries/ http://videogum.com/9657/new_obsession_pat_from_sherman/documentaries/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 13:14:35 +0000 Lindsay Robertson You pay a price for being a female prophet.
- Pat Rendleman in Sherman’s March

I finally saw the 1986 genre-defining first-person documentary, Sherman’s March, last week, and now I have a new IM icon: Pat Rendleman, one of the amazing women interviewed in the film about a guy named Ross McElwee who set out to make a documentary about General Sherman and ended up making one about his hapless search for love (and nuclear non-proliferation, and Burt Reynolds, but mainly love). I would call Pat “the new Little Edie,” because of her fascinating larger-than-life role in a classic quirky documentary and her awesome fashion sense, but it’s not like the movie isn’t 27 years old — Pat is just new to me, and here are some clips illustrating why I love her.

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