PICTURES FROM LIFE’S OTHER SIDE (Jim McBride, 1971)

A sequel to My Girlfriend’s Wedding (1969), Jim McBride’s videographed Pictures from Life’s Other Side is, like its predecessor, a cinéma-vérité documentary—well, a paradoxical “home movie,” given that its New World Order family, consisting of McBride, his pregnant English girlfriend, Clarissa, and Joe, her young son from a previous relationship, are in his car heading […]