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David Holzman's Diary is a 1967 American mockumentary, or work of metacinema, directed by James McBride and starring L. M. Kit Carson. A feature-length film made on a tiny budget over several days, it is a work of experimental fiction presented as an autobiographical documentary.
Jan 29, 1975 · David Holzman's Diary: Directed by Jim McBride. With L.M. Kit Carson, Eileen Dietz, Lorenzo Mans, Louise Levine. A young filmmaker decides to make a movie of his life.
- (1.9K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Jim McBride
- 1975-01-29
Oct 25, 1994 · Jim McBride’s 1967 film follows a young man who films himself to find the truth about his life, but only gets more confused and lonely. The film mixes humor, drama, and social commentary, and explores the challenges of filmmaking and the Sixties culture.
Oct 31, 2022 · David Holzman's Diary is one of the most influential films of the 1960s, an "ingenious puzzle movie" (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader) that charts the self-destruction of a...
- 73 min
- 3.5K
- Kino Lorber
In writer-director Jim McBride's deadpan spoof of pretentious 1960s cinema verité documentaries, idealistic but easily confused young filmmaker David Holzman (L.M. Kit Carson) decides to...
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- L.M. Kit Carson
- Jim Mcbride
- Comedy
David Holzman's Diary ★★★ 1967 Director McBride helmed this fake underground movie, a legendary put-on focusing on film student pretensions. Holzman is a sincere geek who seeks the meaning of life by filming his own existence in oh-so-chic grainy black-and-white verite.
Jun 13, 2011 · David Holzman’s Diary, a highly prophetic independent film (it was made in 1967, but there’s so much in cinema and television that has to answer to it), is from stem to stern a simulacrum of that era’s cinéma vérité movement, but its seamlessness as such is due in large part, paradoxically, to its theatrical qualities, in ...
