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David Holzman's Diary

Play trailer Poster for David Holzman's Diary 1973,  1h 14m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 91% 11 Reviews Tomatometer 76% 500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
91% Tomatometer 11 Reviews 76% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
In writer-director Jim McBride's deadpan spoof of pretentious 1960s cinema vérité documentaries, idealistic but easily confused young filmmaker David Holzman (L.M. Kit Carson) decides to document every waking moment of his life in an attempt to understand himself and his world. Unsurprisingly, the people around Holzman, from his easily irritated girlfriend, Penny (Eileen Dietz), to the strangers whose own lives he begins spying upon, don't appreciate his newfound obsession.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker Aug 29, 2016
This ingenious, scruffy 1967 metafiction by Jim McBride is an exotic fruit grown in New York from the seed of the French New Wave. Go to Full Review
Joshua Rothkopf Time Out Jun 15, 2011
5/5
Essential. Go to Full Review
Jaime N. Christley Slant Magazine Jun 13, 2011
4/4
What makes it so effective as a puzzle film is the way it provokes us to piece together, mentally, the life that David must have had before we met him. Go to Full Review
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Jul 25, 2020
2/4
...littered with a lamentable assortment of painfully padded-out sequences that are virtually impossible to justify. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com May 12, 2012
A-
Jim McBride's impressive debut, a poignantly funny, improvisational "documentray," became a landmark cult film over the years. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews May 9, 2011
B+
Amusing cinéma vérité faux documentary. Go to Full Review
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Jim McBride

Director

L.M. Kit Carson

David Holzman

Eileen Dietz

Penny Wohl

Louise Levine

Sandra

Lorenzo Mans

Pepe

Fern McBride

Girl on the subway

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Synopsis In writer-director Jim McBride's deadpan spoof of pretentious 1960s cinema vérité documentaries, idealistic but easily confused young filmmaker David Holzman (L.M. Kit Carson) decides to document every waking moment of his life in an attempt to understand himself and his world. Unsurprisingly, the people around Holzman, from his easily irritated girlfriend, Penny (Eileen Dietz), to the strangers whose own lives he begins spying upon, don't appreciate his newfound obsession.
Director
Jim McBride
Producer
Jim McBride
Screenwriter
Jim McBride
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 14, 1973, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 25, 2017
Runtime
1h 14m
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