David Holzman's Diary

Just watched the film, phoned the distributor (where I learned the film "is" fiction), read the reviews on this website, and feel happy to be the first in five years to comment on this masterpiece.What an experience--especially thinking it was... Full review

I guess you would get confused if you didn't understand the hype and hoopla surrounding the cinema verité movement during this era.David Holzman's Diary serves to lampoon cinema verité by showing one dull, overly introspective scene after another. It's a... Full review

Mock cinema vertite about a young filmmakers consternation at finding 'truth' and putting it on film. Insightfully examines how we define reality, how our perceptions can cloud it, and whether it is really possible to show it on film. Probably... Full review

I first saw this film on public TV of all places, at about 2:30 am. Not knowing why(or anything about the film),I grabbed a blank tape and recorded it. What followed was a film that grabbed my attention from the... Full review

This film grabs you in from the get go, and takes you into the mind of a hapless young filmmaker. A true historic masterpiece! It's something completely different and unique from any other moviegoing experience you will ever have. Don't... Full review

If you liked the Blair Witch Project, this is where they probably got the idea. Every film school shows this as an example of a completely fictional documentary, that works. Done in cinema verite style, the fictional angst filled life... Full review

I wish I was a Hollywood exec because I would rip-off (I mean pay homage to) this film. Imagine, Bruce Willis. Doesn't wear a shirt through entire film. Carries a gun (it is New York you know) and documents what... Full review

I don't know why this rather dull piece of cinema verite is so famous. Perhaps you had to be there - in the sixties I mean.A man films his own life for a week or so and in the process... Full review

An enduring delight from the Underground era, cleverly sowing arrant lies at the then-sacred 24 fps. McBride's good-humoured gag on 'personal cinema' and the diary genre casts a wry sidelight on a generation's self-obsession and cinephilia. ... Full Article

A unique, often brilliant satire on cinema verite , this "fake documentary" was shot in only five days on a $2500 budget. Carson plays a young New York filmmaker who decides to get a handle on his life by putting... ... Full Article

David Holzman's Diary , this look at an "on the cusp" starlet named Lisa Picard (Laura Kirk) asks us how fame changes a person. In the hands of quirky director Griffin Dunne we get an often funny and often stilted... ... Full Article

Everyone will have candidates to stump for, but omigod, which '70s New Wave grit immersion do you crown winner?Woody or Marty? Dog Day Afternoon or Klute ? Because it's still an underdog, I'll pitch for Jim McBride's indie satire... ... Full Article