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A young filmmaker decides to make a movie of his life.A young filmmaker decides to make a movie of his life.A young filmmaker decides to make a movie of his life.
- Awards
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Eileen Dietz
- Penny Wohl
- (as Penny Wohl)
Mike Levine
- Sandra's Boy Friend
- (as Michel Lévine)
Robert Lesser
- Max, Penny's agent
- (as Bob Lesser)
- Director
- Writer
- Jim McBride(uncredited)
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- TriviaShot on a budget of only $2,500.
- GoofsHolzman shows a montage of TV he says he watched on a Tuesday night in July 1967. He was wrong about the night. Although it's hard to date the Huntley/Brinkley Report newscast or the Joey Bishop Show late-night talk show, neither Batman, Star Trek or the Dean Martin Show aired on a Tuesday night. In July 1967, Batman aired on Wednesday and Thursday nights and Star Trek and the Dean Martin Show aired on Thursday nights. The montage is from a Thursday night.
- Quotes
David Holzman: It was like rooms everything is so perfect, that everything is so perfect that they have to be kept, that because this random particular accidental state so meaningful, so, so touching, it's so touching, it's so beautiful.
- ConnectionsEdited into 365 Days, also Known as a Year (2019)
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It stops being your life and starts being a work of art, a bad work of art
Jim McBride's mockumentary is a delightful satire about the filmmaker's compulsion to capture everything on camera, and also a wry character study of one young man who uses his "art" as a pretext for complete self-absorption. This film from the sixties eerily forecasts our present absorption with social media.
As played by L.M. Kit Carson, David is on an irreconcilable mission: to at once understand a world in chaos, and cocoon himself from it in his own cinematic world.
He is lucky that his girlfriend ( Eileen Dietz) didn't chuck his camera when he filmed her sleeping nude.
One thing I found fascinating is the "Observer Effect" as defined by David. Once you start filming, you cease to have reality as you change in response to the film. It is not real life, it is a movie. One would wonder here, if you wore a GoPro Hero all day would you record a normal day, or would you look for the abnormal?
With irritation, alienation, a sex-hungry lady sitting in a car in the middle of traffic, and a few bloody noses, this one "Diary" worth peeking into.
As played by L.M. Kit Carson, David is on an irreconcilable mission: to at once understand a world in chaos, and cocoon himself from it in his own cinematic world.
He is lucky that his girlfriend ( Eileen Dietz) didn't chuck his camera when he filmed her sleeping nude.
One thing I found fascinating is the "Observer Effect" as defined by David. Once you start filming, you cease to have reality as you change in response to the film. It is not real life, it is a movie. One would wonder here, if you wore a GoPro Hero all day would you record a normal day, or would you look for the abnormal?
With irritation, alienation, a sex-hungry lady sitting in a car in the middle of traffic, and a few bloody noses, this one "Diary" worth peeking into.
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- Nov 16, 2013
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- David Holzmans Tagebuch
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- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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