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VHS : David Holzman's DiaryIn association with Amazon.comstarring: L.M. Kit Carson, Eileen Dietz, Louise Levine, Lorenzo Mans, Fern McBride directed by: Jim McBride  List Price: $19.98 Price: $8.77 You Save: $11.21 (56%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302793932 Format: Black & White, NTSC ISBN: 6302793939 Label: Fox Lorber Manufacturer: Fox Lorber Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Fox Lorber Release Date: May 20, 1998 Running Time: 74 minutes Studio: Fox Lorber Sales Rank: 6388 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Inducted into the prestigious United States National Film Registry in 1991, David Holzman's Diary is a hilarious and well-aimed satire of the cinéma vérité filmmakers of the 1960s. So naturalistic it fooled many an expert, Diary pretends to be the actual, day-to-day life of young filmmaker David Holzman. Holzman plans to film himself and his acquaintances in order to present a documentary about the common man, if the common man were an annoying film-school student whose girlfriend is getting fed up with being surreptitiously photographed, whose draft board is after him, and who is constantly assailed and assaulted on the streets of New York. Completely self-deprecating and ceaselessly entertaining, this is a rare example of self-conscious filmmaking that never takes itself seriously, but never condescends in its humor. --James DiGiovanna Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Only interesting from standpoint of background shotsI lived during during the 1960s and was in NYC from time to time. So consequently the outside film shots were somewhat interesting, but the tedious boredom of "Holzman's" life (doesn't matter it is faux) is draining as a viewer. I enjoy documentaries (faux or not) and this is very shabby compared to so many other films. I could not endure it to view it more than once and the 74 original minutes was about my limit. My video did include the last part (which was somewhat interesting except you wonder ... Read More Rating:  - Satire of direct cinemaIn the sixties Jean-Luc Godard claimed that film was truth 24 frames a second. So David Holzman endevours to see it's true by filming himself to establish some truth about his life. `David Holzman's Diary' is essentially a subtle psuedo-documentary or mockumentary exploring what can be regarded as truth in an emerging media-made reality. It's easy to believe that what we are seeing is real but in reality is scripted and acted and directed. What director Jim McBride (who worked as a news cameraman) is doing ... Read More Rating:  - A note about the existing Fox Lorber transferWhile the quality of the NTSC VHS tape is very good, there is one major flaw in the Fox Lorber version of this film: the transfer is missing the last five minutes of the full version. The Fox Lorber transfer ends with David Holzman being forced to confront his ex-girlfriend Penny, after being caught by a policeman filming Penny through her window from the street. The last words on the the Fox Lorber transfer are: " ...Penny said forget it." These words are said over black. It's as ... Read More Rating:  - NAVEL-GAZING QUESTIONED!In this brilliantly conceived and executed film, the director accomplishes satirization of the elements of cinema verite (direct cinema), and does so in such a fashion as to supply a lot of laughs. Brought into question are the concepts of a person being filmed when said person was not aware that a film of said person was going to be shot (as if, as we are supposed to suppose, in direct cinema, that the camera is not noticed by the subject(s)). And, the concept of the unscripted material being able ... Read More Rating: - What "Get Smart" is to James Bond this is to the Mayslesbrothers. I felt like the Boston Strangler was operating the camera as the "verite" subjects were inside of their own homes and being shot through windows, from the street, in the final segment. It has occured to me that being a "verite" subject could easily rub a person the wrong way. And other parts of this movie- such as splices of all different images to have appeared on TV during the course of an evening (in 1967- so not only is it an amazing experience, visually, to grok this- it also is a nostalgia trip). ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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