Slideshow
DAVID HOLZMAN’S DIARY
2:00 6:30 10:00
Thursday, February 1
Directed by Jim McBride
(1967) L.M. Kit Carson’s David, drafted and newly jobless, films his life in and around his West 71st walk-up. Landmark mockumentary made in five days for $2,500. DCP. Approx. 74 min.
Reviews
“Captures the late-‘60s Upper West Side in all its grimy glory. Cops, neighbors, car horns, sass – all of it survives in a record of one filmmaker’s creative breakthrough and the urban metropolis that inspired it. Essential.”
– Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out
“McBride gives the [New York] streets an inner life, turns ordinary experience into a treasure trove of loss that empties out faster than it fills.”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“An enduring delight from the underground era.”
– Paul Taylor, Time Out
“Where most independent productions are founded on self-righteous claims of truth and honesty, McBride’s film wittily observes that Hollywood has no corner on illusionism.”
– Dave Kehr, The Chicago Reader