LD244 - David Holzman's Diary (1967)

Random Acts of Cinema

English - January 22, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MB - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
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He lost his job. He got his draft notice. The only path forward for this cinefile is clear: alienate everyone in his life and fracture his sanity by filming a progressively more erratic week of his life. Is he really searching for truth? Is film even the right way to capture truth? Does he really care about truth at all? Director Jim McBride fake documentary is about how everything filmed is a lie.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968)