Jim McBride

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DAVID HOLZMAN’S DIARY BY JIM MCBRIDE

By Adrian Martin

In his early twenties, on a staggeringly small budget of $2,500, Jim McBride began making David Holzman’s Diary from three ideas: the central image of a man filming himself in a mirror; the banality of daily life and its rendering on screen; the oppressiveness of life in New York and how it affects people’s perceptions of themselves and others.

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