A totally delightful satire on "the blubber about cinema vérité."-New York Times

Taking as its starting point Godard's celebrated statement that cinema is truth, twenty-four times per second, David Holzman's Diary proceeds to disabuse both protagonist and viewer of any such notion. L. M. Kit Carson (who wrote the screenplay) is cast as David Holzman, a New York cinephile whose desire to record his life on film begins as an artistic quest but turns into obsession and, finally, personal disaster. As the film progresses, it becomes apparent that its subject, at first assumed to be Holzman, is the camera, and finally the process of filmmaking itself. Documentary filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker is reported to have commented to McBride, "You've killed cinema verité. No more truth movies."