Jim McBride became one of the most important new American filmmakers after just one film, David Holzman's Diary, which won First Prize at the 1968 Pesaro Film Festival (where Godard and Pasolini were judges) and went on to receive great critical acclaim in the U.S. and Britain. On the basis of David Holzman's Diary and the film which followed it (My Girlfriend's Wedding), McBride was given the chance to direct a commercially-budgeted feature-length work. The result is Glen and Randa, a science-fiction parable set in the post-holocaust future, and shot on location in Mendocino County. Glen and Randa was a box-office failure, but was listed on several “ten best of the year” lists, including Time's.
