FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE David Holzman's Diary 

L.M. "Kit" Carson of Dallas has died. Who. The actor, filmmaker, producer. A maverick no one could probably get along with. During the New Hollywood era, he made David Holzman's Diary with his friend Jim McBride, the incredibly great remake of Breatless in 1983 that everyone hated. As co-writer, he penned Paris_Texas (his son plays the boy). And he served as mentor for Wes_Anderson's first short film Bottle_Rocket. Enough? So we're dealing with a maverick legend! One who never settled down. David Holzman's Diary is a mockumentary from the fabulous year 1967, a mock documentary about a young filmmaker working for director Jim McBride. Along the way, a new genre is invented here, that of a first-person character study (=the first-person narrator) who delivers his confession here. This form has been copied countless times and serves as an original for video blogs or reality TV. Of course, none of the copycats knows who is actually responsible for the original! Do you know Sidney_Lumet's Running_On_Empty? Carson also stars in this melodrama. He plays a terrorist who stays underground and is shot while on the run. Carson himself also lived a lifetime underground. David Holzman's Diary is not autobiographical, but therapeutic. Carson's David Holzman is so obsessed with making movies that it obscures his view of "real" life. He sees everything through his very own glasses, in which life becomes film material. Between the world and his imagination stands the camera. A kind of buffer. I wonder if Carson was aware of this. He certainly seems to enjoy "real" life! You could say he identified with his own film character and built a world around it. Very sincere, very honest. And very self-confident.