Number Our Days
| Number Our Days | |
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| Directed by | Lynne Littman |
| Written by | Lynne Littman Barbara Myerhoff |
| Produced by | Lynne Littman |
| Starring | Harry Asimow |
| Cinematography | Neil Reichline |
| Edited by | Lewis Teague |
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Running time | 28 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Number Our Days is a 1976 American short documentary film about a community of elderly Jews in Venice, California. It was directed by Lynne Littman and aired on KCET's news show 28 Tonight.[1] The Academy Film Archive preserved Number Our Days in 2007.[2]
Reception
[edit | edit source]Lee Margulies of the Los Angeles Times called Number Our Days "beautiful" and "a very human film, full of expressive faces and heartfelt emotion. It is full of compassion but never pity."[3] John J. O'Connor of The New York Times wrote that Number Our Days was "a moving portrait of loneliness, pride, humor, bitterness and dignity".[4]
Number Our Days won an Oscar at the 49th Academy Awards, held in 1977, for Documentary Short Subject.[5][6] Number Our Days was cited when 28 Tonight won an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award in 1978.[7]
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Harry Asimow as Himself (archive footage)
- Barbara Myerhoff as Herself
- Lynne Littman as Herself (voice) (uncredited)
- Eddie Gurnick as band leader
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Number Our Days at Direct Cinema Limited
- Number Our Days at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Number Our Days at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
- 1976 films
- 1976 short documentary films
- 1976 independent films
- American short documentary films
- Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
- American independent films
- Jews and Judaism in California
- Documentary films about old age
- Films shot in Venice, Los Angeles
- Documentary films about Jews and Judaism in the United States
- 1970s English-language films
- 1970s American films
- English-language short documentary films
- English-language independent films