Dear Diary (1996)

Written by royhsmith on October 28, 2019

An Oscar winner for best short (from the director of The Devil Wears Prada), and yet it seems never to have been distributed in physical form, or digital for that matter. I saw it on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Va3ieBdQjaU and you can too if you don’t mind its lousy image resolution. You probably should if you want to see a fun, quick, yet still somewhat sophisticated short. Too good for TV it seems, as it was originally a pilot that the networks passed on. I think it easily could have been a show on HBO; it reminds me of a bit of Dream On if that show had a female protagonist, or Sex in the City if that show didn’t suck. It deserved better then, and I think it deserves better now.