Number Our Days

1976 film

1976 (1976)

Running time

28 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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

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]

Cast

Harry Asimow as Himself (archive footage)
Barbara Myerhoff as Herself
Lynne Littman as Herself (voice) (uncredited)
Eddie Gurnick as band leader

References

^ Barrett, Marvin (1978). Rich news, poor news. New York : Crowell. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-690-01740-3. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
^ Margulies, Lee (October 4, 1976). "Venice Jews in TV Documentary". Los Angeles Times (1923-1995). Los Angeles, Calif., United States. pp. –13. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
^ O'Connor, John J. (May 10, 1977). "TV: Moving Study of the Elderly". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
^ "New York Times: Number Our Days". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2011. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011. Retrieved May 27, 2008.
^ "The 49th Academy Awards (1977) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 12, 2019.

External links

Number Our Days at Direct Cinema Limited
Number Our Days at IMDb
Number Our Days at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting

Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film

1941–1975

Churchill's Island (1941)
No Award (1942)
December 7th (1943)
With the Marines at Tarawa (1944)
Hitler Lives (1945)
Seeds of Destiny (1946)
First Steps (1947)
Toward Independence (1948)
A Chance to Live / So Much for So Little (1949)
Why Korea? (1950)
Benjy (1951)
Neighbours (1952)
The Alaskan Eskimo (1953)
Thursday's Children (1954)
Men Against the Arctic (1955)
The True Story of the Civil War (1956)
No Award (1957)
Ama Girls (1958)
Glass (1959)
Giuseppina (1960)
Project Hope (1961)
Dylan Thomas (1962)
Chagall (1963)
Nine from Little Rock (1964)
To Be Alive! (1965)
A Year Toward Tomorrow (1966)
The Redwoods (1967)
Why Man Creates (1968)
Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)
Interviews with My Lai Veterans (1970)
Sentinels of Silence (1971)
This Tiny World (1972)
Princeton: A Search for Answers (1973)
Don't (1974)
The End of the Game (1975)

1976–2000

Number Our Days (1976)
Gravity Is My Enemy (1977)
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor (1978)
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)
Karl Hess: Toward Liberty (1980)
Close Harmony (1981)
If You Love This Planet (1982)
Flamenco at 5:15 (1983)
The Stone Carvers (1984)
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements (1985)
Women – for America, for the World (1986)
Young at Heart (1987)
You Don't Have to Die (1988)
The Johnstown Flood (1989)
Days of Waiting (1990)
Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment (1991)
Educating Peter (1992)
Defending Our Lives (1993)
A Time for Justice (1994)
One Survivor Remembers (1995)
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996)
A Story of Healing (1997)
The Personals (1998)
King Gimp (1999)
Big Mama (2000)