Girlfriends [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Claudia Weill Claudia Weill

Overview

One of the first fictional efforts by former documentary maker Claudia Weill, Girlfriends focuses on a pair of roommates, Susan Weinblatt and Anne Munroe, played by Melanie Mayron and Anita Skinner. Anne gets married, leaving the plump, insecure Susan alone for virtually the first time in her life. A mild flirtation with a rabbi leads to a whole new life for Susan when she becomes a portrait photographer for Jewish weddings and bar mitzvahs. Claudia Weill wrote the (presumed) autobiographical screenplay with Vicki Polon. Filmed in New Jersey, Girlfriends was an expansion of a short subject subsidized by the American Film Institute.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/10/2020
UPC:	0715515249218
Original Release:	1978
Rating:	PG
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:28:00
Sales rank:	10,194

Special Features

New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Claudia Weill and director of photography Fred Murphy, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; New interview with Weill; New interview with Weill and actors Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, and Bob Balaban; New interview with screenwriter Vicki Polon; New interview with Weill and writer and filmmaker Joey Soloway; Joyce at 34, a 1972 short film codirected by Weill and Joyce Chopra; Commuters, a 1970 short film by Weill and Eliot Noyes; Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Melanie Mayron	Susan Weinblatt
Anita Skinner	Anne Munroe
Eli Wallach	Rabbi Gold
Christopher Guest	Eric
Bob Balaban	Martin
Gina Rogak	Julie
Amy Wright	Ceil
Viveca Lindfors	Beatrice
Mike Kellin	Abe
Jean De Baer	Terry
Kenneth McMillan	Cabbie
Russell Horton	Photo Editor
Tanya Berezin	Rabbi's Wife
Kathryn Walker	Carpel's Receptionist
Roderick Cook	Carpel
Kristoffer Tabori	Charlie
Stacey Lomoe-Smith	Rebecca
Michael Small	Composer

Technical Credits

Claudia Weill

Vicki Polon

Claudia Weill	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Vicki Polon	Screenwriter
Jan Saunders	Producer