DVD
Girlfriends
Call Number
- DVD COMEDY (CEN)
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Melanie Mayron, Anita Skinner, Eli Wallach, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban, Gina Rogak, Amy Wright, Viveca Lindfors, Mike Kellin.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
MPAA rating: PG.
Uniform Title
Summary
"When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out to get married, Susan, trying to become a gallery artist while making ends meet as a bar mitzvah photographer on Manhattan's Upper West Side, finds herself adrift in both life and love. Could a new job be the answer? What about a fling with a married, older rabbi? A wonder of American independent filmmaking whose remarkably authentic vision of female relationships has become a touchstone for makers of an entire subgenre of films and television shows about young women trying to make it in the big city, this 1970s New York time capsule captures the complexities and contradictions of women's lives and relationships with wry humor and refreshing frankness."--Container.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1978.
Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Claudia Weill and director of photography Fred Murphy ; 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.