Film
It's My Turn + Joyce at 34
- 7PM
Dir. Claudia Weill
With Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin
1980, 91min, 16mm
Girlfriends director Claudia Weill made her major studio debut with this refreshingly down-to-earth romantic comedy (scripted by Dirty Dancing writer Eleanor Bergstein), which updates the classic screwball formula for the women’s lib era. Jill Clayburgh is a harried mathematics professor whose relationship with her live-in boyfriend (Grodin) has gone stale—could a fling with her hunky new brother-in-law (Douglas) be the answer? Bonus: a Diana Ross theme song.
Post-screening Q&A
With director Claudia Weill
Dir. Joyce Chopra
1972, 28min, 16mm
Director Joyce Chopra collaborated with Claudia Weill for this searching self-portrait, which explores the conflict women face in balancing motherhood and their careers.
Courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
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