Claudia Weill

Director
Claudia Weill

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Birth Place
New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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Made amateur films while a Radcliffe student and, after graduating in 1969, studied painting with Oskar Kokoschka and still photography at Yale with Walker Evans. Weill engineered a number of documentary shorts and experimental films and gained acclaim for her feature-length documentary, "The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir" (1975), made in collaboration with Shirley MacLaine. She ...

Filmography

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Giving Up the Ghost (1998)
Director
Critical Choices (1996)
Director
Face of a Stranger (1991)
Director
Johnny Bull (1986)
Director
It's My Turn (1980)
Director
Girlfriends (1978)
Director

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Women Make Film: Party Girl (1995), Alicia Malone, Claudia Weill
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Women Make Film: Girlfriends (1978), Alicia Malone, Claudia Weill

Biography

Made amateur films while a Radcliffe student and, after graduating in 1969, studied painting with Oskar Kokoschka and still photography at Yale with Walker Evans. Weill engineered a number of documentary shorts and experimental films and gained acclaim for her feature-length documentary, "The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir" (1975), made in collaboration with Shirley MacLaine. She directed her attentions toward the mainstream with two likeable but uneven dramas, "Girlfriends" (1978) and "It's My Turn" (1980), centering on the plight of contemporary women. Weill has reached her widest audience to date as director of the popular TV series, "thirtysomething."

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

Giving Up the Ghost (1998)
Director
Critical Choices (1996)
Director
Face of a Stranger (1991)
Director
Johnny Bull (1986)
Director
It's My Turn (1980)
Director
Girlfriends (1978)
Director
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1974)
Director

Cast (Feature Film)

Calling the Shots (1988)
Herself
The Scenic Route (1978)

Cinematography (Feature Film)

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1974)
Cinematographer
The Year of the Woman (1973)
Cinematographer

Writer (Feature Film)

Girlfriends (1978)
From Story

Producer (Feature Film)

Girlfriends (1978)
Producer

Editing (Feature Film)

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1974)
Editor

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Calling the Shots (1988)
Other
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1974)
Other
The Year of the Woman (1973)
Other

Director (Special)

Profiles (1994)
Director
The Great Love Experiment (1984)
Director

Life Events

1973

Received Independent Filmmaker Grant from AFI

1975

Made a number of short documentaries before teaming up with Shirley Maclaine to direct the feature-length documentary "The Other Half of the Sky--A China Memoir"

1975

Stage directing debut, "An Evening with Merlin Finch" (Williamstown)

1978

Fiction feature directing and producing debut, "Girlfriends" (also wrote story)

1984

TV directing debut, "The Great Love Experiment" (for "ABC Afterschool Special")

1986

TV movie directing debut, "Johnny Bull"

Videos

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Girlfriends (1978) -- (Movie Clip) I Have A War With My Mother The first scene following the credits, with the two de facto title characters, previously just introduced, Melanie Mayron as photographer Susan and Anita Skinner as aspiring writer Anne, in Claudia Weill’s celebrated feature debut Girlfriends, 1978.
Girlfriends (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Thank You For The Hideous Buddha Anne (Anita Skinner) and her husband Martin (Bob Balaban) working on thank-you’s for wedding presents, decide to invite her now ex-roommate, photographer Susan (Melanie Mayron) to their suburban home for the weekend, in Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends, 1978.
Girlfriends (1978) -- (Movie Clip) How Can You Get Married? Minimal staging from first-time director Claudia Weill, Susan (Melanie Mayron) rushes to the laundromat with news for roommate Anne (Anita Skinner), who has an update of her own, with the off-screen first appearance of Bob Balaban as boyfriend Martin, in Girlfriends, 1978.
Girlfriends (1978) -- (Movie Clip) I Caught The Bouquet At a party following her roommate’s wedding, struggling New York photographer Susan (Melanie Mayron) is greeted by hostess Terry (Jean De Baer), and the sublime first appearance of Christopher Guest as Harry, Claudia Weill directing from Vicki Polon’s screenplay, in Girlfriends, 1978.

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