When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out to get married, Susan (Thirtysomething’sMelanie Mayron), 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 (The Magnificent Seven’sEli Wallach)?
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 from Claudia Weill (It’s My Turn) captures the complexities and contradictions of women’s lives and relationships with wry humor and refreshing frankness.
Extras
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 director Joey Soloway
Joyce at 34, a 1972 short film by Weill and Joyce Chopra
Commuters, a 1973 short film by Weill
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: Essays by critic Molly Haskell and scholar Carol Gilligan
