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Girl Friends, directed and produced by Claudia Weill '68, is a small movie. It's not that nothing happens, but when it's all over, you wonder if it was worth the trip. What you see on the screen is hardly more engaging than watching your neighbors. A lot of water passes under the bridge, but somehow it never reaches the other side. What does emerge is a very warm and compelling portrait of a young woman, Susan Weinblatt. But however appealing her character is, so little is required of her that we remain uninvolved. She ends up very much...
Directed by Claudia Weill...
Girl Friends is very easy to admire-from a distance. Shot on a shoestring budget with mostly unsung actors, this film was made by a young woman director working outside the studio system. Claudia Weill, co-director of Shirley Mac-Laine's documentary The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, raised the money for Girl Friends herself, then hawked the movie to distributors (eventually landing Warner Bros.). Although the film's real subject is female friendship, Weill is not a dogmatic feminist. Girl Friends tells of both men and women who suffer the pangs of young...
Mark Furman, 28, and his wife Claudia, 24, were driving from Milwaukee to Chicago when their car was bumped from behind by a Cadillac carrying four passengers. Two of them jumped from the Caddie, shot and killed Mark, then pistol-whipped Claudia and shot her in the right arm. More and more, say authorities, motorists are attacking one another with fists, knives, guns-or with the car itself-after minor accidents or quarrels over right...
...Claudia Kiel gives a piano recital at BU Concert Hall, 855 Comm. Ave., Boston...