Claudia Weill

Directing

Claudia Weill

Born 1947-01-01 · New York City, New York, USA

Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film Girlfriends (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently and sold to Warner Brothers after multiple awards at Cannes, Filmex and Sundance. Girlfriends would be one of 82 films made by a female director to compete at Cannes. In 2019, Girlfriends was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It's My Turn (1980 for Columbia Pictures)—with Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, and Charles Grodin—won her the Donatello, or International Oscar for best new director. Earlier work includes 30 films for Sesame Street, freelancing as a camerawoman, and numerous documentaries, notably The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, a documentary about the first women's delegation to China in 1973, headed by Shirley MacLaine, nominated for an Academy Award and released theatrically and on PBS. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claudia Weill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Commuters poster
NR

An early morning in a quiet suburban railroad station, where middle class men depart for jobs in the city and female domestics arrive to work in the middle class suburban homes.

Commuters

1970

It's My Turn poster
5.8

A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current boyfriend, between Chicago and New York, and between research and administration.

It's My Turn

1980

Girlfriends poster
6.7

A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.

Girlfriends

1978

Girlfriends poster
6.7

A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.

Girlfriends

1978

Aspen, 1970 poster
NR

A compilation of conferences/debates between renowned designers, environmental activists, and students on the concept of design. Held in Aspen, Colorado, USA.

Aspen, 1970

1970

Critical Choices poster
6.3

A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend and involves three different women, each representing different sides of the issue.

Critical Choices

1996

A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story poster
7.3

A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries to contact her son, she learns that he died, under questionable circumstances when he was three years old.

A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story

1992

Roaches' Lullaby poster
NR

A humorous short documentary which features interviews with three zealous New York City roach-haters who demonstrate their own extermination techniques and recount - in hilarious detail - their own personal experiences with cockroaches. Includes an original musical composition lamenting the presence of this pesty insect in urban life

Roaches' Lullaby

1972

Face of a Stranger poster
10.0

After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's now destitute. She may even have to leave their apartment. Much to the embarrassment of her daughter Tina, who wants to marry a rich snob, she helps the homeless Dollie, who lives in a cardboard box near her building, and they become friends

Face of a Stranger

1991

Johnny Bull poster
5.5

An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the late 1950's. She faces the ire of her new mother-in-law, a former Hungarian with different ideas about the life and culture that her son should have.

Johnny Bull

1986

Giving Up the Ghost poster
6.3

After a woman's husband dies while jogging in the park, the young widow's deep grief helps to awaken his ghost. The ghost urges her to commit suicide to join him in the afterlife. While the young woman is making up her mind about suicide, her husband's ghost helps with a current murder case.

Giving Up the Ghost

1998

Once a Hero poster
NR

In a world gone mad, one man lives to turn wrong to right, bad to good, and despicable to black-and-blue. One man lives to beat back the forces of evil with a legendary arsenal of superpowers. One man lives to kiss the babies, impress the ladies, and make grown men weep. He is Captain Justice, and this is his story. The Cicero Gang, the dregs of society, a vicious pack of power-hungry psychopaths, has taken Captain Justice's number one fan, Woody, and his mom hostage. Once again, evil reigns and innocent lives lay in danger. Can anyone survive? Is this really curtains for rosy cheeks, bubble gum and mom's apple pie? But wait! What is that speck on the horizon, blasting through the Forbidden Zone like a rocket? It's a force beyond the imagination. The man, the myth, the ultimate comic book superhero - it's Captain Justice, speeding towards perilous adventure and various acts of bravery. 74-minute movie is an assembly edit of various episodes from the TV show.

Once a Hero

1987

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir poster
8.0

Documentary on mainland Chinese life. Directed, produced, written, and narrated by Shirley MacLaine, the film follows her First American Women’s Friendship Delegation to China. The delegation consisted of all women, including a four-woman film crew.

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir

1975

No artwork available
NR

A thoughtful and emotional story of the poor is offered in this cinema verite glimpse of a black family's life in a slum apartment in Washington, D.C. The home is a stopping place for country relatives who come to the city looking for jobs, as well as a home-away-from-home for friends. Over the noise and confusion of the household, and the continuous sound of television, Mrs. Graham tells about her life and her feelings.

This is the Home of Mrs. Levant Graham

1970

Joyce at 34 poster
6.4

After giving birth, Joyce attempts to regain her position as a filmmaker while also caring for her new baby. The changes to both her and her husband’s professional lives are remarkable and frustrating. The new parents love the baby but must recognize the limitations she puts on their careers.

Joyce at 34

1972

Joyce at 34 poster
6.4

After giving birth, Joyce attempts to regain her position as a filmmaker while also caring for her new baby. The changes to both her and her husband’s professional lives are remarkable and frustrating. The new parents love the baby but must recognize the limitations she puts on their careers.

Joyce at 34

1972

No artwork available
NR

A 1973 short film about the noted educator and president of Radcliffe College.

Matina Horner: Portrait of a Person

1973

No artwork available
NR

Claudia Weill & Tony Ganz documentary, 1968

Fran

1968