Kubrick on Claudia Weill’s “Girlfriends”

Here’s an interesting quote from Stanley Kubrick on Girlfriends:

Foix: Are you interested in the new paths or trends within current Hollywood production being tried by people like Coppola, Schrader, Spielberg, Scorsese or DePalma?

Kubrick: I think one of the most interesting Hollywood films, well not Hollywood — American films — that I’ve seen in a long time is Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends. That film, I thought, was one of the very rare American films that I would compare with the serious, intelligent, sensitive writing and filmmaking that you find in the best directors in Europe. It wasn’t a success, I don’t know why; it should have been. Certainly I thought it was a wonderful film. It seemed to make no compromise to the inner truth of the story, you know, the theme and everything else.

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The great problem is that the films cost so much now; in America it’s almost impossible to make a good film — which means you have to spend a certain amount of time on it, and have good technicians and good actors — that aren’t very, very expensive. This film that Claudia Weill did, I think she did on an amateur basis; she shot it for about a year, two or three days a week. Of course she had a great advantage, because she had all the time she needed to think about it, to see what she had done. I thought she made the film extremely well.

You can find the full interview here: https://cinephiliabeyond.org/interview-stanley-kubrick-vicente-molina-foix/