Question

Answer the following about films made in 1978 that follow women working in Manhattan, for 10 points each.
[10e] In the film Interiors, this actress played a New York poet who clashes with her sisters after their parents’ divorce. This actress denied that her title role in the 1979 comedy Annie Hall was autobiographical.
ANSWER: Diane Keaton [prompt on Diane Hall]
[10h] In this indie film admired by Stanley Kubrick, a Jewish photographer lives alone in the Upper West Side after her roommate’s marriage. This Claudia Weill film is often cited as inspiring the female bond central to Frances Ha.
ANSWER: Girlfriends
[10m] Paul Mazursky’s An Unmarried Woman ends with the title character carrying one of these objects on a SoHo street. A film titled for this sort of object, whose score includes an all-female a cappella chant of Latin phrases like “fugere non possum,” ends at a concert of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
ANSWER: paintings [or portraits; accept Portrait of a Lady on Fire or Portrait de la jeune fille en feu; prompt on artworks]
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