
| aka The Last Two Weeks (1980) BFI Anitra Pivnick is one of the most original women film-makers to emerge from the American independent cinema and this fascinating film marked her third full-length original screenplay and her fourth credit as a director. Her first feature The Liberal was followed by her first dramatic short Saturday which won the West Coast Film Festival and she produced and edited the 70-minute PBS documentary Fathers and Sons and, in her capacity as a film editor, her credits include CBS's We, The Women (which opened the American Bicentennial series The American Parade), CBS's An Anatomy of a Song, Year End Report, a highly praised documentary about theatre and film in New York, the critically acclaimed Victor Marchetti vs the United States, and Rasta, a film about Rastafarians which received the Philadelphia Film Festival Award. Pivnick, who was, from 1977 to 1980, an instructor at the New York University Graduate Institute of Film and Television, conceived The Last Two Weeks as the film equivalent of an off-Broadway theatre production where its creation gave everyone involved an opportunity to work in a situation free of the usual commercial pressures and enabling new talent to be trained while maintaining the highest professional standards and the resulting movie is both exciting and an individual work which treats its subject with honesty and sensitivity. Pivnick handles her complex story of mutating relationships with great skill and elicits from an excellent cast performances that are unforced, credible and, ultimately, touching. | |
| Broadcast | 10:45pm on Wednesday, 1st June 1983 |
| Strand | American Independent Cinema |
| Alternate Title | |
| Duration | Unknown |
| Genre | Unknown |
| IMDb ID | n/a - BFI |
| Director | Anitra Pivnick |
| Writer | |
| Cast | Claire Malis, Thomas Callaway, Dan Hamilton |
| Language | English |
| Repeat | No |
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