The master that was used to source this release is very, very nice. Presented in an aspect ratio of 2.35:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Moment by Moment arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber. The beautiful title song, which feels like a giant oddity in this horrendous film, is sung by Yvonne Elliman. Indeed, Moment by Moment is the type of monumental failure that reveals complete lack of understanding as to how a feature film ought to treat its characters and their relationship(s). It is astonishing to see that she kept getting asked to write because it is hard to imagine that her style had dramatically evolved. Wagner did not direct another film after Moment by Moment, but apparently produced quite a few screenplays for various TV projects. Needless to say, it is nauseating material of the highest quality. The process involves a lot of 'honest' discussions with the equally rebellious Strip, as well as a string of situations serving as a litmus test that reveals the different prejudices of the people in her environment. The film then chronicles how Trisha, a prisoner of her social environment, regains her freedom to be herself and live her life as she wants. This is a big problem for Strip because he wants their relationship to be truly special and last a long time, not function like a casual affair that only satisfies their sexual desires. However, because they come from vastly different areas of society, Trisha has to pretend that Strip is just another object in her reality, like an errand boy that occasionally drops a paper bag full of fresh produce on her porch. Suffice to say, in the real world his persistence would have quickly placed him behind bars). (I will spare you the details of precisely how Strip inserts himself into Trisha's supposedly very boring life. Trisha and Strip bump into each and then against all odds begin a romantic relationship. The latter is Strip, a much younger outsider who is in the area to see some friends that have decided to ignore him. The former is Trisha Rawlings, a middle-aged divorcee who lives alone with her pooch in a nice beach house in a quiet corner of Malibu. The two characters that I mentioned are played by Lily Tomlin and John Travolta. Or was the film supposed to send a coded message to younger guys dreaming of having a romantic relationship with a wealthy older woman? If so, who was the codemaker? Because I assure you that any younger guys that saw this film in the 1970s would not have been interested in dating an older woman even if they had the opportunity to do it. What was the target audience for this film in the late 1970s? Mary, Jane, Barbara, Kathy and the rest of their seventeen girlfriends who lived alone in Malibu and each night drank a bottle of chardonnay on their patio or in front of their stylish fireplace? (Is this even possible? Was there ever a period when so many single wealthy and unhappy women lived alone in Malibu? If there was, it was a social anomaly that was kept secret). Region-A "locked".įor hours after I finished viewing Jane Wagner's Moment by Moment I tried to remember if I had seen another film like it that worked so hard to convince that its adult characters are children, and then worked even harder to excuse their indescribably silly behavior because they were both victims. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. The supplemental features on the disc include vintage promotional materials as well as new audio commentary recorded by critics Lee Gambin and Sergio Mims, and author Maya Montanez Smukler. Jane Wagner's "Moment by Moment" (1978) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber.
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