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Directed by Joan Micklin Silver

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver

6 Episodes

One of the greatest American filmmakers to emerge in the 1970s, Joan Micklin Silver drew on her background as the daughter of Russian-born Jewish parents to write and direct beautifully bittersweet portraits of women, immigrants, and marginalized communities. With profound empathy, her films vividly evoke specific times and places: New York’s turn-of-the-century Lower East Side (HESTER STREET), the whirlwind office of a Boston alt-weekly newspaper (BETWEEN THE LINES, inspired by her time as a writer for The Village Voice), or the intergenerational cultural melting pot of 1980s Manhattan (CROSSING DELANCEY). Brimming with humor, Silver’s films are rich with insight into the experience of finding one’s place in a rapidly changing world.

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Directed by Joan Micklin Silver

6 Episodes

  • Hester Street
    1:29:36
    Hester Street
    Episode 1

    Hester Street

    Episode 1

    Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1975 • United States
    Starring Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Dorrie Kavanaugh

    Joan Micklin Silver’s remarkable feature debut is a vivid, lovingly detailed evocation of the late-nineteenth-century Jewish Lower East Side built around a luminous, Academy Award–nominated...

  • Bernice Bobs Her Hair
    45:32
    Bernice Bobs Her Hair
    Episode 2

    Bernice Bobs Her Hair

    Episode 2

    Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1976 • United States
    Starring Shelley Duvall, Bud Cort, Veronica Cartwright

    Adapted from the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald—a literary landmark that all but defined the mores of 1920s Jazz Age youth—this PBS-produced short film stars the wonderfully idiosync...

  • Between the Lines
    1:41:51
    Between the Lines
    Episode 3

    Between the Lines

    Episode 3

    Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1977 • United States
    Starring John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum

    Inspired by director Joan Micklin Silver’s time working at New York’s storied alt weekly the “Village Voice,” this unsung gem of 1970s slice-of-life seriocomedy offers an incisive, bitterswe...

  • Chilly Scenes of Winter
    1:35:38
    Chilly Scenes of Winter
    Episode 4

    Chilly Scenes of Winter

    Episode 4

    Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1979 • United States
    Starring John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert

    The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silver—one of only a handful of women to direct a film for a major Hollywood studio in the 1970s—digs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in...

  • Crossing Delancey
    1:37:05
    Crossing Delancey
    Episode 5

    Crossing Delancey

    Episode 5

    Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1988 • United States
    Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, David Hyde Pierce

    Joan Micklin Silver’s wonderfully, warmly Jewish spin on the romantic comedy follows literary, uptown-dwelling Manhattanite Izzy Grossman (a luminous Amy Irving), who finds herself caught...

  • A Fish in the Bathtub
    1:36:50
    A Fish in the Bathtub
    Episode 6

    A Fish in the Bathtub

    Episode 6

    Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1999 • United States
    Starring Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Mark Ruffalo

    Legendary comedy duo (and real-life husband and wife) Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara star as the constantly bickering couple at the center of this sprightly comedy from writer-director Joan Mick...

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