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 idiosyncratic Shelley Duvall in one of her finest performances as Bernice, a shy young country girl who travels to the city to to visit her sophisticated flapper cousin (Veronica Cartwright) and winds up getting a crash course in the ways of modern womanhood.
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Between the Lines
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1977 • United States
Starring John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff GoldblumInspired 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...
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Chilly Scenes of Winter
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1979 • United States
Starring John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter RiegertThe 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...
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Crossing Delancey
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1988 • United States
Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, David Hyde PierceJoan 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...
