# Joan Micklin Silver
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joan micklin silver (May 24, 1935 – December 31, 2020) was an American director of films and plays. Born in Omaha, Silver moved to New York City in 1967 where she began writing and directing films. She is best known for Hester Street (1975), her first feature; and Crossing Delancey (1988).
Julia Wagner, "Hester Street" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut feature film, Hester Street (1975), vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (Carol Kane), a young, Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York City from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Reunited with her alr…
Julia Wagner, "Hester Street" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut feature film, Hester Street (1975), vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (Carol Kane), a young, Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York City from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Reunited with her alr…
Julia Wagner, "Hester Street" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut feature film, Hester Street (1975), vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (Carol Kane), a young, Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York City from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Reunited with her alr…
Episode 73: Keith Gordon
Bill speaks to actor and filmmaker Keith Gordon about his life and career, from making Super 8 shorts and interning at MOMA's film archives after school to acting in Off-Broadway plays and Hollywood movies like JAWS 2, ALL THAT JAZZ, DRESSED TO KILL and CHRISTINE, to directing independent films lik…
#004 - Pocketful of Miracles: The Films of Joan Micklin Silver
We discuss the work of Joan Micklin Silver, best remembered as the pioneering writer-director behind Hester Street (1975), Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979), and Crossing Delancey (1988).
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Episode 219 - Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979/1982)
A bland office drone has an affair with his married coworker and becomes obsessed with her, while juggling his suicidal mother and unemployed best friend; did we mention it's a comedy?
Starring John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan, and Gloria Grahame. Written and directed by…
122 - CROSSING DELANCEY (1988)
We finally complete our first double feature of 2026 by following up Saving Face with Joan Micklin Silver's lovely NYC rom-com, Crossing Delancey (1988). We get into the cultural specificity of the film, its laughs, its touching moments, and how gorgeous Amy Irving is throughout.
We also chat abou…
029: Criminally Forgotten Movies-Chilly Scenes of Winter/The Seventh Victim
If cinema is the closest thing we have to time travel, then watching "old" movies is our most direct portal into the psyche of the past. These films do more than just capture a moment; they contextualize the global industry’s shifts, the trends of the era, and the evolving politics and psychologies…
294. 'Crossing Delancey' (1988)
Joan Micklin Silver's 1988 NYC love-letter/romantic comedy Crossing Delancey is one of the superlative NYC films of all time.
And watching it today, it's hard not to mourn the loss of the sense of collective experience as New Yorkers she puts onscreen, given our current situation in the City of so…
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