[This is the second of three interviews with key collaborators on Joan Micklin Silver’s Crossing Delancey. Click here to read ...

When Joan Micklin Silver died on the last day of 2020, cinephiles mourned the passing of a major American filmmaker, a status ...

Born to Russian Jewish parents in Omaha, Nebraska, Joan Micklin Silver launched her feature film career in 1975 with Hester Street, a film based on a short story by Abraham Cahan. She wrote the ...

The 1988 film version of “Crossing Delancey,” which Joan Micklin Silver directed, was a very Jewish romantic comedy about the very New York courtship between a worldly young Jewish woman from the ...

Joan Micklin Silver’s classic black-and-white, shoestring budget indie, Hester Street, remains a wonderful exploration of the ...

This 1983 German documentary by Katja Raganelli features director Joan Micklin Silver; her husband, Ray Silver; and a handful of key collaborators discussing her film work, from her debut feature ...

Born to Russian Jewish parents in Omaha, Nebraska, Joan Micklin Silver launched her feature film career in 1975 with Hester Street, a film based on a short story by Abraham Cahan. She wrote the ...