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2 days ago · “I didn’t know until I saw the finished film that it is dedicated to Joan Micklin Silver,” Kane says, referring to the director of Hester Street. “That was wonderful. But learning Hebrew ...
5 days ago · Success came astonishingly early: she was a 23-year-old nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actress in Joan Micklin Silver’s Hester Street. But then, she says, ...
1 day ago · Like so many films made by women in the seventies—including those of Joyce Chopra, Claudia Weill, Amalie Rothschild, and Joan Micklin Silver—Not a Pretty Picture was well received at women’s film festivals but was met with a muted reception outside that context.
1 day ago · Consider that Kane played Simka on the TV sitcom, “Taxi”; the Yiddish-speaking wife, Gitl, in Joan Micklin Silver’s immigrant drama “Hester Street” (for which she received an Oscar ...
2 days ago · The film is also a comeback for Kane, 72, the Jewish actress who starred in seminal Jewish classics such as Joan Micklin Silver’s “Hester Street” and Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” in the ...
1 day ago · In the late 1970s and early 1980s, female filmmakers that were involved in part of the new wave of feminist film included Joan Micklin Silver (Between the Lines), Claudia Weill (Girlfriends), Stephanie Rothman, and Susan Seidelman (Smithereens, Desperately Seeking Susan).
5 days ago · Kane received a best actress Oscar nomination for her stunning turn in Joan Micklin Silver’s Hester Street. She stars as Gitl, a Jewish immigrant who arrives with her son to live with her husband Yankel (Steven Keats) in New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the century.
