Hester Street

you wouldn't catch me treating Carol Kane like this

fran hoepfner

Joan Micklin Silver encountered a Hollywood so aggressively anti-women directors in the 1970s, that - in reaction - she made a film that was aggressively anti-Hollywood. “Hester Street” was Silver’s first feature - created when she was 38-years-old. The picture, about a…

theriverjordan

We had never seen it.  God, what a beautiful movie.  Why don’t we make more movies about our history? Joan Micklin Silver was such a great filmmaker, taking on Big Subjects with a light touch.  The performances are gorgeous.  Ms. Kane and Ms. Roberts, always great, of…

carrieandtracy

Gett Out.

davidehrlich

poetic cinema is carol kane coming to america and stealing all of her cheating husband’s money from under his nose.

eely

felt myself leaning forward whenever bernstein & gitl were on opposite sides of a table. their pull!! joan micklin silver has that spark that’s present in all her films. impossible to forget them. you want to take your time packing up.

Laura

imagine fumbling 1975 carol kane. imagine doing that

lubchansky

A fascinating movie about the American Dream, and a woman forced against her will into "modernity." Reminds me of a pre-code melodrama as much as anything made outside the era - the concern to the immigrant experience in turn of the century NYC! And Carol Kane is as good as…

🔮 dana danger 🔮

Truly something special - just in awe at the fact that this was the debut feature film of Joan Micklin Silver because of how much this film feels so lived in, especially with showing an entire American subculture on the screen. There is a lot worth talking about with…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸