Film
Hester Street + The Frontier Experience
- 4:15PM
Intro by writer Shonni Enelow
Joan Micklin Silver
With Carol Kane, Steven Keats, Paul Freedman
1975, 92min, 35mm
This touching, turn-of-the-century-set immigrant’s tale explores the experiences of a shy young Jewish woman (Carol Kane in a Best Actress Oscar-nominated performance) caught between Old and New World traditions as she adjusts to life on New York’s Lower East Side. Through evocative black and white cinematography, a screenplay comprised largely of subtitled Yiddish, and meticulous historical detail, Joan Micklin Silver offers a vivid portrait of 1890s Jewish life.
Preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive
Barbara Loden
1975, 25min, 16mm
Wanda director Barbara Loden evokes the hardscrabble existence of a scrappy pioneer woman living on the Kansas prairie in this short scripted by Joan Micklin Silver.
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