Collections/February 2025

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver

One of the greatest American filmmakers to emerge in the 1970s, Joan Micklin Silver drew on her background as the daughter of Russian-born Jewish parents to write and direct beautifully bittersweet portraits of women, immigrants, and marginalized communities. With profound empathy, her films vividly evoke specific times and places: New York’s turn-of-the-century Lower East Side ( Hester Street ), the whirlwind office of a Boston alt-weekly newspaper ( Between the Lines , inspired by her time as a writer for the Village Voice ), or the intergenerational cultural melting pot of 1980s Manhattan ( Crossing Delancey ). Brimming with humor, Silver’s films are rich with insight into the experience of finding one’s place in a rapidly changing world.

6 films — 3 on the Channel, 3 unavailable