HESTER STREET
7:00
Tuesday, October 4
Screening followed by Q&A with star Carol Kane
Due to illness, Joan Micklin Silver will not be in attendance.
TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT ARE SOLD OUT.
A standby line will form an hour before showtime
(1974, Joan Micklin Silver) 1896 New York, and Steven Keats’ Yankel transforms himself into the all-American, beardless “Jake,” acquiring a home-grown girlfriend along the way – and then his sheitel-wearing wife Carol Kane (Oscar nomination) shows up on his doorstep, straight from the shtetl … and cultures collide, even as Doris Roberts offers salty advice, and non-pro Mel Howard timidly yearns from the sidelines. Despite its shoestring budget, a strikingly authentic look at late 19th century LES life. Post-film interview with star Carol Kane, moderated by Brian Rose, Professor of Film & TV, Fordham University. Archival 35mm print courtesy UCLA Film & Television Archive. Approx. 92 mins.
Reviews
“Beyond all the details there is the magnificent performance of Carol Kane as Gitl…by the end of the picture she is a triumphant bonfire.”
– The New York Times
"Joan Micklin Silver boasts one of the best filmographies of any American director of the Seventies…[Hester Street] re-creates, with low-budget ingenuity, the nineteenth-century Jewish Lower East Side and deftly conceals a modern fantasy of liberation under a welter of social detail and a touching emotional restraint.”
– Dan Sallitt, The Village Voice