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Joan Micklin Silver United States, 1975. Carol Kane was nominated for an Oscar® as the wide-eyed protagonist in Joan Micklin Silver’s miraculous first feature. A milestone in American independent cinema, this bittersweet, Yiddish slice-of-life explores the tussle between tradition and assimilation for immigrant Jews on the Lower East Side.
Hester Street meticulously reconstructs this bygone haven for Jewish immigrants to masterfully paint one woman’s journey to assimilation and her arrival at the crossroads of tradition and modernity. A Cohen Media Group release. Restored in 4K in 2020 from the 35mm original negative by Cohen Film Collection at DuArt Media Services.
Sep 14, 2021 · Joan Micklin Silver's Hester Street is a Revivals selection of the 59th New York Film Festival. Learn more here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2021/Among the ...
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Hester Street. Hester Street is a 1975 American independent drama film adapted from the 1896 novella Yekl by Abraham Cahan, written and directed by Joan Micklin Silver and starring Steven Keats and Carol Kane. Jake, formerly Yankel (Keats), is a Jewish immigrant to the Lower East Side who has assimilated to American culture and works at a factory.
1975 · 1 hr 30 min. PG. Drama · Romance. Gitl and her son arrive on the Lower East side of New York in 1896 to join her husband Jake. While Jake, who has job in a sweatshop and an English-speaking girlfriend, has completely embraced America, Gitl clings to her old country ways. Starring: Steven Keats Carol Kane Mel Howard Dorrie Kavanaugh ...
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Heretofore playboy Polish immigrant Jake (Steven Keats) arrives at Ellis Island to collect his wife Gitl (Carol Kane, in her Academy Award-nominated role) and son (Paul Freedman), in Joan Micklin Silver's Hester Street, 1975.
