Crossing Delancey

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Crossing Delancey

Q&A actor Peter Riegert and actress Amy Irving

Celebrating Joan Micklin Silver: A Pioneering Filmmaker

In the early 1970s, Joan Micklin Silver, a blossoming television writer/director, was ready to make her first feature film, Hester Street. Studio heads praised her credits but insisted that women were “one more problem” they didn’t need and that Jewish films would never reach a general audience. So with the support of her husband, Raphael Silver, who raised the film’s $400,000 budget and became the film’s producer, Joan Micklin Silver made and released Hester Street, to critical acclaim—it grossed over $5 million in the United States (an unheard-of amount for a small indie film), garnered her a Writers Guild nomination for Best Screenplay, and earned Carol Kane an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Micklin Silver, one of the country’s premier independent film directors, continued to defy film industry insiders for over 40 years. We’re thrilled to host her Jewish trilogy—Hester Street, Crossing Delancey, and A Fish in the Bathtub—and look forward to having her and other special guests here at the JBFC.

Crossing Delancey

Micklin Silver’s modern-day Jewish fairy tale, complete with a fairy godmother/yenta grandmother/bubba (Reizl Bozyk) and a dashing, down-to-earth Prince Charming/pickle man (played divinely by Peter Riegert), becomes more delightful with each viewing. Thirty-something Isabelle “Izzy” Grossman (Amy Irving, in an enchanting performance) spends way too much time (according to her bubba) overworking at a swanky uptown bookstore, or with the married, narcissistic writer Anton (Jeroen Krabbé). But leave it to Bubba and her Lower East Side kibbitzing cohorts to find a way for Izzy to meet her pickle prince.

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Q&A actor Peter Riegert and actress Amy Irving
Monday, Mar. 27 2017, 6:30
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Peter Riegert has been acting, writing, directing and producing for nearly 45 years. His movies include: Animal House, Local Hero, Crossing Delancey, Chilly Scenes of Winter, Coldblooded, Utz, Oscar, Passed Away, The Mask, Traffic, White Irish Drinkers, Middleton and the short films The Walk and The Response, which received the ABA Silver Gavel and was short listed for an Academy nomination for live-action short. Television credits include: The Sopranos, Damages, Gypsy, Barbarians at the Gate, Concealed Enemies, Law and Order SVU, The Good Wife, and One Tree Hill. On Broadway he was in The Old Neighborhood, An American Daughter, The Nerd, and Dance with Me. Off Broadway includes: Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Birthday Party, Mountain Language, Isn’t it Romantic, and A Rosen by Any Other Name. His directorial debut was the Academy nominated short By Courier, followed by his first feature, King of the Corner, with Isabella Rossellini, Eli Wallach, Rita Moreno, Beverly D'Angelo, Eric Bogosian and Dominic Chianese. Books on Tape include: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon; Where I’m Calling From, (11 short stories) by Raymond Carver; Black Money and The Chill by Ross McDonald and The Lawgiver by Herman Wouk. He played Oscar Newman in David Simon's mini-series for HBO, Show Me a Hero, with Oscar Isaac and Catherine Keener, based on Lisa Belkin's non-fiction book of the same name, directed by Paul Haggis. American Pastoral will be his next film, with Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connolly, Dakota Fanning, David Strathairn, and Uzo Aduba, directed by Ewan McGregor and adapted from Philip Roth's novel by John Romano. He will be seen as Artie Goodman in the 3rd season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Amy Irving's credits include, Broadway: The Coast of Utopia, The Three Sisters, Broken Glass (Outer Critics, Drama Desk nominations), Heartbreak House (Drama Desk nomination), Amadeus. Other theatre: Martha Clark’s Cheri, The Vagina Monologues, The Heidi Chronicles, Blithe Spirit, Romeo and Juliet, The Road to Mecca (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination), Ghosts, Celadine, A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop, Waters Of March, Glass Menagerie, Motherhood Out Loud, A Little Night Music, We Live Here. Films: Carrie, The Fury, Voices, Honeysuckle Rose, The Competition, Yentl (Academy Award nomination), Micki and Maude, Rumplestiltskin, Crossing Delancey (Golden Globe nomination), A Show of Force, Benefit of the Doubt, Carried Away, I’m Not Rappaport, Deconstructing Harry, The Confession, Bossa Nova, Tuck Everlasting, 13 Conversations About One Thing, Traffic, Hide and Seek, Adam. Television Credits: Anastasia (Golden Globe nomination), Law & Order SVU, Alias, House, Zero Hour, The Good Wife.

This film is part of the Westchester Jewish Film Festival 2017 series.



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