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Hester Street is a 1975 American comedy drama film [2] based on Abraham Cahan's 1896 novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, and was adapted and directed by Joan Micklin Silver. The film stars Steven Keats and Carol Kane , who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.
Silver's first feature film as a director, Hester Street (1975), was based on a short story by Abraham Cahan, [10] and produced by Midwest Films, a company Silver founded with her husband. [5] It was produced on the relatively small budget of $320,000.
She gained recognition for her role in Hester Street (1975), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She became known in the 1970s and 1980s in films such as Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Annie Hall (1977), When a Stranger Calls (1979), The Princess Bride (1987), Scrooged (1988) and Flashback (1990).
American art house cinemas once played foreign-language movies exclusively. Then this black and white portrait of Jewish life in 1890s New York by Joan Micklin Silver helped spark a shift.
Joan Micklin Silver, the evocative filmmaker who brilliantly transformed a gritty mid-1970s Manhattan into turn-of-the-century Jewish tenement life for “Hester Street,” has died at the age of 85.
There have been many wonderful Jewish films that aren’t about the Holocaust that explore what it means to be Jewish, including Hester Street (1975), Annie Hall (1977), Yentl (1983), Crossing ...
Highest-grossing films of 1975 Rank Title Distributor ... Hester Street: ... Brenda Venus, Gordon Hanson, Geoffrey Land, Vince St. Cyr, Margaret Willey ...
Hester Street may refer to: Hester Street (Manhattan) , a street in the Lower East Side of the New York City Borough of Manhattan Hester Street (film) , a 1975 film based on Abraham Cahan's 1896 novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto