Joan Micklin Silver, Director of âCrossing Delancey,â Dies at 85
She broke barriers for women, directing seven feature films, including âHester Streetâ and âBetween the Lines,â as well as TV movies.
Joan Micklin Silver in the late 1970s while filming an adaptation of the Ann Beattie novel “Chilly Scenes of Winter.” She had a love-hate relationship with movie studios.Credit.United Artists, via Photofest
Published Jan. 1, 2021Updated Jan. 4, 2021
Joan Micklin Silver, the filmmaker whose first feature, âHester Street,â expanded the marketplace for American independent film and broke barriers for women in directing, died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan. She was 85.