Kenneth Van Sickle

Drawing on her time at the Village Voice, Joan Micklin Silver’s prescient ensemble drama about the death of independent journalism ripples with a laid-back charm. This long goodbye to the counterculture dodges straight-up nostalgia to show what life was really like for the women of the underground.

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.