From the Jewish Repertory Theater to the Movies: Screenwriter Susan Sandler on Crossing Delancey

When Joan Micklin Silver died on the last day of 2020, cinephiles mourned the passing of a major American filmmaker, a status to which she may have begun to ascend in late 2014, when IFC Center presented a 35mm screening of her third feature Chilly Scenes of Winter with its original title and the director’s preferred ending—the first time in perhaps a decade that the film had resurfaced in New York’s repertory scene. At that time, Vadim Rizov spoke to Silver, then in her late 70s, about her struggles to break into the film industry (“‘At that point in time, […] The post From the Jewish Repertory Theater to the Movies: Screenwriter Susan Sandler on Crossing Delancey first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

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From the Jewish Repertory Theater to the Movies: Screenwriter Susan Sandler on Crossing Delancey
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When Joan Micklin Silver died on the last day of 2020, cinephiles mourned the passing of a major American filmmaker, a status to which she may have begun to ascend in late 2014, when IFC Center presented a 35mm screening of her third feature Chilly Scenes of Winter with its original title and the director’s preferred ending—the first time in perhaps a decade that the film had resurfaced in New York’s repertory scene. At that time, Vadim Rizov spoke to Silver, then in her late 70s, about her struggles to break into the film industry (“‘At that point in time, […] The post From the Jewish Repertory Theater to the Movies: Screenwriter Susan Sandler on Crossing Delancey first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.