What I thought, what I feel, what I know

[sovay]

spatch just had to tell me that Joan Micklin Silver has died and I never wrote about Crossing Delancey (1988). It was one of the movies I meant to rewatch and write about because I loved it so much that I had trouble putting words around it and then 2020 kept happening and I didn't write about so many things. I didn't write about Between the Lines (1977). I haven't yet seen Hester Street (1975). Everything about this past year feels like unfinished business. I knew at the new year that it wouldn't change like a fingersnap overnight, but I missed a window to tell an artist—even just for the record of history—how much her art meant to me when she was around to hear it and I strongly believe that is the sort of thing a person should do; so many artists don't get the chance to find out.

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[lauradi7dw]

I haven't seen Between the Lines, but saw Hester Street big screen when it was new. That might be true of Crossing Delancey as well, but there were still second run theaters then (including the Somerville), so it might have been a little later.