Performance

Crossing Delancey

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Joan Micklin Silver’s 1988 romantic comedy traces a Lower East Side bookseller caught between downtown tastes and the older-world matchmaking of her grandmother, mapping a New York where neighborhoods still argue with each other. Adapted by Susan Sandler from her play, the film treats assimilation, class, and desire as daily logistics rather than plot twists. Amy Irving and Peter Riegert ground it in plain talk and small decisions. At Museum of the Moving Image, the screening is followed by a Q&A with Sandler, placing the film back in the city it observes.