Performance

Crossing Delancey

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Joan Micklin Silver’s 1988 romantic comedy, written by Susan Sandler from her own play, maps a familiar New York geography: the push and pull between the Lower East Side’s inherited routines and a self-fashioned life. Amy Irving plays a bookstore clerk caught between a charismatic author and a traditional match arranged through family ties; Peter Riegert is the steady counterweight. The film has become a small record of late-1980s Manhattan street life, and its clear-eyed attention to class and community gives the romance real stakes. Screening at the Museum of the Moving Image is followed by a Q&A with Sandler.