Review preview for Hester Street
Silver makes us feel that this is an authentic piece of social history.
The Americanisation of Jewish immigrants in New York at the turn of the 20th century.
(Country: US; Year: 1975; Director: Joan Micklin Silver; Writer: Joan Micklin Silver, based on the story by Abraham Cahan; Stars: Carol Kane, Steven Keats, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Doris Roberts, Anna Berger, Ed Crowley, Paul Freedman, Sol Frieder, Lauren Frost, Martin Garner, Zane Lasky)
(Country: Turkey; Year: 1973; Director: Sedat Pakay)
Screening With Chameleon Street
Kummatty
Folkloric tale of a trickster bogeyman who descends upon a village in Malabar year after year.
(Country: India; Year: 1979; Director: Govindan Aravindan; Writer: Govindan Aravindan; Stars: Master Ashokan, Sivasankaran Divakaran, Kothara Gopalkrishnan, Ramunni, Vilasini Reema, Shanker, Vakkil, Kuttiyedathi Vilasini, Master Ashokan, Sivasankaran Divakaran, Kothara Gopalkrishnan, Ramunni, Vilasini Reema, Shanker, Vakkil)
Mississippi Masala
An Indian family is expelled from Uganda and move to Mississippi where the daughter falls in love with a black man, something their families have to reconcile themselves with.
(Country: US, UK; Year: 1991; Director: Mira Nair; Writer: Sooni Taraporevala; Stars: Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore, Charles S. Dutton, Joe Seneca, Ranjit Chowdhry, Mohan Gokhale, Mohan Agashe, Tico Wells, Yvette Hawkins, Anjan Srivastav, Dipti Suthar, Varsha Thaker, Ashok Lath)
Radio On
A man drives from London to Bristol upon learning of his brother’s suicide, seeking to learn more about the circumstances of his death, crossing paths with a string of eccentrics along the way.
(Country: UK, West Germany; Year: 1979; Director: Christopher Petit; Writer: Christopher Petit, Heidi Adolph; Stars: David Beames, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff, Andrew Byatt, Sue Jones-Davies, Sting, Sabina Michael, Katja Kersten, Paul Hollywood, Adrian Jones, Cyril Kent, Bernard Mistovski, Nina Pace, Joseph Riordan, David Squire)
