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  • Tales of the Immigrant City – HESTER STREET with Special Guest Molly Haskell

    The New York Historical 170 Central Park West, New York, NY, United States

    HESTER STREET Joan Micklin Silver, 1975, 89 min With Carole Kane, Steven Keats About the film: In this newly restored independent classic adapted from Abraham Cahan 1896 Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, a newly arrived Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe struggles to find her footing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side as her …

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  • Tales of the Immigrant City – IN AMERICA with special guest Colum McCann

    The New York Historical 170 Central Park West, New York, NY, United States

    IN AMERICA Jim Sheridan, 2002, 105 minutes With: Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Sarah Bolger, Djimon Hounsou With special guest speaker, Colum McCann About the film: Set in early-1980s New York, In America follows an Irish immigrant family arriving illegally in Hell's Kitchen, carrying grief, hope, and the fragile promise of a new beginning. Through the …

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