[NY Programmer Choice]

The New York romantic comedy is as ubiquitous and essential to the city's cinematic landscape as the crime saga or historical melodrama. Directed by Joan Micklin Silver and written by Susan Sandler, Crossing Delancey deserves to be mentioned alongside the greatest of them. With a devoted and ever-expanding fan base, Crossing Delancey is a quintessential New York romance and with an uncommon cultural specificity. Amy Irving stars as Izzy, a single, cosmopolitan woman of the eighties who works at an upscale, Upper West Side bookshop. However, her personality - and personal time - are divided between this glamorous life and the Jewish, working-class world of the Lower East Side. Her romantic aspirations are caught up with her professional ones, so when her meddlesome but loving bubbe (grandmother) hires a matchmaker to fix her up with Sam, a neighborhood pickle salesman, she rejects him in favor of a famous author trying to woo her. But she can't get Sam out of her head.

Full Program Notes

Michael Koresky
Senior Curator of Film
Museum of the Moving Image
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Located in Astoria, Queens, in New York City, Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) is the only museum in the U.S. devoted to exploring the central technology of our present moment. With exhibitions and screenings on the art, history, technique, and science of the moving image, MoMI presents the real and imagined worlds of our past, present, and future.