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Aug. 22nd, 2010
an old favourite
Aug. 22nd, 2010 11:43 pmI knew I wanted to watch a movie with dinner, but I wasn't quite sure what. Nothing I could find seemed just right. Then, as I was clicking through some options on Netflix, I saw "Crossing Delancy".
I *love* this movie, but I've never been able to find it on DVD. It's a great, funny love story, with Peter Riegert (not often a leading man in a romantic role, but an actor I really appreciate) with Amy Irving playing a pretty, nervous, and a wannabe-sophisticate NY bookseller and Jeroen Krabbe as a slick, manipulative Dutch author. But the show is totally stolen by Reizl Bozyk as her scheming and calculating--but loving--grannie (Bozyk was a huge star of the Yiddish stage in NYC and before that in Europe and South America, but this was the only movie she ever made).
It's comfort food for the mind; it was just the movie I needed to see this evening--a good mixture of comedy, romance, and the familiar. Mekheye! Perfect!
I *love* this movie, but I've never been able to find it on DVD. It's a great, funny love story, with Peter Riegert (not often a leading man in a romantic role, but an actor I really appreciate) with Amy Irving playing a pretty, nervous, and a wannabe-sophisticate NY bookseller and Jeroen Krabbe as a slick, manipulative Dutch author. But the show is totally stolen by Reizl Bozyk as her scheming and calculating--but loving--grannie (Bozyk was a huge star of the Yiddish stage in NYC and before that in Europe and South America, but this was the only movie she ever made).
It's comfort food for the mind; it was just the movie I needed to see this evening--a good mixture of comedy, romance, and the familiar. Mekheye! Perfect!