Between the Lines • The Next Reel

The Next Reel Film Podcast · Feb 17, 2022 · 51m

“We are still about telling the truth. We are still about something big here, and not many people can say that, man.”

After her success with Hester Street, it seemed fitting that director Joan Micklin Silver would make an ensemble film about a group of journalists at an alternative paper. She’d worked at The Village Voice, so clearly knew that world. Her writers did as well. Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we wrap up our ‘Journalist’ series and kick off our ‘John Heard’ series with Micklin Silver’s 1977 film Between the Lines.

There’s a lot going on between the lines in Between the…