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From "Babettes Feast" to "Ratatouille" to "Tampopo," the essential films all about feasting.

Joan Micklin Silver obituary Ryan Gilbey © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy A sensitivity to cultural differences, a playful looseness with actors, and a nose for the churn and thrust of interpersonal relationships were among the characteristics of the film-maker Joan Micklin Silver, who has died aged 85 of vascular dementia. She was 40 when she made her debut with Hester Street (1975), the story of a young Russian-Jewish woman arriving in late-19th-century New York only to struggle to match her husband’s aplomb in adapting to their adopted cultur...