General Recommendation: Joan Micklin Silver

Was thinking about female directors the guys need to cover, and (though she is probably too small) wanted to give love to Joan. Feels like a much less problematic Allen, more sentimental Elaine Mae and more down-to-earth Albert Brooks.

Hester Street is a great drama about Jewish Imigrants with a baby, Carol Kane

Between the Lines and Chilly Scenes of Winter are her twin attempts to make John Heard a leading man, and both are shockingly modern in their attempts to deal with romance and "battles of the sexes"

Crossing Delancey is a thick slice of New York cheese Pizza that feels more in line with the best of Nora Ephron.

After this becomes much more of a TV director, and I've not yet seen the three movies made after, but heard they are relativly well liked