Her recollections are the catalyst for ‘Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls,’ Seidelman’s new memoir.
Director Susan Seidelman’s new memoir is called “Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls.” Susan Seidelman was a city person — something that’s evident if you’ve seen her films like “Desperately Seeking Susan” or “She-Devil.”
Raised in Pennsylvania, Seidelman headed to New York for film school in the 1970s and began her career when there were relatively few women in the director’s chair. Her debut, “Smithereens,” was released in 1982 and was the first U.S. indie film to compete at Cannes for the Palme d’Or. But it was her second movie, “Desperately Seeking Susan,” the screwball comedy starring Rosanna Arquette andin a case of mistaken identity, that would become iconic.
In the film, which was ahead of its time, the protagonist, Wren, excels at self-promotion despite not doing much of anything. She plasters photocopies of her face around town in a way that’s not too different from blasting selfie after selfie on Instagram today. “As I say in the book, when we started filming, the first day we were filming was on St. Mark’s Place, which was probably the heart of the East Village, St. Mark’s and 2nd Avenue. No one really paid attention to her. We just filmed,” Seidelman recalls. “Maybe a few people might have known who she was because she did have, from her first album, some stuff on MTV, but it wasn’t mass popular.”
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