Rachel Syme interviews the filmmaker Susan Seidelman, whose forthcoming memoir, “Desperately Seeking Something,” confronts the hurdles that female directors face.
The film’s director, the seventy-one-year-old Susan Seidelman, directed two of my other favorite films of the eighties—a time when the number of women helming feature films could be counted on one hand. Seidelman grew up in a Philadelphia suburb where, she told me recently, “everyone looked the same.” She attended film school at N.Y.U. and filled her movies with the kinds of fashionable and funky strivers with whom she hung out downtown.
As he’s having this conversation with me, I’m thinking, Oh, my God, I can’t believe this opportunity is slipping through my fingers. Then, at that very moment, this British man and a woman sitting at the table next to us turned to me and said, “I’m sorry to interfere, but we happen to be sales agents. If you let us represent you, we will front you the money for all those things.” Wow. And from Cannes you got distribution? Yes, New Line Cinema.
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