Desperately Seeking Susan and Desperately Seeking Something

Desperately Seeking Susan / Desperately Seeking Something: Screening & Book Signing with Director & Author Susan Seidelman

Join us for a journey back to the quirky, stylish '80s with a screening of the comedy-drama DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN followed by a book signing with its director and author, Susan Seidelman.

In collaboration with Golden Notebook, copies of Seidelman's brand new book Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls will be available for purchase.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Seidelmen shares a funny and insightful first-person story of her life from her Twiggy-obsessed girlhood to the Madonna-mania of the 80's and beyond in her memoir.

ABOUT THE FILM: Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) only knows Susan (Madonna) through reading personal ads seeking her—until a bump on the head leads to a bout of amnesia and her taking on Susan's identity. Roberta quickly finds herself caught up in a plot involving murder, stolen Egyptian earrings, and the mob, as well as a romance with a friend (Aidan Quinn) of the guy who places the classifieds. A spin on Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating, this screwball romp was mainstream America's introduction to the '80s underground Bohemian scene in New York and to the Material Girl herself, and features appearances by Ann Magnuson, John Turturro, Richard Hell, John Lurie, and more.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER / AUTHOR: A graduate of NYU Grad Film School, began her career in the 1980s when SMITHEREENS became the first American Independent film to be accepted into the Cannes Film Festival. Her next movie, DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN, starring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette, was a critical and commercial success. She has directed dozens of other films starring actors such as Meryl Streep, Brooke Shields, and Sally Field.

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