Susan Seidelman

Jun 27, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | Jonathan Lethem |Daniel Garber |Richard F. Shepard |Susan Seidelman

Internal Lives: Annie Baker on Janet Planet For a playwright, making their feature directorial debut comes with a certain degree of anticipatory hype, and the results are evaluated with a fine-toothed comb to make sure they aren’t too “wordy” or “stagey.” As with David Mamet’s House of Games, Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count on Me, John Patrick Shanley’s Joe Versus the Volcano or ​​Celine Song’s Past Lives, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s Janet Planet should put any fears to...

Jun 27, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | Susan Seidelman

Back to selectionSusan Seidelman, February 2024 (photo by Matthew Rettenmund) by Susan Seidelman in Issues, Reflectionson Jun 27, 2024 Smithereens, Summer 2024, Susan Sideman In an excerpt from her new memoir, director Susan Seidelman reflects on the beginnings of her breakthrough 1982 feature Smithereens. bad girls (donna summer) I started to notice a certain type of girl hanging around the downtown club scene. I won’t call her a groupie, but she had elements of that.

Jun 18, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Susan Seidelman |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |

An interesting read for anyone curious about the film industry. A memoir from the veteran director of Smithereens, Desperately Seeking Susan, and other films. In her first book, Seidelman offers a revealing peek into her four-decade career in Hollywood.

Jun 11, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Susan Seidelman

In the spring of 1984, when Desperately Seeking Susan was greenlit, there was only one actor attached, Rosanna Arquette, who had been brought on board by the producers. To put together the rest of the cast, we hired two young casting directors, Risa Bramon and Billy Hopkins, whose experience up until that point had been casting for the Ensemble Studio Theatre. This would be their first job working on a movie. Everyone’s concern was to find the right actor for the role of Susan.

Feb 16, 2024 | talkhouse.com | Susan Seidelman

Three Great Things is Talkhouse’s series in which artists tell us about three things they absolutely love. To mark the February 16 and 18 screenings at Metrograph of Susan Seidelman’s 1987 comedy Making Mr. Right, a modern screwball comedy starring Ann Magnuson and John Malkovich which was Seidelman’s follow-up to Desperately Seeking Susan, the legendary writer-director shared some of the things she loves the most in her life.