Members Only: Desperately Seeking Susan

Director: Susan Seidelman, Susan Seidelman, Susan Seidelman, Susan Seidelman

1985 / 105min / 35mm

A trailblazer of American independent cinema—her 1982 feature debut Smithereens was the first US indie to play in competition at Cannes—Susan Seidelman has, in her more than 40-year career in film and television, remained remarkably attuned to the zeitgeist, whether casting rising star Madonna in her 1985 Desperately Seeking Susan or setting the tone for the cultural phenomenon that was Sex in the City with her pilot episode. Seidelman’s new memoir, Desperately Seeking Something, discusses both these coups and much more, and we’re excited to welcome her to Metrograph for this Member’s Only book launch event, accompanied by a screening of her beloved downtown time capsule Susan.