In honor of Women’s History Month, Variety‘s Pat Saperstein talks to director Susan Seidelman, who’s diving back into television with a project hatched during the pandemic, discussing what was like working as a woman director in the ‘80s, shooting the Sex and the City pilot, casting Madonna for Desperately Seeking Susan, and much more. Read More
Desperately Seeking Susan was released on this day 35 years ago.
Directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna, Desperately Seeking Susan was Madonna’s first major screen role and one of her best performances ever. Read More
In an exclusive news today, the Hollywood Reporter reveals that Universal has picked up Blond Ambition, the script by Elyse Hollander that topped the 2016 Black List -the industry ranking of Hollywood’s most-liked yet unproduced screenplays. Read More
The first Central London screening of Strike A Pose will take place at Clapham Picturehouse, bought to you by OUT at Clapham. Read More
Metrograph – the unique experience of stepping into a special, curated world of cinema harkening back to the great New York movie theaters of the 1920s, will run a special Madonna retrospective from August 27 to September 1, 2016. Read More
Another Madonna movie will be available in Blu Ray format when Olive Films will be releasing Dangerous Games on October 27, 2015. Read More
Back in 1984 Carrie Rickey was on the Desperately Seeking Susan set and interviewed the producers, director Susan Seidelman, and the movie stars Rosanna Arquette and Madonna. Last week, in anticipation of the 30th anniversary of the film’s release on March 29, 2015, Carrie spoke again with everyone but Madonna – “who’s busy with her new tour”, Carrie explains – about the movie and their memories of two young women out to take a much grittier Manhattan. Read More
