When Rosanna Arquette read the Desperately Seeking Susan script 40 years ago, she fell for her now iconic character, Roberta – a bored housewife who gets swept up into the life of the titular Susan, ...

Susan Seidelman is an advocate for what she calls the messy struggle. The movie and TV director, whose “Desperately Seeking Susan” is the great feminist screwball comedy of the ’80s and is enshrined ...

Joseph Ornelas is a former freelance features writer at Collider, where he explored the worlds of film and television through in-depth essays, lists, and analysis. Passionate about storytelling across ...

Susan Seidelman's memoir "Desperately Seeking Something" is out now. (Book cover courtesy St. Martin's Press; author photo courtesy Joan Vidal) Susan Seidelman was seven weeks into directing her first ...

Each year, the Library of Congress selects a new batch of culturally significant movies for preservation in the National Film Registry — and 2023's class includes a pick from a Montgomery County ...

It’s New York City, 1989. Susan Seidelman is in the delivery room, in labor with her son. “Siskel and Ebert” plays on the TV, and in between contractions, the two critics are tearing apart her new ...

(CNN) — Every now and then, a piece of pop culture will capture the perfect storm of talent, story and style to withstand the test of time. One such example is the 1985 comedy-drama “Desperately ...

Susan Seidelman was a city person — something that’s evident if you’ve seen her films like “Desperately Seeking Susan” or “She-Devil.” But after 43 years of living in New York, Seidelman moved to ...

The characters in Susan Seidelman’s movies are desperately trying to escape New Jersey. They see themselves in New York and never want to look back. If they’re already a New Yorker, making a trip to ...