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Skip to main content Desperately Seeking Susan Director Susan Seidelman on Casting Madonna and Shooting the Sex and the City Pilot
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For a certain generation of women, director Susan Seidelman’s second feature, “Desperately Seeking Susan,” is a formative text, an indelible record of New York in the ‘80s, from Madonna’s iconic hair bow to Rosanna Arquette’s spirited performance as the lead. With its cast of New York underground habitués, and fizzy pace set to the tune of Madonna’s “Into the Groove,” “Desperately Seeking Susan” was a fashion-forward change of pace from the teen comedies and slick action fare of the time.
Girl meets carnival ride, girl gets carnival ride in the provocative French film
“Jumbo” (Darkstar Pictures), starring Noémie Merlant (“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”) as a shy young woman who becomes erotically fixated on the bright colors and flashing lights of a Tilt-a-Whirl at the theme park where she works late nights on the cleaning crew. Director Zoé Wittock’s Sundance hit has drawn critical acclaim around the world for its intuitive handling of an unusual love story.
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“Days of the Bagnold Summer” (Greenwich/Kino Lorber), featuring original music by Belle & Sebastian; Sophie Deraspe’s modern take on
Nine Gems from Cannon Films!
Marvelous Videos presents nine gems from Cannon Films…
If you grew up in the 80s, chances are you became (intentionally or unintentionally) familiar with a production company called The Cannon Group, Inc. They were responsible for an influx of action pictures throughout the 1980s that featured to some of the most iconic action heroes we know to this day, including Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone and even Sho Kosugi.
This is because the producers recognized the profitability of the “B-movie” and knew combining the right elements would create a memorable work. Well, with so many of their pictures dominating the video market, some were bound to fly under the radar. Thanks to the folks at Marvelous Videos, here are nine of Cannon’s gems…
Lifeforce: A Film Only Cannon Could Have Made
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at a defining moment in Cannon Films canon…
What’s the craziest mo-fo of a film you’ve ever seen? There have been plenty of odd films. The beauty of cinema is in its variety. I recently wrote about a slightly more critically acclaimed film Cannon made called Runaway Train. I suggested it may perhaps have been Cannon’s crowning glory. It’s certainly an excellent film and came with the sort of acclaim not often associated with Cannon (and indeed not associated with the film I’m about to discuss).