Smithereens // The Little Reliance Cinema
Smithereens // The Little Reliance Cinema
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In downtown '80s New York, a New Jersey runaway teenager Wren (played by Susan Berman) is aggressively pursuing her dream to become famous. Soon we come to see that everybody else around her in the underground USA post-punk scene is equally desperate to do the same.
As Wren finds herself hitting one wall after another and is kicked out of her apartment, the object of her desire, a moderately successful recording artist played by real-time punk rocker Richard Hell, keeps giving her the runaround and his creepy flatmate takes a shine to her. One night on a subway train Wren meets Paul (Brad Rijn) from Montana. Although he's living in a van parked in a vacant lot, he seems different from the others. ...
The film was written, produced, directed, and edited by Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan) herself a member of Manhatten's creative community: she recruited her friends to play many of the parts and also performed some roles herself.
It captures the early-'80s Manhattan scene, with squatted city lofts, fire escapes, glittery boots and unique new wave music culture, in what is a now remarkable time capsule of New York history, with a terrific soundtrack to match. Speaking to Vogue magazine last year, Seidelman said the film made her feel nostalgic for a lost Manhatten, "this was a place for aspiring artists or students or aspiring wannabes. Now parts of Brooklyn have been priced out as a place for this generation. But there’s always going to be people like Wren".
Smithereens signaled a breakthrough in Seidelman's career when it was selected to screen in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. However, the film is pretty hard to find and so this special screening at The Reliance bar & restaurant will be on lo-fi VHS!
There will be an introduction to the film before the screening and a chance to discuss it at the end, over a drink of course.
Susan Seidelman / 1982 / USA / 1 hr 33 minutes
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The Reliance, 76-78 North St, LS2 7PN Leeds
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Smithereens // The Little Reliance Cinema
From GBP 5.00