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Susan Seidelman, a graduate of NYU Grad Film School, began her career in the 1980s when Smithereens became the first American independent film to be accepted into the Cannes Film Festival. Her next movie, Desperately Seeking Susan, starring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette, was a critical and commercial success. She has directed dozens of other films starring actors such as Meryl Streep, Brooke Shields, and Sally Field, as well as the first four episodes of Sex and the City. She lives in New Jersey.

Susan Seidelman

Film

Three Great Things: Susan Seidelman

Barry Sonnenfeld’s book <a href="https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/barry-sonnenfeld/barry-sonnenfeld-call-your-mother/9780316415613/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker</a> is now out through Hachette Books. Sonnenfeld is a filmmaker and writer who broke into the film industry as the cinematographer on the Coen Brothers’ first three films: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, and Miller’s Crossing. He also was the director of photography on Throw Mamma from the Train, Big, When Harry Met Sally, and Misery. Sonnenfeld made his directorial debut with The Addams Family in 1991, and has gone on to direct a number of films including Addams Family Values, Get Shorty, and the first three Men in Blacks. His television credits include Pushing Daisies, for which he won an Emmy, and most recently Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. (Photo by Sasha Erwitt.)

Barry Sonnenfeld

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