No Wave Cameos in 'Desperately Seeking Susan'

Other great cameos -- The Clash have a blink-&-you'll-miss'em cameo in Scorcese's "King of Comedy" (standing on corner) -- Richie Stotts of the Plasmatics shows up at a Gallery party in "9 & 1/2 Weeks" -- Bauhaus play in the opening credits of "The Hunger," and Anne Magnuson (again) plays the harlot Catherine Deneuve and Bowie take home from the club and slice open.

i love this movie.

Wow, Adele Bertai (from the Bloods) was in it.

it did a really good job of creating a pastiche of the city

what a bunch of weirdos. including the guy in a green t shirt, leaning on his elbow, behind the dancer, at 0:48-49

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXmL_WtmQbc

Nice! What bands were playing? I don't recognise any, who is the big D Boon looking guy?

I love watching footage like this, a few years ago there was a Warhol exhibition in London and they had separate little screens all playing different episodes of Andy Warhol's TV, early video footage of Konk etc: I was in heaven.

the big d boon looking guy is a girl! guitarist in a band called science also performing that day were Pierce Turner, Liquid Liquid, Essential Bop, and Certain General. the whole concert is on u tube "ave b is the place to be" came across this looking for something else and thought 'hey I was there" and sure enough there's my no wave cameo.

Great! I only have heard of Liquid Liquid and Certain General, years ago and old flatmate of mine maintained that Kurt Cobain ripped them off for Polly.

the story of lincoln swados, the guy right at the start of the video -

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/18/magazine/the-story-of-a-street-person.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

i'm tempted to show this to my students, but they probably won't like it that much. the plot is kind of flaky (and it kind of pales next to similar stuff like something wild, after hours in terms of filmmaking energy) but it's hella fun.

A disappointing second viewing, my first since 1994. Why is the first half hour so slow? Why are the line readings flat? Madonna remains as delightful as ever, and Aidan Quinn -- damn, I remember him as sexy as fuck, but he blew everyone off screen whenever he walked in.

I also re-watched it recently (first time in a long time), and it didn't really hit the way I remembered / wanted it too. The cast is great, and Quinn is hot stuff.

39 years old today

streaming on Prime if you are inclined to celebrate accordingly

this movie is oddly charming, for a screwball farce that never even gets close to fizziness. all coincidences and setup without the payoffs you'd expect when all these lives start crashing together. but the performances are really winning and there's this languid, observational quality that gives a lot of love to the 80s NYC locations.

Rewatched this a few months ago, for the first time in maybe 2 decade, and I love it a lot. Good comfort food movie, imo. Although, as you mention, the ending whiffs a little. It didn't bother me though. I hadn't clocked Giancarlo Esposito on previous watches, and he's not mentioned in this thread yet, so

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKqO5WeXQAAmdgg.jpg