Very Recent History: 'Desperately Seeking Susan'

“The other thing that was so crucial was that we filmed it all in New York. We were filming at the end of 1984, and New York was still coming out of the 1970s bankruptcy crisis. Nothing was getting renovated or repaired. There was no money. So it still had that grit. If it was in the ’90s, they would have said: ‘Go film it in Toronto. Toronto looks just like New York.’ It doesn’t. When you look at the background people and the faces, that is New York and you don’t get it in Toronto and you don’t get it in L.A. either.”
-Director Susan Seidelman looks back at Desperately Seeking Susan on the film’s 25th anniversary.