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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Seidelman again turns downtown New York into a scruffy, fashion-forward playground, with a restless heroine, offbeat encounters, and a buoyant punk-adjacent sense of self-invention.
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Why this pick
Its low-budget Manhattan texture and candid attention to an ambitious young woman’s friendships, compromises, and precarious independence closely echo Smithereens’ unsentimental intimacy.
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Why this pick
A raw, music-charged New York story about two young women pushing back against prescribed lives; it shares Smithereens’ grimy streets, DIY energy, and yearning for escape.
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Why this pick
This wandering downtown portrait trades plot for alienated drift, empty city spaces, and a young outsider’s search for a role—an especially close match for Smithereens’ fractured urban mood.
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Why this pick
Another essential no-wave-era New York film, following a young woman through work, desire, and danger with a cool, street-level visual style and quietly unnerving independence.
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01 / THE STORY
Wren (Susan Berman) is a runaway (dependent) from New Jersey who has come to New York City in the hopes of becoming a figure in the punk rock scene, only to find that the movement is now centered in Los Angeles. Wren finds herself relegated to sneaking into the city's remaining punk hot spot, the Peppermint Lounge, to try to ingratiate herself with the bands that play there, in the hopes that one of them will take her on as a groupie. She also engages in a campaign to litter the city with photocopied pictures of herself bearing the legend "WHO IS THIS?" in an attempt to generate mystique. Though she works part-time at a xerox shop by day, Wren nominally uses her position there to surreptitiously print out her fliers, and supplements her lifestyle by Robbery women in the subway.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Wren
Ed
Cecile
