Seeing Green says, go see Romance and Cigarettes, the new film by Park Slope’s very own and beloved John Turturro.

Brooklyn-born and Park Slope resident John Turturro wrote and directed the film Romance and Cigarettes, currently showing at the Film Forum
in Manhattan. The film was deemed not releasable by Sony Pictures, and
held up almost two years; it is now distributed by Turturro himself.
His previous film, Iluminata, about a playwright struggling
to produce his new play, was no more mainstream than this one, and we
should be grateful for the continued exercise of Turturro’s lively
imagination.

This is an extraordinarily original, highly entertaining and very
funny film featuring a stellar cast (James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon,
Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Mary-Louise Parker
among others, many of whom also appear in his previous film) and a
supporting cast of sundry blue-collar-type singer/dancers, having the
time of their lives in a bawdy (is it ever) kind-of-musical with oldie songs you thought you’d forgotten (try Connie Francis’s Scapricciatiello (Do You Love Me Like You Kiss Me).