As the hipster kleptomaniac at the center of Josh Safdie’s adorable debut feature The Pleasure of Being Robbed, Eleonore Hendricks steals a lot of things, but mainly the audiences’ hearts. The twentysomething actress, despite her newfound indie cinema fame, still works at the video store Cinema Nolita and binges on way too much Lukas Moodysson. After just wrapping Eric Juhola’s short film The Nowhere Kids (a fictional speculation on Gotham Award nominee and Slamdance winner Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa), Hendricks is getting ready to begin production on Safdie’s new project, Go Get Some Rosemary. In the meantime, I caught up with her to chat about Barbara Loden’s Wanda, her extra special week of moviegoing and why she gave up listening to WFMU.

What films or television shows have you seen recently?

This past week was pretty unique, maybe the most special week for movie watching in all my life. Movie is life and life is movie. On Monday I ached with laughter watching two movies at Anthology Film Archives made by close girlfriends of mine, Creative Non-Fiction by Lena Dunham and a documentary called The Making Of Dealing by Sara Rossein. Then on Tuesday I worked at the video store, Cinema Nolita, where I celebrated the life one of our country’s finest men. Popped in a couple of Paul Newman movies, Sweet Bird Of Youth, and Cool Hand Luke, I watched these in intervals and side glances as I rung up my customers with their rentals. He deserves a full few days in front of the tube. On Thursday I kicked myself for missing a rerun screening of Ronnie Bronstein’s movie Frownland at BAM because of that damn Palin and Biden debate. I would have much rather agonized over Dore Mann’s character. Then on Friday at the IFC Center I watched, Benny Safdie’s Acquaintances of a Lonely John, along with the first and last 10 minutes of the movie I’m in, The Pleasure of Being Robbed by Josh Safdie - so those two are movies by my boyfriend and his brother, ok. To boot, through out the week I’ve been working on some production stuff for Josh and Benny’s next movie, Go Get Some Rosemary which starts filming Oct. 20^th- I’ll also be in that one, so will Ronnie. Trippy week, and right now I’m not quite straight on where the movie begins and where my life ends - or where the movie ends or where my life begun. But gosh, it feels good to be amongst friends and film.

What have you seen recently, other than films by your friends and collaborators, that stuck with you?

I recently watched Wanda, Barbara Loden is actor and director - her first and last film. Well, she had acted in other movies before but sadly she passed away before she could direct her next. Phew, this movie took my breath away. I’ll start crying and stop typing if I go too much into it. This movie struck a chord. Loden describes the life of a lost and wandering woman - it’s beautiful and ugly, simple and real - She’s one gutsy dame.

How do the films that you think of as “influences” affect your own style when acting?

This is something I’ve just realized, at the video store, my employee’s picks self features these movies: Wanda, Baby Doll by Elia Kazan, Streetwise by Martin Bell, Lilja 4-Ever, by Lukkas Moodyson, and Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains and Out of the Blue by Dennis Hopper. All of these movies star some poignant or powerful young female character or female actor- I feel a kinship to these young female actors right now in my life, I hope they’ve influenced my acting style.

Later in life, if my acting career develops, and if I’m still a video clerk I hope to replenish that shelf with movies like Gloria, A Woman Under the Influence by Cassevettes, Scorsese’s, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Felini’s La Strada, and Bergman’s Summer with Monika.

How often do you read fiction? Do you wish you read more?

Not nearly enough. But I have excuses: I have a finicky attention, I live close enough not to take a subway regularly, recently started riding my bicycle everywhere so when I could be home staying put - reading - I’d rather be out whizzing through the streets not reading traffic signals. Right now is a good time to read but I’m answering these questions. I probably won’t even proof read this interview. Yes, I wish I read more.

What would be your ideal literary adaptation and why?

I tend not to idealize literary adaptations.

How, if at all, has reading informed your acting?

It would be very difficult to act if I couldn’t read.

What are you listening to recently?

For the past several months I’ve put aside my love for WFMU, I’ve given up Shuffle, all I listen to is “Chances With Wolves” - hosted by yet another NYC comrade. It’s weekly 2 hour broadcast and pod cast on East Village Radio, provides you, the listener with the most beautifully haunting and hauntingly beautiful music ever made. http://chanceswithwolves.blogspot.com/. Check it out or check your head.

If you could collaborate with one musician on a film, who would it be and why?

I suppose it would have to be Penn Sultan, with anyone of his wonderful bands, “There Are Some Who Call Us Tim”, “Doggie, Hi Yippee” or “Last Good Tooth”. He is my best friend’s young brother, I love his music and I’ll allow the theme to come full circle - ‘family and friends making together makes it better’.

What would be the ideal pairing of filmmaker and musician for a concert film?

Bob Fosse and Black Flag.