Addressing contemporar...The ground-breaking first feature from the director of ORLANDO and THE TANGO LESSON, THE GOLD DIGGERS is a key film of e...Spy spoof revolving around the unlikely alliance of three eccentric characters and their mission to uncover government f...Since its release in 1980, Sally Potter's rewriting of Puccini's opera, La Boheme, has become a classic in feminist film...One of the earliest events to combine dance on film projected in juxtaposition with live performances by the same dancer...8mm footage of dancers each performing a single movement was projected onto a ground glass screen and refilmed on 16mm t...Double screen film of six children playing on the street below (three sets of twins).
One solution was to shoot at six frames a second, or even three. Sally Potter on BBC Talking Movies: How real life influenced The Roads Not Taken Posted 7th Apr in NEWS. Two teenage girls - Ginger and Rosa - are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politi...Michelangelo, an unseen schoolboy armed only with a mobile phone, goes behind the scenes at a New York fashion show duri...YES is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abka...Fegele (Christina Ricci), a Russian Jewish refugee working in a variety troupe in Paris just before the Second World War...THE TANGO LESSON is about a female filmmaker who discovers and falls in-love with the tango. You literally see people's eyes glaze over with exhaustion when the word flashes into the conversation.Originally I was trying to figure out how we could shoot this film without any lights, because there didn't seem to be enough money in the budget to have any. Someone she knew catches up to the train and wants to remind her of who she is and where she came from, possibly ruining what she wants for her future. Sally Potter made her first 8mm film aged fourteen. "Potter returned to filmmaking with her short film As director of the internationally distributed The novel had previously been considered impossible to adapt for the screen, because it took place over 400 years and followed a character whose sex changes from a man to a woman. To mark the release of Sally Potter’s black comedy, 'The Party', we look back at two of the British director’s earlier films streaming at SBS On Demand. 5 Best Sally Potter Movies. The Roads Not Taken follows 24 turbulent hours in the life of father and daughter Leo (Javier Bardem) and Molly (Elle Fa...Various individuals think theyâre coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results i...London, 1962. She has since written and directed seven feature films, as well as many short films (including THRILLER and PLAY) and a television series, and has directed opera (Carmen for the ENO in 2007) and other live work. I have come to the conclusion that I can't use that term in my work. Funding the feature proved difficult, and When asked whether she thought she would continue to work on feminist themes, Potter replied: One of cinema's more multifaceted personalities, director, writer, dancer, and performance … She is known for directing Orlando, which won the audience prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. [...] I knew very early on, if I waited for somebody to give me money to do something, I’d never do anything.Potter began making amateur films, at age 14, with an 8mm camera given to her by an uncle.Potter became an award-winning performance artist and theatre director, with shows including Potter continued as a composer when she collaborated with David Motion on the soundtrack to Referring to her career as a choreographer, Potter said, "Choreography was the perfect 'poor theatre.' Since its release in 1980, Sally Potter's rewriting of Puccini's opera, La Boheme, has become a classic in feminist film... Combines. Directed by David Butler. In between bouts of writing...ORLANDO is a story of the quest for love, and it is also an ironic dance through English history. THE ROADS NOT TAKEN Berlinale Press Conference Highlights Watch highlights from the Berlinale Press Conference for THE ROADS NOT TAKEN, featuring Sally Potter Posted 11th Mar in NEWS. Javier Bardem also did his own research and visited a clinic for people with that particular variant of dementia.