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Sally Potter

Sally Potter

Charlotte Sally Potter OBE (born 19 September 1949) is an English film director and screenwriter. She is known for directing Orlando (1992), which won the audience prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. She also directed The Tango Lesson (1997), The Man Who Cried (2000), Yes (2004), Rage (2009), Ginger & Rosa (2012), The Party (2017) and most recently The Roads Not Taken (2020).

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Movies Made By Sally Potter (22)

Look at Me (2022)

Rehearsals for a fundraising gala become the arena for a struggle between two men; one, the gala director and the other, a richly talented but unstable rock drummer. As their battle for expression and control escalates against a relentless rhythmic backdro ...

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The Roads Not Taken (2020)

The film follows 24 hours in the life of father and daughter Leo and Molly, as they weave their way around New York City, until their ordinary but stressful day takes on a hallucinatory and epic quality. ...

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The Party (2017)

Various individuals think they're coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray. ...

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Ginger & Rosa (2012)

A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship. ...

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Rage (2009)

A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the ...

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Yes (2005)

She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because of his heritage and her loveless marriage. She flies to Havana to sort things out on the beach and in the ...

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The Man Who Cried (2000)

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman. ...

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The Tango Lesson (1997)

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relati ...

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Orlando (1992)

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request. ...

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I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman (1988)

This glasnost-era documentary, which incorporates footage from films from the 1920s through the 1980s, looks at the history of women in Russian cinema through the eyes of Russian women directors, actors, and scriptwriters. The film's title refers to a WWII ...

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The London Story (1986)

A mysterious woman recruits a Cabinet doorman and an ex-civil servant for a plot to bring down the British government. ...

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Tears (1986)

Why do we cry? Can men cry too? When are tears acceptable and when are they not? ...

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Laughter (1986)

Examines laughter, its representation in film and its day to day function. Well known people from various backgrounds discuss the issue and what it means to them. ...

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Fear (1986)

People who have experienced fear - those involved in the peace movement, a child, a politian and a film director - discuss the psychological and physical aspects of this emotion. ...

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Rage (1986)

Explores rage, its function and its representation in film. Why does rage occur, how does it differ between people and how do children feel about it? Also questions if rage can ever be a constructive emotion. ...

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Imagining October (1984)

Imagining October explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite Britain. The title refers to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and Sergei Eisenstein's propaganda film October: T ...

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The Gold Diggers (1983)

An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into a post-punk, heady brew. ...

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Thriller (1979)

What happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini's La boheme. In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera's comic heroine Musetta to investigate her own death. ...

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Combines (1972)

One of the earliest events to combine dance on film projected in juxtaposition with live performances by the same dancers. The films included rehearsals of the sequences being danced in their final form on stage; portraits of individual dancers, and differ ...

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Hors d'oeuvres (1971)

Silent footage of dancers is visually manipulated in a variety of ways. ...

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Play (1970)

Children playing on the street. ...

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Jerk (1969)

Film shot one frame at a time, of three faces, including a brother and sister, which merge to become one, followed by a short sequence of minimalist gesture. ...

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Movies Starring Sally Potter (4)

Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema (2000)

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat (both from France), have been making films for decades in a conscious effort ...

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The Tango Lesson (1997)

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relati ...

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Cinefile: Reel Women (1995)

Interviews with women directors working in Hollywood and Europe in the early 1990s, exploring the opportunities and obstacles that face them. A program made to accompany a Channel 4 season of films directed and produced by women. ...

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Portraits (1972)

Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain, scratches and flickering give the film texture. The music is by Steve Reich. ...

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