Film-maker Sally Potter talks to John Wilson about the formative influences and experiences that inspired her own creative work.
Posted 21st Aug in NEWS
Speaking from her studio, Potter also reflects on the transformative effect of having a film camera in her hands at age 14, the paucity of female filmmakers when she started and her unwillingness to let age limit her creative pursuits.
Posted 17th Aug in NEWS
Sally Potter on Doubt, da Vinci, and Her Debut Album Pink Bikini
Posted 16th Aug in NEWS
Filmmaker Sally Potter, who just put out her debut album Pink Bikini, on the sense of yearning tied to the artform she's loved since childhood.
Posted 9th Aug in NEWS
The 73-year-old filmmaker (once again) proves her artistic dexterity with an autobiographical debut album, ‘Pink Bikini’
Posted 28th Jul in NEWS
The filmmaker Sally Potter has won awards at the Venice and Berlin film festivals and directed actors like Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, and Javier Bardem. Now, at 73, she's releasing her debut album. She joins us to discuss the album, Pink Bikini, for an All Of It Listening Party.
Posted 18th Jul in NEWS
Filmmaker Sally Potter built her reputation as a highly respected auteur who launched Tilda Swinton’s career in the Oscar-nominated film “Orlando.” Now in her 70’s, she’s kickstarting a music career with her debut record, “Pink Bikini.”
Posted 17th Jul in NEWS
Sally Potter ruminates on adolescent rage, longing behind debut album 'Pink Bikini'
Posted 16th Jul in NEWS
In this chat, we get to meet the fantastic, storied filmmaker Sally Potter. The writer-director of such acclaimed and varied films such as Orlando and Ginger & Rosa, Sally is actually just now releasing her debut full-length album (!) which is called Pink Bikini.
Posted 14th Jul in NEWS
Award-winning director Sally Potter has challenged British society throughout her 50-year career, in films like “Orlando,” “The Party,” and “Ginger and Rosa.” Now, at 73, Potter’s creative resolve forges on with her first studio album, “Pink Bikini.”
Posted 14th Jul in NEWS
Filmmaker Sally Potter on her first music album. Listen here
Posted 11th Jul in NEWS
The film director lets us into her cultural life Read here
Posted 1st Jul in NEWS
The director of ‘Orlando’ has turned singer-songwriter with tales of girlhood, growing up and sexual awakening
Posted 22nd Jun in NEWS
EXCLUSIVE: Last month, we told you that British filmmaker Sally Potter (Orlando, The Party) has written and recorded her debut music album, Pink Bikini. Today, we can share the first video Potter shot for the project.
Posted 19th Jun in NEWS
The Garden Cinema is delighted to host a weekend of screenings and events celebrating the films and music of one of the UK’s foremost artists: Sally Potter.
Posted 9th Jun in NEWS
Sally Potter joins Miranda Sawyer to talk about key musical moments from her life and the making of her new album Pink Bikini.
Posted 30th Apr in NEWS
Sally Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel is the story of a journey through ti
Posted 15th Dec in Rage
Look At MeThe British filmmaker Sally Potter’s audacious adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s classic
Posted 6th Dec in NEWS
Shorts Exclusive: Sally Potter Talks to Javier Bardem About Their Collaboration on ‘Look At Me’
Posted 18th Nov in NEWS
A boundary between helping a loved one and walking away from them is being played with in Sally Pot
Posted 15th Nov in NEWS
A clash occurs between a former drug addict and the one who stood by his side during the worst of it
Posted 10th Nov in NEWS
Hollywood has an obsession with ‘what could have been’. It’s a question which haunts many of i
Posted 7th Nov in NEWS
THE PIONEERING SALLY POTTER...
Posted 7th Oct in NEWS
Thirty years later, Sally Potter’s ‘Orlando’ still feels wildly modern
Posted 7th Oct in NEWS
Sally Potter on Her New Short Film Look At Me, Her Metrograph Retrospective, Her Upcoming Comedy, and More
Posted 6th Oct in NEWS
Sick of rejections from Hollywood’s bonnet-crazed bigwigs, Sally Potter set out to make a movie of Virginia Woolf's “unfilmable” novel Orlando on her own terms, decamping to the former USSR as the Iron Curtain collapsed. What sounds like a recipe for art-house obscurity yielded box office gold, presaging contemporary conversations about sexual and gender identity by three decades and launching extraordinary careers, not least that of a certain Tilda Swinton. As the film celebrates 30 years in print, here’s how a passion project became a landmark cinematic revelation.
Posted 29th Sep in NEWS
Look at Me: A New Short from Sally Potter
Posted 15th Sep in NEWS
Sally Potter on bringing short ‘Look At Me’ starring Javier Bardem and Chris Rock to Venice
Posted 2nd Sep in NEWS
‘Look At Me’ Trailer: Chris Rock, Javier Bardem Electrify In Sally Potter’s Venice Short Film As Bankside Films Boards Sales & Bleecker Street Sets U.S. Release
Posted 30th Aug in NEWS
In Look at Me, Rock is thrown to the floor by Javier Bardem. Potter discusses male anger in her film and the similarities between that and Rock’s real-life experience of being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars
Posted 25th Aug in NEWS