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Sally Potter

March 2023

  • A film by aesthetes, for aesthetes … Tilda Swinton in Orlando.

    Orlando review – Tilda Swinton is magnetic in Sally Potter’s swoony reverie

    Potter’s 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s book remains trance-inducingly strange, stuffed full of style and stars

August 2022

  • Sally Potter and Chris Rock on set for Look At Me.

    Sally Potter on making a film about violence with Chris Rock: ‘He is aware of what happens when a man feels humiliated’

    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

March 2021

  • Forbidden and hedonistic … Gordon Warnecke and Daniel Day-Lewis in My Beautiful Laundrette.Character(s): Omar Hussein & Johnny Film 'MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE' (1985) Directed By STEPHEN FREARS 18 August 1985 TW352 Allstar/CHANNEL FOUR FILMS (UK 1985) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of CHANNEL FOUR FILMS and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To CHANNEL FOUR FILMS is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    'Two boys snogging was revolutionary': the greatest gay moments in cinema

    From Gus Van Sant to Maryam Keshavarz, Terence Davies to Andrew Haigh, film-makers and writers recall the charged scenes that moved and inspired them – and even helped nudge them out of the closet

September 2020

  • Javier Bardem in The Roads Not Taken.

    The Roads Not Taken review – Sally Potter's poetic vision of mental illness

    Javier Bardem stars in Potter’s moving film inspired by her younger brother’s rare form of early onset dementia
  • Haunted by tragedy … The Roads Not Taken

    The Roads Not Taken review – painful chapters in writer's life

    In Sally Potter’s sad drama, Javier Bardem gives a fervent performance as an author plagued by the past after he suffers a stroke
  • Sally Potter: ‘I personally feel identity should be chucked away as soon as possible ... but to be able to is a privilege.’

    Director Sally Potter: 'I've seen the grief Covid-19 causes'

    Through a bout of coronavirus and re-edits that saw Chris Rock cut entirely, it has been a bumpy road for the director’s new film

November 2017

  • Kathy Burke shot at her house on 25 September 2017

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

    Kathy Burke, Philip Pullman and Natalie Dormer and a rat in the kitchen all feature in this month’s showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer in October 2017.

October 2017

  • THE PARTY (2017)<br>TIMOTHY SPALL, CILLIAN MURPHY, EMILY MORTIMER & PATRICIA CLARKSON Film 'THE PARTY' (2017) Directed By SALLY POTTER 13 February 2017 SAS75322 Allstar Picture Library/ADVENTURE PICTURES **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of ADVENTURE PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To ADVENTURE PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. 1111z@yx

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    The Party review – the dinner bash from hell

  • Sally Potter photographed in London at her production office.

    Sally Potter: ‘There’s nothing like hearing a whole place vibrate with laughter’

September 2017

  • Jason Isaacs in The Death of Stalin, Jennifer Lawrence in Mother!, and Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner 2049.

    Autumn arts preview 2017
    Lovers, haters and dead dictators: the must-see movies of autumn 2017

    Kicking off our guide to the season’s cultural highlights, we head to the cinema for the return of Blade Runner, a tale of taboo sex and Armando Iannucci’s stunning Stalin satire. Here are the 20 films we’re most looking forward to this autumn

February 2017

  • Timothy Spall, Bruno Ganz, Kristin Scott Thomas, Cillian Murphy, Sally Potter and Patricia Clarkson at the Berlin premiere of Potter’s The Party.

    Berlin film festival 2017 roundup: an SOS for a world without walls

    Sally Potter’s The Party, Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House and a magical refugee story from Aki Kaurismäki stood out. But this year’s real Berlinale finds came from Chile and China…
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    The Party review – conniptions amid the canapés in an observant real-time farce

    Kristin Scott Thomas stars as a shadow cabinet member hosting one of those dos at which shock revelation follows shock revelation, in Sally Potter’s short, smart comedy
  • Sally Potter speaks at the Berlin film festival.

    Sally Potter: 'The Party is the opposite of Brexit'

    The British director of the star-studded political comedy, which premiered at Berlin film festival, says it is ‘absolutely a political statement’ about ‘a broken England’

December 2016

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    The most exciting film dramas of 2017

    Concluding our 10-part series of the movies we are most looking forward to next year, we run through the ones that promise to pack plenty of emotional punch

June 2016

  • Timothy Spall

    Timothy Spall: 'The feeling of doing it wrong gets bigger and bigger'

    He is one of Britain’s favourite actors. This year, he’s been on stage in The Caretaker and is set to star in films as Ian Paisley and Holocaust denier David Irving. So why is Timothy Spall so full of doubt?

November 2014

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    Lindsay Cooper: a rebel with applause

    Classically trained musician Lindsay Cooper radicalised British jazz while battling multiple sclerosis. A year after her death, collaborator and friend Sally Potter pays tribute

February 2014

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    Portrait of the artist
    Sally Potter, film director – portrait of the artist

    'When you push through your limits, it gets painful – it's like a scab coming off'

October 2012

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    Ginger & Rosa – review

    Sally Potter's drama about two British teenage girls during the Cuban missile crisis never quite rings true, writes Philip French

  • Alice Englert and Elle Fanning in a film still from Ginger and Rosa

    Film talk
    Ginger & Rosa's Elle Fanning and Alice Englert - video interview

    Elle Fanning and Alice Englert, the stars of Sally Potter's new film Ginger & Rosa, talk to Catherine Shoard

  • Ginger & Rosa

    Sally Potter: 'I dreamed about the nuclear threat most nights'

    Sally Potter's Ginger & Rosa, which charts the friendship of two teenage girls in postwar London, draws on her own memories of the Cuban missile crisis, she tells Catherine Shoard
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