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Where is Sally Potter?
I've trawled the web so you don't have to! Academic articles, fan websites, review listings, filmographies. And of course Sally's own website.
You Are Me / I Am You
How to Contact Sally Potter
Yes I Said Yes Yes
Yes: Screenplay and Notes
Screenplay: with notes, transcript of a Q&A, glossy photos, and shooting script for original five minute short.
Amazon Price: $16.95 (as of 10/06/2008)
When In Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eyes
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directors
- A detailed, beautifully-written overview from this excellent Australian journal. It covers Sally's work from Thriller to Yes and includes a lengthy bibliography. McKim argues passionately for Potter's cinematic approach of "loving detachment."
- BFI: Contemporary Auteurs
- A long interview designed for media studies students that reveals a lot of information about Sally's approach to directing, her views on the changing gender politics of cinema, and what it means to be an "auteur."
- Camera Obscura on Thriller
- Cheers to Brown University for putting these early issues of Camera Obscura, the first journal about feminist film, online. In this issue, available to download as a pdf, you can also read Sally's notes on Thriller, just a page before the article by filmmaker Jane Weinstock, who presents a personal response to the film's utopian potential.
- Film Quarterly: David Ehrenstein interview
- Ehrenstein is a long-time fan of Potter's, and this interview helps but her dazzling (re)emergence with the success of Orlando in the context of her earlier work as a performance artist and filmmaker. They tackle knotty issues such as Potter's relationship with Virginia Woolf's novel, and identity politics.
- Cineaste: Cynthia Lucie interview
- A serious and enjoyable conversation about Yes, considering the film's aesthetics, politics, performance and impact.
- Artforum: Gary Indiana
- Incisive interview about Orlando with a great film writer.
MetaPotter
- Bibliography from Thriller to Orlando
- A list of scholarly articles and reviews from 1979 to 1994. No live links, but all the details you need to find them yourself.
- BFI profile
- List of all the films Sally's been involved with, including her shorts, and her credits on them.
- BritFilms
- Links to reviews of The Man Who Cried and Yes.
- UC Berkeley
- Their cream of the Potter crop.
The End... Is Just the Beginning
Orlando
DVD: follow Orlando's 400 year journey in 90 minutes -- or take as long as you like.
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Orlando: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
OST on CD: listen to this and feel Tilda Swinton look straight in your eyes. Shivery.
Amazon Price: $16.98 (as of 10/06/2008)
Orlando
Screenplay: with introduction, photos and all your favourite lines.
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People on Potter
Chick Flicks : Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement
B. Ruby Rich, grrrl cinema warrior, made friends with Sally when she was a squatting activist and performance artist - and her review of Thriller in the Chicago Reader introduced American audiences to the film. This is a wonderful, unconventional history that proceeds by anecdote: meet Sally Potter and her filmmaking circle (including Julie Christie) on their own terms.
Amazon Price: $22.45 (as of 10/06/2008)
A Theory of Adaptation
Published in 2006, this book demonstrates Orlando's continuing relevance and excitement.
Amazon Price: $25.15 (as of 10/06/2008)
Feminism and Film
There's a whole chapter on Orlando> here - and it's a fascinating read.
Amazon Price: $16.95 (as of 10/06/2008)
A Fine Romance Pb (Culture And The Moving Image)
Patricia Mellencamp met Sally when she came to the US to tour Thriller and has been an ardent supporter of her films since. This book includes sections on Thriller, The Gold Diggers and Orlando as major milestones in cinematic history.
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A Critical Cinema 3: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers
A wealth of material on many directors here, including a long and detailed interview with Sally, which discusses her early performance work and short films, as well as her big screen filmmaking.
Amazon Price: $29.65 (as of 10/06/2008)
Read 'em and Weep
Man Who Cried
DVD: available in several regions. This is the ultimate Sunday afternoon film.
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The Man Who Cried
Screenplay: with an introduction, a note on the music, and a short story that Sally wrote while developing the film
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Two to Tango
Tango Lesson
DVD: watch it until you know the dances off by heart. Or the hearts like dance steps.
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The Tango Lesson
Screenplay: with a note "on following," a tango diary and a short story about making the film.
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The Tango Lesson: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1997 Film)
Tangos a go go.
Amazon Price: $12.99 (as of 10/06/2008)
The Tango Lesson
VHS: Mainly here for the gorgeous cover. But also a viable option if you don't live in a region where there's a DVD released.
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Potterology
- Screenonline
- A short biography and links to BFI holdings.
- YES clip
- Sally's notes on writing Yes and a free clip, from the excellent Open Democracy site.
- Women Make Movies
- Hooray for Women Make Movies! Not only are they one of the only surviving independent distributors in the US, but they carry an incredible range of feminist cinema -- and they make it available to educational institutions and individuals.
- Private Passions, BBC Radio 3
- Sally's choice of music, as aired and discussed on this radio show.
- Films42
- A fan site, well put together with great links.
- Greencine: Yes
- This lovely review, on the eco-friendly alternative to Netflix, gets to the heart of the fans' relationship with Sally, by talking about how the film is able to touch viewers so personally, voicing their inner thoughts.
- Orlando online shrine
- A work of dedication and loveliness -- includes details on the sources and intertexts of the film, the performance histories of the cast, and a regular news update. Superb.
