Movies: Sally Potter

  • 1979
    Thriller

    Thriller (1979)

    Thriller

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    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....

    Thriller
  • 1986
    Laughter

    Laughter (1986)

    Laughter

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    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....

    Laughter
  • 1986
    The London Story

    The London Story (1986)

    The London Story

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

    The London Story
  • 1972
    Combines

    Combines (1972)

    Combines

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    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 ...

    Combines
  • 1984
    Imagining October

    Imagining October (1984)

    Imagining October

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    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 Octo...

    Imagining October
  • 1972
    Portraits

    Portraits (1972)

    Portraits

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    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....

    Portraits
  • 1969
    Orlando, Now

    Orlando, Now (1969)

    Orlando, Now

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    A re-framing both of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando, and of Potter’s film of the same name. Through song and dance, the new film will explore Orlando’s 400 year journey, with questions of class, race, sex, Britain’s imperialist history and what ...

    Orlando, Now