Sally Potter Filmography

Born:: England
Occupation:: Actor, Choreography, Director, Editor, Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter
Biography:: One of cinema's more multifaceted personalities, director, writer, dancer, and performance artist Sally Potter is known for making innovative, personal films that center around the lives of unusual women. Born in 1949, Potter began making films as a teenager, and she also began dancing around the...Read More

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Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Sheila Hancock

Synopsis: Filmmaker Sally Potter directed this artful meditation on the dynamics of the romantic and sexual relationship. She (Joan Allen) is an intelligent and gifted genetic scientist of Irish-American heritage who feels smothered in her marriage to a British politician (Sam Neill). While dining at a Read More

6/24/05
The Man Who Cried

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, John Turturro, Johnny Depp, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In this historical drama with music, a gifted singer (Oleg Yankovsky) from a Jewish village in Russia travels to the United States in 1927, leaving behind his young daughter Fegele (Claudia Lander-Duke). Father has promised his family that he'll send for Fegele as soon as he can, but authorities Read More

5/25/01
The Tango Lesson

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sally Potter, Pablo Veron, Gustavo Naveira, Fabian Salas, David Toole

Synopsis: Maverick filmmaker Sally Potter, who won acclaim in 1993 with the gender-bending, history-warping Orlando, returns to her dancing roots with The Tango Lesson. Potter wrote, directed, and starred in the film, also assembling the soundtrack, dancing, and even singing the film's final song. Potter Read More

4/8/98
Orlando

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood, Charlotte Valandrey

Synopsis: Independent filmmaker Sally Potter's gender-bending epic, which views four centuries of sexual politics through the eyes of a sex-switching main character, is based on the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf. The androgynous title character is played with delicate quietude by Tilda Swinton. The story Read More

1992
Women Filmmakers in Russia

Crew: Director

1990
The Gold Diggers

Crew: Choreography, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Julie Christie, David Gale

Synopsis: Lacking any particular plot line, this feminist film focuses on the adventures of Ruby (Julie Christie) who goes to the Yukon to search out her roots -- her father was a gold prospector there -- and also details the experiences of Celeste (Colette Laffont) as she tries to get her male bosses to Read More

1983