New York Metropolis’s Metrograph is launching a retrospective of Sally Potter. Titled “Sure: The Movies of Sally Potter,” the occasion will showcase seven of the the British filmmaker’s options and a lot of her shorts, together with the North American premiere of her newest brief, “Look At Me,” a portrait of a drummer and a gala organizer who’re getting ready for a efficiency underneath more and more tense circumstances.
Programming additionally incorporates a new restoration of 1992 Tilda Swinton-starrer “Orlando,” Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending novel. Different titles set to display screen embrace “Ginger & Rosa,” a 2012 coming-of-age drama led by Elle Fanning that’s set in opposition to the backdrop of 1962 London, and 1983’s “The Gold Diggers,” a sci-fi musical that was made with an all-female crew.
The retrospective is known as after “Sure,” Potter’s 2004 romance about an American and a Lebanese exile who cross paths in London.
“Sure: The Movies of Sally Potter” kicks off October 7. Potter will likely be in attendance for choose screenings of “Orlando” October 7 and 9, with additional dates and particulars to be introduced, in keeping with a press launch from the Metrograph.
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