News
New York City’s Metrograph is launching a retrospective of Sally Potter. Titled “Yes: The Films of Sally Potter,” the event will showcase seven of the the British filmmaker’s...
Interviews
Sally Potter is one of the world’s most interesting filmmakers. She’s made films with shoestring budgets, and some bigger movies as well — no matter their size, they are always intriguing....
Films
“The Roads Not Taken” has found an alternate road to U.S. audiences in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sally Potter’s latest was released in New York and Los Angeles on March...
Features
“What are you doing to make things better?” asks Salma Hayek in Women and Hollywood’s exclusive clip of “The Roads Not Taken.” Written and directed by Sally Potter, the...
Trailers
Elle Fanning struggles to make sense of her dad’s chaotic mind in Sally Potter’s latest. A trailer has landed for “The Roads Not Taken,” which will make its world premiere at...
Awards
Sally Potter is set to receive the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film at the 40th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, Deadline reports. The writer-director follows in the footsteps of Judi...
Sally Potter is re-teaming with Elle Fanning on her next pic. The “Ginger & Rosa” collaborators are in production on an as-yet untitled feature. Currently filming in Spain, the drama...
Sally Potter will receive the FIPRESCI 93 Platinum award at the Transatlantyk Festival, ScreenDaily confirms. The Polish fest will also screen five of the British writer-director’s films in its...
News, Women Directors
Sally Potter is prepping her two follow-ups to 2012’s Cold War-set coming-of-age tale “Ginger and Rosa.” “I now have two complete scripts ready to go,” the British director announced of...
Here's the latest trailer of Ginger & Rosa from Sally Potter. It premiered in Toronto last September and has played the festival circuit last year to good reviews. The film focuses on the...
Sally Potter's gorgeous Ginger & Rosa was one of my favorite films from last year's AFI Film Festival. A coming of age story, set during the Cold War, best friends Ginger (Elle Fanning)...
Looking back over the last year we are some of our favorite and buzz worthy pieces that ran on the site. We think they are a great overview of what went on for women in and around Hollywood in...
Wake up and smell the latte. Opportunity knocks all over the world, and the common passport is talent. We live in an era where casting directors can cast internationally from their own laptops and...
In my favorite Anne Sexton poem “Rowing,” one line in particular always sticks out to me: “I wore rubies and bought tomatoes/and now, in my middle age/about nineteen in the head...
Interviews, News
After the dust settles, Ginger and Rosa is going to turn out to be one of my the highlights of the festival. Sally Potter, the brilliant director of Orlando has written and directed a truly...
Festivals, News, Videos
In 1960’s London, Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (newcomer Alice Englert) are inseperable best friends who discuss everything from politics to hairstyles. But when the Cold War meets the Sexual...
With one fell swoop the team of men and women who program the New York Film Festival stuck a pin in the eye of the dudes at Cannes by programming seven, yes seven films directed by women at the...
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