‘Orlando’ Returns To Theaters For 30th Anniversary As Sally Potter Reveals Top-Secret ‘Orlando, Now’ Project – Exclusive First Look
14.10.2022 - 04:57
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EXCLUSIVE: Orlando, filmmaker Sally Potter’s seminal gender-bending and much acclaimed 1992 movie, is finding new life with a 30th anniversary 4K restoration and a theatrical re-release beginning Friday. It’s from Sony Pictures Classics, the specialty arm of Sony Pictures that also happens to be celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, counting Orlando as a major part of their first year in business in 1992. It went on to score even a couple of Oscar nominations for its Production Design and Costume Design in addition to becoming a movie that not only never seems out of date, but now in this era even more pertinent and timely than ever.
As a special bonus, billed with the Orlando re-release is a new short Potter made called Look at Me, which stars Javier Bardem and Chris Rock. It originally was filmed as part of a recent 2020 feature she did called The Roads Not Taken, which starred Bardem on a road trip with a daughter — played by Elle Fanning — as he experiences alternate lives he could have had. This sequence in which he plays a failed drummer was part of that movie, but Potter, even at the writing stages, felt it didn’t quite fit the rest of the story, so she told Bardem and Rock it was going to be cut from the film but promised she would rework it as a short. She now has done that, incidentally making it eligible to compete in this year’s Live Action Short Oscar race.
As for the new life for Orlando, the film based on Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel has Tilda Swinton starring as an immortal nobleman who inherits his parents’ house back from Queen Elizabeth I on the condition that he “not fade,” has a memorable if disastrous affair with a Russian princess, and then at around his 200th birthday, wakes up as a
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