The Gold Diggers and Sally Potter: The Early Works

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The Gold Diggers and Sally Potter: The Early Works

#1 Post by antnield » Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:52 am

Both up for pre-order on Amazon. Release date 9th November.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/London-Story-DV ... 552&sr=8-2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gold-Diggers-DV ... 830&sr=1-9" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

They're listing The Early Works as London Story, so it's safe to assume that will be included(!) though hopefully we'll get Thriller too.

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#2 Post by L. Aspell » Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:12 am

Saw The Gold Diggers during the NFT/BFI Southbank Julie Christie season a wee while back. It's my favourite of Potter's works to date, explicit politics and theory with exquisite images, and terrific performances.

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Re: The Gold Diggers and Sally Potter: The Early Works

#3 Post by antnield » Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:52 pm

Bit more info has appeared on Play.com:

The Early Works will feature early experimental 8mm films alongside 'London Story' and 'Thriller' and comes with fully illustrated booklet featuring essays, credits and biographical information.

'The Gold Diggers' also comes with booklet featuring the same (as, of course, we've come to expect from the BFI) and, on disc, archival interview footage.

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#4 Post by GaryC » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:52 pm

antnield wrote:'The Gold Diggers' also comes with booklet featuring the same (as, of course, we've come to expect from the BFI) and, on disc, archival interview footage.
I remember Film 82 (or 83) doing an on-set feature on The Gold Diggers with Potter being interviewed - I wonder if that's the interview on the disc? All I remember of it is her saying "I love black and white."

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Re: The Gold Diggers and Sally Potter: The Early Works

#5 Post by MichaelB » Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:43 am

Full specs announced:
The Gold Diggers
Directed by Sally Potter
Julie Christie, Colette Laffont

The ground-breaking first feature from the director of Orlando and The Tango Lesson is released on DVD for the first time, alongside a retrospective at BFI Southbank that runs throughout December. The release also includes five early works by Sally Potter.

Sally Potter is one of the UK’s most innovative and original filmmakers. Her first feature, The Gold Diggers, is a key film of early Eighties feminist cinema. Made with an all-woman crew, featuring stunning photography by Babette Mangolte and a score by Lindsay Cooper, it embraces a radical and experimental narrative structure.

Celeste (Colette Laffont) is a computer clerk in a bank who becomes fascinated by the relationship between money and power. Ruby (Julie Christie) is an enigmatic beauty trapped in fleeting memories of a frozen landscape, on a quest to recover the truth about her own identity. Celeste kidnaps Ruby and starts asking questions that lead to them making links between the star system, economics, and a cinematic riddle that contains them both. Together they begin to unravel the truth about the search for gold and the secrets of personal transformation and freedom.

Special features
• Five early works by Sally Potter: Thriller (1979, 32 mins); The London Story (1986, 16 mins); Jerk (1969, 2 mins); Play (1970, 5 mins); hors d'oeuvres (1971, 10 mins)
• Fully illustrated booklet featuring newly commissioned essays by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sophie Mayer and Jacky Lansley
• Downloadable PDF files featuring letters, script extracts and more
• PCM dual mono audio (48k/16bit)

Release date: 28 December 2009
RRP: £19.99 / cat. no. BFIVD818 / cert U
UK / 1983 / black and white / English, optional hard-of-hearing subtitles /
86 mins + 65 mins extra material / DVD-9 / 1.78:1 (anamorphic)



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#8 Post by hearthesilence » Sat Oct 08, 2022 12:11 am

Any chance of this getting a Blu-ray upgrade?

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Re: The Gold Diggers and Sally Potter: The Early Works

#9 Post by hearthesilence » Mon Oct 10, 2022 4:10 pm

I didn't realize Sally Potter had her own Instagram account, but apparently she recently stopped by Criterion as well. (Maybe they'll put these works out in the States? I don't think any of them ever got a proper DVD release here.) She actually holds up a copy of A Matter of Life and Death which is very nice - during one of her Metrograph Q&A's last week, she was asked why he was thanked in the credits for Orlando, and she mentioned that Powell championed the project and tried helping her to get it made. (She didn't mention this, but he even set up a meeting with Scorsese, though it didn't lead to anything.) She told the audience about a fundraiser he attended that didn't raise a penny, but she didn't care because Powell was there next to her, and afterwards when they went for a walk in the park, he picked up a stick and held it to her, saying he was passing the baton.


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