| Description |
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 12 cm. |
| Summary |
THE GOLD DIGGERS is the ground-breaking, exquisitely photographed early feminist film by Sally Potter, director of ORLANDO and THE TANGO LESSON. "Drawing from the same well of avant-garde anti-structure as enfant terrible Jean-Luc Godard and playwright Bertolt Brecht, Sally Potter’s whip-smart THE GOLD DIGGERS is brimming with cultural and political signifiers that combine to form a singular work in the feminist counter cinema space. Employing an all-female crew to shoot, compose, and design this proto-Lynchian world of romantic surrealism, the British filmmaker establishes herself as a trailblazer in this “search for the secret of [her] own transformation.” Babette Mangolte’s career-best cinematography elucidates a visual and thematic sendup of silent comedies, Depression-era musicals, and European arthouse cinema in an elegant, non-narrative ode to — and critique of — traditional Hollywood moviemaking."- UCLA Film & Television Archive -- WMM website |
| Credits |
Director:Sally Potter |
| Cast |
Features: Colette Laffont, George Yiasoumi, Julie Christie |
| Notes |
No rating given |
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In English |
| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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| Author |
Potter, Sally, 1949-
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Women Make Movies (Firm), distributor
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