Swinton returned to period films several years later, playing the gender-bending role of Orlando, an androgynous young nobleman with eternal youth who wakes up one morning as female.

Although she’s been working in movies since the mid-'80s, Tilda Swinton has spent the past two decades establishing her reputation as one of the greatest actors of her generation. Few actors can ...

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Both women mention the importance of the legendary director Michael Powell, who died two years before the movie's premiere but who, as Potter explains, “personally put his support in private behind ...

Arguably it is stretching the bounds of this column to claim Orlando, the eponymous protagonist of Sally Potter’s 1992 film, as a Heroine of Cinema. After all, the character not only begins life ...

This Friday, director Sally Potter's award-winning costume drama "Orlando," starring Tilda Swinton as an Elizabethan Age nobleman who morphs into a woman over the course of 400 years, will be re ...

Almost unthinkable now, 18 years ago, a writer-director and a performer made career breakthroughs with a film based on a 1928 novel by a titan of modernism about a character who changes genders and ...