Starring: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, Quentin Crisp

The Future of Film is Female continues its year-long celebration of 90s cinema with a screening of Sally Potter’s ORLANDO. To make a $10 donation to support the life-saving work of LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention organization The Trevor Project, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

“Sally Potter’s 1992 adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf provides a sumptuous framework for Tilda Swinton’s ethereal virtuosity. The drama, spanning four centuries, shows the twists and turns of one fantastic private life that’s formed and deformed by the prerogatives of royal power. In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I—played with quietly gleeful ferocity by Quentin Crisp—elevates the androgynous young man Orlando to a place by her side. Orlando makes his way through the pressure cookers of the seventeenth century’s absolute rule and, in 1700, gets an ambassadorial posting to Constantinople. Lurching ahead by decades and centuries, Orlando never ages but nonetheless changes: emerging as a woman in the eighteenth century, she confronts a new age of aristocratic authority and persecution; brought up to speed in London in the late twentieth century, she still faces the pomp and cultural primacy of the same damned monarchy. Potter’s ironies veer between the blunt and the exquisite, the oblique and the confrontational, exposing the cruel hazards of nature and the perversities of culture alike.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker