Derek Jarman
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A revealing insight into the life and method of one of the most influential filmmaking talents of the modern era. Featuring the very best excerpts from many of Jarman's rarely or never seen sketchbooks, each page is layered with drawings, photographs, cuttings, letters - even pressed flowers - and accompanied by scrawled ideas, beautifully penned poetry and working scripts.
3) Blue
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In his final and most daring cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness, BLUE is by turns poignant, amusing, poetic and philosophical. Official Selection at the **Edinburgh International Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **New York...
4) Edward II
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
King Edward II enfuriates his queen and imperils his throne by bringing his lover Gaveston to court.
5) The tempest
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Shot on location at the ancient and ghostly Stoneleigh Abbey, THE TEMPEST is Derek Jarman's (War Requiem) acclaimed 1979 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's final great play. It is the story of Prospero the magician, who lives on an island with his nubile daughter on an enchanted island and punishes his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. Essentially a study of sexual and political power in the guise of a fairy tale, in Jarman's hands, THE...
6) Caravaggio
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jarman's gorgeously sensual re-imagining of the volatile life of the 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his rampant flirtations with the underworld.
7) Jubilee
Series
Criterion collection volume 191
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the future, she's transported 400 years to a post-apocalyptic wasteland of roving girl gangs, an all-powerful media mogul, fascistic police, scattered filth, and twisted sex.
8) The garden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, this film was born of director Derek Jarman's rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the slow response to the AIDS crisis. This kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker₂s genius at its most coruscating, making space in its breadth of vision for an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical number, nightmare images of tar-and-feather queer persecution, and footage of the particularly menacing-looking nuclear...
9) Edward II
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Director Derek Jarman's controversial adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play portrays the weak-willed monarch as neglecting his kingdom for his commoner male lover.