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1) Sebastiane
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Latin
Description
Jarman made his feature directorial debut with this interpretation of the life of St. Sebastiane. The Roman martyr is exiled to an all-male colony and tortured in this visually stylish and gorgeously photographed film. Sebastiane caused a stir for its frank homoerotic content, but was equally noteworthy for presenting its dialogue entirely in Latin. Music by Brian Eno.
2) The tempest
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An epic romance set in Russia during the final days of the Tsarist autocracy, Barrymore stars as Sgt. Ivan Markov, a dedicated soldier who defies the rigid class system to receive an officer's commission. But even as he rises through the ranks of military and society, he must contend with resentment from the aristocratic officers-including the monocled Ullrich Haupt, who delivers a sinister performance worthy of Erich von Stroheim, himself an uncredited...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying The last of England is a lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. One of Jarman's most experimental and overwhelming works, he has Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) stalk through the remnants of industrial England, encountering visions of fascistic slaughter and sacrifice. These nightmares are cut together with his family's idyllic home movies,...
5) Edward II
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.
6) War requiem
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
World War I Collection Spotlight - Aftermath
World War I Collection Spotlight - Essentials [Adult]
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - Poetry
World War I Collection Spotlight - Essentials [Adult]
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - Poetry
Description
The horrors of war and the pacifist sentiments expressed in Benjamin Britten's War requiem and the poems of Wilfred Owen are evoked in scenes and vignettes illustrating death and suffering in World War I.
7) Caravaggio
Series
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.
8) Derek
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton personally conducts an intimatecinematic commemoration of the life, times, and work of UK filmmaker,artist, and renegade Derek Jarman in Derek. Both a "heartbreaking and giddily alive biopic" and an "accomplished homage" (Art forum), Isaac Julien's Derek is a joyful requiem celebrating Derek Jarman's life, vision and legacy with the same maverick energy and affectionate creativity that made its subject one of the...
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