Derek Jarman • United Kingdom • 1993 • Jarman's final, most daring statement.
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, Jarman narrates about his life, his struggle with AIDS, and his encroaching blindness. By turns poignant, amusing, poetic and philosophical, Blue premiered at Telluride, Rotterdam, and Stockholm, where it won an Honorable Mention.
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Caravaggio
Derek Jarman • United Kingdom • 1986 • Jarman's most profound reflection on art, sexuality, and identity.
Derek Jarman's most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his fli...
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Sebastiane
Derek Jarman & Paul Humfress • U.K. • 1976 • A soldier becomes the object of his commander's desire.
Stripped of rank and exiled to a remote Sardinian outpost, Roman soldier and suspected Christian Sebastian becomes the object of his commanding officer's aggressive desire. As Sebastian turn...
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The Garden
Derek Jarman • United Kingdom • 1990 • A fierce polemic against discrimination.
Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, The Garden was born of director Derek Jarman’s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and t...
