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 flirtations with the underworld. Caravaggio incorporates the painter's precise aesthetic into the movie's own visuals, while touching on all of Jarman's major concerns: history, homosexuality, violence and the relationship between painting and film. Starring Tilda Swinton in her screen debut, Caravaggio premiered at Berlin, where it won the C.I.D.A.L.C. Award and the Silver Bear for Best Director.
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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...
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The Tempest
Derek Jarman • United Kingdom • 1979 • Shakespeare, Jarman-style.
Prospero the magician lives on an enchanted island with his nubile daughter, punishing his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. In Jarman's hands, Shakespeare’s final play becomes an original and dazzling spectacle mixing Hol...
