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 turns his back on his fellow soldiers in favor of his own mystical longings, the sun-bleached Mediterranean idyll becomes a psycho-sexual hothouse where lust sets the stage for a shocking tableau of martyrdom.
Audaciously filmed in Latin dialogue and featuring a score by cult composer Brian Eno, Sebastiane is both a milestone of British independent film and a pioneering work of queer cinema. Derek Jarman’s feature film debut premiered at Berlin, Locarno, Outfest, and Frameline: San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival.
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The Tempest
Derek Jarman • United Kingdom • 1979 • Shakespeare, Jarman-style.
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War Requiem
Derek Jarman • United Kingdom • 1989 • A spectacular interpretation of an orchestral masterpiece.
A moving interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's groundbreaking 1961 orchestral masterpiece. Just as Britten combined the sacred Latin Requiem Mass with the searing unromantic war poetry of B...
