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 Hollywood pastiche, high camp, and gothic horror.
Shot on location at the ancient and ghostly Stoneleigh Abbey, and recalling the innocent homoeroticism of Pasolini classic adaptations, The Tempest is a study of sexual and political power in the guise of a fairy tale. Derek Jarman’s film premiered at Toronto, Edinburgh and QueerLisboa.
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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...
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Wittgenstein
Derek Jarman • United Kingdom • 1993 • A modern, theatrical retelling of Wittgenstein.
Born in 1889 to wealthy family, Ludwig Wittgenstein was a prodigy, educated in Vienna and Manchester before settling into a career as a philosopher at Cambridge, where he taught alongside Bertrand Russell and ...
