Search results for "Derek Jarman"
The Last of England

The Last of England

The Last of England
IMDb: 6.7
87

The artist’s personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
In the Shadow of the Sun

In the Shadow of the Sun

In the Shadow of the Sun
IMDb: 5.9
54

‘The Shadow of the Sun’ draws upon Derek Jarman’s interest with alchemical processes as a metaphor for reprocessing Super-8 film. Jarman once described film’s union of light and matter as…

Genre: Fantasy
Jubilee

Jubilee

Jubilee
IMDb: 6.6
106

Queen Elizabeth I visits late twentieth-century Britain to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Edward II

Edward II

Edward II
IMDb: 6.7
90

A modern-dress adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Elizabethan tragedy about King Edward II’s homosexual relationship with the ambitious Gaveston, and his overthrow by the queen and the outraged nobility.

Aria

Aria

Aria
IMDb: 4.3
90

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner),…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
War Requiem

War Requiem

War Requiem
IMDb: 6.9
92

A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem, which include WWI soldier poet Wilfred Owen’s poems reflecting the war’s horrors. It…

Genre: Drama, War