rodcorp (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
This is from Jarman's book on colour, written as he grew ill in 1993 in hospitals and Dungeness. He died in 1994. It's perhaps unsurprising that he returns to themes of time, of pigments fading to ghostly whites and greys,...
This is London (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
After mentoring from Derek Jarman and a spell in music videos and soaps, 47-year-old Joanna Hogg has directed a feature debut.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
VIENNA.- The artist and film maker Derek Jarman (1942−1994) is regarded as the most eminent representative of British independent cinema from the 1970ies to the 1990ies. In his strongly autobiographical work, film, painting, stage design, and text overlap to form an impressive gesamtkunstwerk of political impact. His works document socially explosive issues such as the punk movement,
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
News: Second Sight have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of War Requiem on 10th November 2008 priced at £19.99 RRP. To coincide with its 20th Anniversary director Derek Jarman's (Jubilee, Caravaggio) epic and moving War Requiem is released on UK DVD f...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The Year of Derek Jarman continues in November, with Kino's repackaging of their Jarman related films. Nothing new, but nice to have the titles condensed into a more affordable box. The titles are his first film, along with co-director Paul Humfress, Sebastiane , The Tempest , War Requiem and Isaac Julien's documentary Derek , written by Tilda Swinton, on 18 November. Now if only we can get someone...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 27/07/2008
English Buildings has been to Dungeness and Derek Jarman's garden at Prospect Cottage. Malcolm Saville went to Dungeness too. The following passage is from The Elusive Grasshopper , published in 1951: Some days later Jon tried to describe Dungeness to his mother and found it very difficult, although it was little more than a desert of shingle which had been made even uglier by slovenly and haphazard...
in the hall of mirrors (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
I've been watching Derek Jarman's The Garden (1990) in order to write about it for the book. I wasn't looking forward to this, because I've conceived such an annoyed dislike for such films as Sebastiane and War Requiem – the...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
Derek Jarman didn't make the best movies, but the movies were so much better off when he was making them.
electro^plankton (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Channeling Derek Jarman.
DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Reviewed by Brett Cullum Quote: "All of the films get fine transfers on this set, and it's an amazing conglomeration of art and the avant garde. Each of these titles had been previously released by the British Film Institute for DVD, but here Zeitgeist Films provides us with a comprehensive collection."
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
Kino will release Isaac Julien's documentary Derek , about the artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman, on 2 September. The film is narrated and written by one of his muses, Tilda Swinton.
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Recommended "I've often thought that the reason he wanted to make films was for the company, that there was something in him that was so gregarious and so valued. He loved being in a group, just as he loved being solitary...he's telling his own story over and over again. He was the material of his own work." - Tilda Swinton The MAN Avant-garde, underground, experimental...you name it, Derek Jarman...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
"Derek, a fragmentary portrait of the British filmmaker, painter, set designer and writer Derek Jarman, is a cinematic scrapbook of the life and times of an iconoclast, aesthete and provocateur who died of AIDS in 1994," writes Stephen Holden...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
This fragmentary portrait of the British filmmaker, painter, set designer and writer Derek Jarman, is a cinematic scrapbook of the life and times of an iconoclast, aesthete and provocateur.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
"Derek," a 76-minute tribute to British gay film legend Derek Jarman, who died of AIDS in 1994, bears an odd credit: "Written and spoken...
