Derek
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A film involving two courageous and innovative artists-one the subject and one the filmmaker-provides a cinematic journey that illuminates the work and enduring importance of the late Derek Jarman.... (Full plot summary below)

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Tilda Swinton
Derek Jarman

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A film involving two courageous and innovative artists-one the subject and one the filmmaker-provides a cinematic journey that illuminates the work and enduring importance of the late Derek Jarman.

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JWR - 9/10 by S. James WeggThis homage to one of the world's most creative, impassioned artists paints a fascinating portrait of Derek Jarman's life through the filmmaker's most extensive on-camera interview and a letter of retrospection written and read by long-time collaborator a
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 9/10 by Dennis SchwartzBrilliantly serves as a touristy tour into the gay and avant-garde world of Brit cinema.
Shadows on the Wall - 7/10 by Rich ClineStrikes a moody and atmospheric tone that's perfectly suited to Swinton's somnolent voiceover. And a wealth of imagery makes it worth seeking out
Chicago Tribune - 6/10 by Michael EspositoThey're interesting tales lovingly rendered.
User Review - 10/10 by Michael DIf you're an artist, musician, et al, see this. Changed my life. No joke. :)
User Review - 10/10 by Guy HI'm watching for the third time. One of my favorite shows ever. There is one commandment, "Be kind!" That is it.
User Review - 8/10 by Peter OGreat film based around an interview with Jarman and a letter that his friend Tilda Swinton wrote to him posthumously. Gripping viewing.
User Review - 8/10 by Daryl CIntriguing portrait of Derek Jarman, centered on interviews that Jarman gave over the years (he was a very articulate as well as a conscientiously visible spokesman for gay filmmaking in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s), combined with comments (in the form of a letter) by his friend/colleague/muse Tilda Swinton. The movie is incredibly smooth, almost hypnotically so, but it's a little removed, there's not quite the pulse of great passion which was always present in Jarman's own work. That one caveat aside, this was an excepional "portrait of the artist" and an excellent new film by Isaac Julien.
User Review - 8/10 by Madeline MVery interesting person. I had no idea about this guy, Just grabbed the movie at the library and was into it. Very interesting life. Just amazing tales to tell and what he went and lived through and his art and work. I had no idea.
User Review - 8/10 by Walter MJarman steamed through his life, determined to live out the repression imposed upon him by a sick Catholic schooling system. It is the type of repression that society imposes with all the self righteous venom of frustrated paternalism backed up by misrepresented and outdated religious dogma. The Church has been, and will always be, its own worst enemy. And yet, in a triumphant way, maybe it was the Church then, that stimulated the artist Jarman in his particular role as liberator of the homosexual psyche. History is riddled with homosexual/bisexual artists: shakespeare, t.s. elliot, michaelangelo, passolini, picasso, dali, lorca...the list is endless....but one is never given this information when studying them at school, at university. This documentary ?Derek? by Isaac Julian, is perceptively (though at times somewhat bitterly) narrated by a down-to-earth Tilda Swinton (The Beach, The Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) an astonishing actress who has taken part in many of Jarman?s films, and who was a lifelong friend, possibly even his muse. There is much in her narration that provokes thought. The film gives us a good background to Jarman?s youth, his formative years, his parents, and his fascination with film. The documentary reveals much of what inspired Jarman filmatically, and how he was able to incorporate his influences, transforming them into his own unique vision. From the late ?60?s, his studio became a hub, a meeting place for many of London?s vibrant artists (Hockney, Kemp, Westwood, McLaren) and he was able to connect with punk, just as much as with ?high art?. Although well recognised as an artist in his own country and in his own time, the British cinema shunned him possibly because he made quality films at a fraction of their budget, and expanded British cinema without their sanction. But this is also a testament to an artist who was driven by a need to create, not by a need to be accepted in the ?right? circles. His films are a record of the spirit of a time when his fellow collaborators - Swinton in particular - were enthused and inspired by a drive to create something unique, undictated to, fermenting their own rules. There is a brief and enlightening snippet in the documentary where a liberal MP states during the Thatcher reign: ?The measure of a Nation is the amount of freedom it affords creative intelligence.? Jarman himself, comes across as self depreciating, almost taking himself for granted, yet never falsely modest, not afraid to admit what he doesn?t know, not afraid to reveal how he works....not afraid. He created films (using super 8) at a time when the gay scene was at its most vibrant. His films are without ?gay apology?, are beautifully homoerotic, violent at times. He was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, a time when the illness had only just been named, becoming one of the first well known artists to publicly declare their HIV status. I left the cinema well informed and saddened at the untimely passing of this enlightened human being. My appetite has been fully whetted to pursue viewings of his films wherever/whenever I can.

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