Derek Jarman
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- No Alternative
- Dir. Hal Hartley, Derek Jarman
Feat. Lou Reed
- A benefit for AIDS education and relief, indie bands (Smashing Pumpkins, Breeders etc.) and directors (Hal Hartley, Derek Jarman etc.) fuse their…
- Sebastiane (1976)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Leonardo Treviglio
- A Roman soldier is banished to an outpost because of his Christian sympathies where he is eventually immortalised as a martyred saint. Jarman doesn't…
- Jubilee (1978)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Toyah Wilcox, Adam Ant
- Jarman's uncompromising stamp is all over this cult curio which, steeped in the punk ethos, aims at shaking up conventional complacency. A random…
- Tempest, The (1979)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Toyah Wilcox, Peter Bull, Richard Warwick
- One of dir. Jarman's early triumphs, reimagines Shakespeare's final play as a blend of Edwardian drama, cabaret carnival and punk jamboree, all…
- Caravaggio (1986)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Noam Almaz, Dawn Archibald, Sean Bean
- A stylised, impressionistic biopic of the controversial bisexual artist from the Italian renaissance. The film is similarly cryptic, bold and…
- Last of England, The (1988)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Tilda Swinton
- Jarman's personal commentary on the decline of Britain under Thatcher is a shocking, poetically rich montage, mixing images of war and urban decay…
- Garden, The (1990)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills
- Derek Jarman's sincere personal affront with AIDS and the Christian church is represented through a non–narrative dreamscape with himself as…
- Edward II (1991)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry
- Self–conscious updating of the Elizabethan play by Phillip Marlowe, imbued with a stagey panache by dir. Jarmen (a la WITTGENSTEIN),…
- Wittgenstein (1993)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Clancy Chassey, Jill Balcon, Sally Dexter
- A fittingly unorthodox tribute to the life of the gay millionaire's son turned philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Unmistakably Jarmanesque, it probes…
- Blue (1993)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Derek Jarman, John Quentin, Nigel Terry…
- Against a simple, unchanging blue screen, Derek Jarman weaves intricate collages of sound, music and poetry. A moving self–portrait, as the…