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by aerobot | created - 16 Feb 2020 | updated - 18 Feb 2020 | PublicMovies by (and about) Derek Jarman
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1. A Journey to Avebury (1971)
10 min | Short
A short experimental Super 8 film made by Jarman in 1971, it charts a walking journey he made through the Wiltshire landscape to the Neolithic stones at Avebury.
Director: Derek Jarman
Votes: 200
2. Garden of Luxor (1972)
9 min | Short
A silent avant-garde experience created by Derek Jarman, filled with superimposed images forming a whole picture. His palette consists mostly of reddish random images of Egypt and the ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Karl Bowen, Christopher Hobbs
Votes: 164
3. Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen (1973)
3 min | Short
A three-minute black and white film which begins with a portrait of Karen Blixen taken from a photograph.
Director: Derek Jarman | Star: Gerald Incandela
Votes: 100
4. Art of Mirrors (1973)
6 min | Short
An abstract film shot in super 8 features figures moving in the foreground and background of an empty space holding mirrors which occasionally flash in the lens of the camera. The images ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Gerald Incandela, Luciana Martínez, Kevin Whitney
Votes: 227
5. Sebastiane (1976)
X | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Reassigned to a lowly outpost, a Roman guard's Christian beliefs clash with his gay commander's desire for closeness. Being tortured becomes pleasurable.
Directors: Paul Humfress, Derek Jarman | Stars: Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Richard Warwick
Votes: 3,145
7. Nighthawks (1978)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A homosexual man is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night.
Director: Ron Peck | Stars: Ken Robertson, Tony Westrope, Rachel Nicholas James, Maureen Dolan
Votes: 712
8. Jubilee (1978)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Adam Ant, Richard O'Brien, Ian Charleson, Jayne County
Votes: 3,703
9. The Tempest (1979)
R | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy
Banished to a forsaken island, the Right Duke of Milan and Sorcerer Prospero gets the chance to take his revenge on the King of Naples with the assistance of his airy spirit-servant, Ariel.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Peter Bull, David Meyer, Neil Cunningham, Heathcote Williams
Votes: 1,245
10. In the Shadow of the Sun (1981)
51 min | Fantasy
A collection of Super 8 films shot by Derek Jarman between 1972 and 1975, edited to the music of Throbbing Gristle.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Karl Bowen, Graham Dowie, Christopher Hobbs, Gerald Incandela
Votes: 292
11. T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven (1981 Music Video)
8 min | Music
Experimental film of the group 'Throbbing Gristle' in concert.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson, Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti
Votes: 333
12. Pirate Tape (1983)
15 min | Short
Short portrait of writer William S. Burroughs.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: William S. Burroughs, Peter Christopherson, FM Einheit
Votes: 129
13. Cinématon (1984)
TV-PG | 210 min | Documentary
A 151-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It is considered to be the longest film ever released.
Director: Gérard Courant | Stars: Marie-Louise Alemann, Halim Anou, Tina Aumont, Cécile Babiole
Votes: 124
14. The Angelic Conversation (1985)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama
An unseen woman recites Shakespeare's sonnets - fourteen in all - as a man wordlessly seeks his heart's desire. The photography is stop-motion, the music is ethereal, the scenery is often ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Paul Reynolds, Phillip Williamson, Judi Dench, Dave Baby
Votes: 912
15. Caravaggio (1986)
93 min | Biography, Drama, History
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Noam Almaz, Dexter Fletcher, Nigel Terry, Sean Bean
Votes: 7,024 | Gross: $0.00M
16. Aria (1987)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
10 short films by 10 different directors, set to arias by different composers.
Directors: Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, Julien Temple | Stars: John Hurt, Theresa Russell, Stephanie Lane, Roy Hyatt
Votes: 3,105 | Gross: $1.03M
17. The Last of England (1987)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, 'Spring' Mark Adley, Gerrard McArthur
Votes: 1,491
18. Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama
Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn
Votes: 6,541 | Gross: $1.65M
19. Ostia (1987)
26 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Pier Paolo Pasolini takes up with a young man and journeys to Ostia, and his death.
Director: Julian Cole | Stars: Derek Jarman, David Dipnall, Oliver Haden, Dominic Power
Votes: 107
20. War Requiem (1989)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, War
A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes
Votes: 945
21. The Garden (1990)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama
A nearly wordless visual narrative inter cuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald, Pete Lee-Wilson
Votes: 1,129 | Gross: $0.01M
22. Strip Jack Naked: Nighthawks II (1991)
Unrated | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Ron Peck talks about his experiences of growing up as a gay man, the attitudes to homosexuality in Britain, and his journey towards making his film Nighthawks (1978).
Director: Ron Peck | Stars: Ron Peck, John Brown, John Daimon, Nick Bolton
Votes: 124
23. Edward II (1991)
R | 87 min | Drama, History, Romance
In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch
Votes: 3,037 | Gross: $0.69M
24. The Smiths: The Complete Picture (1992 Video)
50 min | Music
Thirteen Smiths' recordings, half of them in a club with a live audience. These alternate with five rock videos, two directed by Derek Jarman (Panic and Ask), two by Tim Broad (Girlfriend ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard Levine, Tim Broad, Paula Greif, Derek Jarman | Stars: Morrissey, Craig Gannon, Mike Joyce, Johnny Marr
Votes: 225
25. Projections (1993 Video)
Not Rated | 46 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant
Votes: 31
26. The Clearing (1994)
7 min | Short
An unidentified walker is lured through the woods by the distant sound of a saxophone. He is drawn past inviting groups of men, a woman picnicking, and a boy eating an apple.
Director: Alexis Bistikas | Stars: Travis B., Kieron Carroll, Rad Chambers, Laurent Chaumet
Votes: 85
27. Wittgenstein (1993)
Not Rated | 72 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Clancy Chassay, Jill Balcon, Sally Dexter, Gina Marsh
Votes: 2,932
28. Blue (1993)
Not Rated | 79 min | Biography, Drama
In his final - and most daring - cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen, laying bare his physical and spiritual state.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin, Nigel Terry
Votes: 2,736 | Gross: $1.72M
29. 21st Century Nuns (1994)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Brief portrait of a British wing of an order of gay male nuns.
Director: Tom Stephan | Star: Derek Jarman
Votes: 26
30.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Glitterbug
(1994)
60 min | Documentary
The home movies of Derek Jarman, chronicling his life.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Adam Ant, Dave Baby, William S. Burroughs, Michael Clark
Votes: 243
31. Pet Shop Boys: A Life in Pop (2006 TV Movie)
142 min | Documentary, Music
After twenty years in the pop business, this is a celebration of the lives, work, and achievements of the Pet Shop Boys. Following Neil's education and upbringing in Newcastle, and Chris's ... See full summary »
Director: George Scott | Stars: Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Robbie Williams, Richard Blade
Votes: 118
32. Derek (2008)
76 min | Documentary
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.
Directors: Isaac Julien, Bernard Rose | Stars: David Hockney, Derek Jarman, Chris Lowe, John Lydon
Votes: 336
33. Derek Jarman: Life as Art (2004)
57 min | Documentary, Biography
Portrait of the artist/film maker Derek Jarman as told by those who knew him best.
Director: Andy Kimpton-Nye | Stars: Tariq Ali, Jill Balcon, Simon Fisher-Turner, Christopher Hobbs
Votes: 52
34. Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman (2009)
12 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Delphinium is a stylized and lyrical portrait of artist Derek Jarman's childhood awakening in 1950s England. Acquired for preservation by the British Film Institute's National Archive, ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Mishory | Stars: Sam Garfield, Jeremiah Dupre, Kevin Collins, Edward Singletary
Votes: 54
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