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Derek Jarman's Blue [VHS] [1993]
 
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Derek Jarman's Blue [VHS] [1993]

VHS ~ Derek Jarman
4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Derek Jarman, John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton
  • Format: HiFi Sound, PAL, Widescreen
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • VHS Release Date: 29 Nov 1993
  • Run Time: 75 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CNW1
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,912 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Derek Jarman records his thoughts and experiences as he battles with the HIV virus. His own words are delivered by John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton and Derek Jarman himself. The music is provided by Simon Fisher Turner.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Not as daft as it sounds, 18 Mar 2002
By Paul Westerman (West Sussex) - See all my reviews
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Yes, it's just a blue screen. No, it doesn't change. At all. And yet I could think of no better way to relate Jarman's story; glimpses of a fascinating life and a brilliant director's mind, juxtaposed with the inexorable progression of the illness that he knows will kill him.

It's easy to dismiss this as an attempt to be different, to be deliberately 'arty' or pretentious. Indeed, it does give the impression of being more art installation than film in the conventional sense. But don't be put off by what you might have heard; this film is thought-provoking, touching, even humorous at times, and the constancy of the image is part of the story.

The soundtrack features astounding audio effects and music throughout, and therefore (however strange it may seem), this film really needs a DVD release to do it justice.

Anyone interested in film should see this.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Derek Jarman give us a Cinema lesson, 19 Feb 2001
You can see just a Blue screen. Next you have rumors and voices. The Marrator is Jarman himself. The story is the development of his young life. A very immaginative and besic movie without pictures but the Mind pictures. Masterpiece.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, 16 April 2006
Indeed, a masterpiece, a work of film genius. Yes I suppose it is about Jarman's failing sight, and life; but he knew where he stood in art's history and he knew that painting had finally to deal with film (the subject of Caravaggio). He also knew that there's an artistic tradition to this kind of depiction, and we see it in the heroic, sublime abstractions of Mark Rothko and Barnet Newman. Discovering the impasse of illusionistic representation, and needing to dig deep into the question of humanity's relation to images, they produced vast philosophical canvases. But they lack Blue's beautiful incandescence and its human voice. Watch it in the dark, in silence, meditate upon it; and think about what a film is.
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i first saw this movie when i was 12 as part of bbc2's early 90s AIDS awareness week. i was sucked in by the the blue sceen and relentless, sad words of an illness that i was... Read more
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