The Films Of Derek Jarman: Rubell Family Collection
Talk about a man at the right place at the right time. Derek Jarman (1942-1994) flew fast and furious in his career lensing 11 feature films and over 36 shorts. When punk exploded, changing the English cultural scene forever, Jarman was there with "Jubilee". When the New Queer Cinema bandwagon started to roll, he was right there with "Caravaggio". He continued to take his idiosyncratic point-of-view on historical subjects in the 90's wih "Edward II" "Wittgenstein". Nobody ever spoke more eloquently about the films of Derek Jarman than his close friend and frequent lead actress than Tilda Swinton. She said ina 2002 talk at the Edinburgh Film Festival:
"This is what I miss, there being no more Derek Jarman films: the mess, the vulgarity, the cant, the poetry, the edge, the pictures, Simon Fisher Turner’s music, the real faces, the intellectualism, the science, the bad temperedness, the good temperedness, the cheek, the standards, the anarchy, the gauchness, the romanticism, the classicism, the optimism, the activism, the challenge, the longeurs, the glee, the playfulness, the bumptiousness, the resistance, the wit, the fight, the colours, the grace, the passion, the goodness, the beauty...."
The Rubell Family Collection is staging the for films mentioned above over the next four Saturdays, starting Jan 18th. If in Miami please make the pilgrimage.
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