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Derek Jarman 4-DVD Boxset (E-Mik - 2005-11-11) 4 Discs (340 minutes) Region: 2 - Suitable for 18 years and over Starring: Dave Baby, Timothy Burke, Simon Costin, Christopher Hobbs, Philip McDonald. Derek Jarman 4-DVD Boxset: Italy released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), Italian ( Mono ), Italian ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Box Set, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: 4-DVD Boxset containing:; Blue: Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.; Caravaggio: Writer/director Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm in this biography of Renaissance artist Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio. Nigel Terry plays the title role, whom (according to; Jarman) essentially told his own life story in his paintings. Caravaggio travelled among thieves and prostitutes, many of whom were his models. He once killed a man, kept a deaf/mute child as a virtual slave, and squandered every penny he ever made. That we should care anything about so miserable and obscure a personality is a tribute to Jarman's filmmaking savvy--and the number of elements from his own well-publicized life that he injects into the film.; Edward II: A biography, based on the Christopher Marlowe play, of Britain's only acknowledged gay monarch (1307-1327), whose preference for his male lover over his queen created conflict with his barons and eventually led to civil war.; Angelic Conversation: 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 elemental: boulders and smaller rocks, the sea, smoke or fog, and a garden. The man is on an odyssey following his love. But he must first, as the sonnet says, know what conscience is. So, before he can be united with his love, he must purify himself...Derek Jarman 4-DVD Boxset |
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