Derek Jarman Collection - 4-DVD Box Set ( Blue / Caravaggio / Edward II / The Angelic Conversation )

Derek Jarman Collection - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Blue / Caravaggio / Edward II / The Angelic Conversation
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Italian ( Mono )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
340 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1985-1993 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Derek Jarman

Written By:
Derek Jarman
Nicholas Ward Jackson
Ken Butler
Steve Clark-Hall

Actors:
Dave Baby ..... Narrator
Timothy Burke
Simon Costin
Christopher Hobbs
Philip McDonald
Toby Mott
Steve Randall
Robert Sharp
Tony Wood
Judi Dench
Paul Reynolds
Phillip Williamson
John Quentin ..... (voice)
Nigel Terry ..... (voice)
Derek Jarman ..... (voice)
Tilda Swinton ..... (voice)
Noam Almaz ..... Boy Caravaggio
Dawn Archibald ..... Pipo
Sean Bean ..... Ranuccio
Jack Birkett ..... The Pope
Sadie Corre ..... Princess Collona
Una Brandon-Jones ..... Weeping Woman
Imogen Claire ..... Lady with the Jewels
Robbie Coltrane ..... Scipione Borghese
Garry Cooper ..... Davide
Lol Coxhill ..... Old Priest
Nigel Davenport ..... Giustiniani
Vernon Dobtcheff ..... Art Lover
Terry Downes ..... Bodyguard
Dexter Fletcher ..... Young Caravaggio
Michael Gough ..... Cardinal Del Monte
Steven Waddington ..... Edward II
Kevin Collins ..... Lightborn, the Jailor
Andrew Tiernan ..... Piers Gaveston
John Lynch ..... Spencer
Dudley Sutton ..... Bishop of Winchester
Tilda Swinton ..... Isabella
Jerome Flynn ..... Kent
Jody Graber ..... Prince Edward
Nigel Terry ..... Mortimer
Jill Balcon ..... Chorus of Nobility
Barbara New ..... Chorus of Nobility
Andrea Miller ..... Chorus of Nobility
Brian Mitchell ..... Chorus of Nobility
David Glover ..... Chorus of Nobility
John Quentin ..... Chorus of Nobility

Synopsis:

Blue (1993)
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 color blue.
Caravaggio (1986)
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
Edward II (1991)
Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by taking as lover besides his diplomatic wife, the French princess Isabel, not an acceptable lady at court but the ambitious Piers Gaveston, who uses his favor in bed even to wield political influence - the stage is set for a palace revolt which sends the gay pair from the throne to a terminal torture dungeon.
The Angelic Conversation (1987)
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.

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. He does so, bathing a tattooed figure (an angel, perhaps) and humbling himself in front of this being. He also prepares himself with water and through his journey and his meditations. Finally, he is united with his fair friend.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 29 December, 2006.

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