Derek Jarman's `Blue'

The Washington Post;  February 11, 1994 ;     427 words ......hallucination. You are watching Derek Jarman's accurately named "Blue." The only visual highlights...colors, you listen to them, as Jarman et al speak of "blue funk," "bluebottle buzzing...the fathomless bliss of blue." Jarman, who has made a consistently...

Imagination powers Jarman's `Blue'

The Boston Globe;  February 11, 1994 ;     402 words ......this weekend only Unrated "Blue," Derek Jarman's AIDS opus, is a difficult...mind-bending. It's a Rorschach test. Jarman's blue is an indigo that grows hazier...the words. As what may be Jarman's final statement, "Blue" is a powerful experiment...

`Blue' a Tribute to Director's Life, Death

Chicago Sun-Times;  May 20, 1994 ;     382 words ...BLUE (STAR) (STAR) (STAR...directed by Derek Jarman. Running time: 76...expectations. For 76 minutes Jarman presents a screen...uninterrupted delphinium blue. The "action" of the...sky and sea. And, as Jarman noted in one of his last interviews, "Blue is the color of thought...

A Critic Reviews The Two Films `Blue'

NPR All Things Considered;  February 19, 1994 ;     674 words ......American audiences. Blue number one is by British director Derek Jarman [sp], and has no...do make feeling blue look awfully attractive. Derek Jarman's Blue is another sort...hypnotic effect of Blue. It pulses with Jarman's restless intelligence...

Classical Music / THE BLUE CONCERT QEH / RFH2, London

The Independent - London;  June 14, 1995 ;     361 words ......more a rite of communion. "Blue" was as in Derek Jarman's final film, Blue, and the baleful pallid rectangle...right the centre of attention. Jarman the writer supplied Quentin...aphorisms and reflections; Jarman the director's work was projected on to the blue in short sequences of ...

Appreciation; Derek Jarman's Artful History

The Washington Post;  February 27, 1994 ;     674 words ...Derek Jarman was not easily slowed. Despite...films; the last of them, "Blue," he made when he was almost...year. Less than a month ago, "Blue" played there and at the Biograph...It's 76 minutes of a solid blue screen, with the rich visual collage of Jarman's previous work shifted to...both ...

Book review: A beachcomber in the footsteps of Blake Derek Jarman by Tony...

The Independent - London;  November 21, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Whatever you think about Derek Jarman - and he wasn't one to discourage dissenters...clubs and assignations on Hampstead Heath, Jarman played the beachcomber, the alchemist...Biographer Tony Peake acknowledges that Jarman had a "compulsion to be promiscuous...

Dawn of new blue period

The Independent - London;  April 27, 1997 ;     278 words ......associations with nature, religion and beauty. Entitled "The Big Blue", the exhibition also examines the diversity of blue. It harks back to older associations such as the blue of Krishna, the Hindu god, and of lapis lazuli, the precious...throughout the ages. Before its association with Tatton sleaze, ...

`JARMAN' TOO MUCH OF A GOOD...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  January 11, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Louis Bayard DEREK JARMAN: A Biography By Tony Peake Overlook. 613 pages. $40 The film director Derek Jarman was fond of (among many things) Christian...reader, 613 pages might seem about right. Jarman, after all, is much better-known on that...

Jarman 'spoke of shooting'

The Press;  June 21, 2003 ;     506 words ...Defendant: Richard James Jarman, 47. Charges: murder and attempted murder. . Richard James Jarman had spoken of shooting his estranged wife and...Christchurch has been told. The Crown alleges Jarman, 47, opened fire on the couple with a shotgun...

Jarman's home 'full of threats'

The Press;  August 22, 2002 ;     442 words ...Accused: Richard James Jarman Charges: murder, attempted murder, unlawful...semi-automatic rifle . Richard James Jarman's household was full of constant threats...District Court. Kevin Ward said that after Jarman's separation from his wife, Gayle, last...

British Film Makers: Derek Jarman

Film International;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...British Film Makers: Derek Jarman Roland Wymer (2005)/Review by Ryan...Roland Wymer's contribution on Derek Jarman to a series which has previously covered...the outset Wymer states that Derek Jarman was 'Unashamedly auteurist in his conception...

Hospital term faced by Jarman

The Press;  August 2, 2003 ;     515 words ...Richard James Jarman's deteriorating health means his nine...Reid said after the sentencing. Gayle Jarman, who lost an arm when fired on by her...on him again -- unless it's in a box." Jarman, 48, found guilty in June of the manslaughter...

Obituary: Derek Jarman

The Independent - London;  February 21, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Derek Jarman, painter and film- maker: born Northwood, Middlesex...January 1942; died London 19 February 1994. DEREK JARMAN's death robs British cinema of its most vital force. For 20 years Jarman has been a constantly innovative figure, breaking...

Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea

Film International;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Steven Dillon Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea...of Texas Press, 2004 IN HIS BOOK DEREK JARMAN and Lyric Film, Steven Dillon, a Professor...Bates College in Maine, examines Derek Jarman's eleven feature films within the context...