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Article: `JARMAN' TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- January 11, 2001
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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 iconography, so he would be pleased to know that the first major rendering of his life surpasses the combined length of the four Gospels. For the less reverently inclined, the epic scope of Tony Peake's biography raises a knotty puzzle. How much is too much?
First a proposed yardstick: A book that spreads 52 years across 613 pages, that takes 120 pages to spring its subject from school and more than 200 pages to get to his first directorial effort, is most likely too ...