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Tilda Swinton
Author
Language
English
Description
Prolific artist, philosopher, writer, storyteller and "radical humanist" John Berger is the focus of this vivid four-part cinematic portrait. In 1973, he moved from urban London to the tiny Alpine village of Quincy. THE SEASONS IN QUINCY: FOUR PORTRAITS OF JOHN BERGER examines different aspects of Berger's life in this remote village in the Alps. In four seasonal chapters, the film combines ideas and motifs from his work with the texture and history...
3) Edward II
Author
Language
English
Description
In this new restoration of the iconic New Queer Cinema classic, Derek Jarman offers a postmodern take on Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama. Pleasure-seeking King Edward II sets the stage for a palace revolt by taking as a lover the ambitious Piers Gaveston - who uses his favor in bed to wield political influence - sending the gay pair from the throne to a terminal torture dungeon.
6) Derek
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton personally conducts an intimatecinematic commemoration of the life, times, and work of UK filmmaker,artist, and renegade Derek Jarman in Derek. Both a "heartbreaking and giddily alive biopic" and an "accomplished homage" (Art forum), Isaac Julien's Derek is a joyful requiem celebrating Derek Jarman's life, vision and legacy with the same maverick energy and affectionate creativity that made its subject one of the...
7) Deep water
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the 1968 nautical race sponsored by the Sunday Times of London in which contestants had to sail around the world solo and without stopping, focusing on amateur yachtsman Donald Crowhurst.
8) Julia
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
JULIA is an alcoholic and gets by on nickel-and-dime jobs. Seeing a financial opportunity after encountering a woman estranged from her son, Julia throws herself into a criminal plot that escalates beyond anything she ever imagined. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton narrates this inspiring documentary about everyday people taking action to save our environment and to fight climate change. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*...the movie is never less than stunning.*" - Daniel M. Gold, ***The New York Times***
10) Glitterbug
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A stunning collage of ecstatic Super-8 fragments, GLITTERBUG is a loving tribute to Derek Jarman posthumously assembled by friends from his prolific filming of everyday events and his experimental investigations of the format. Jarman’s vibrant photography combined with dynamic cutting reveals glimpses into his picaresque life, from London streets to Spanish countryside—with visions of dances, performances, intimate moments and quiet observations....
11) The Garden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, THE GARDEN was born of director Derek Jarman’s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the sluggardly response to the AIDS crisis—he had been diagnosed HIV-positive in 1988. Starring Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), this uniquely kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, making space in its breadth of vision for an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical number, nightmare...
12) War requiem
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
British cinema's enfant terrible teams with his muse Tilda Swinton and Laurence Olivier, for a spectacular and moving interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's 1961 orchestral masterpiece.
13) Blue
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
In his final and most daring cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness, BLUE is by turns poignant, amusing, poetic and philosophical. Official Selection at the **Edinburgh International Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **New York...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying The last of England is a lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. One of Jarman's most experimental and overwhelming works, he has Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) stalk through the remnants of industrial England, encountering visions of fascistic slaughter and sacrifice. These nightmares are cut together with his family's idyllic home movies,...
15) Wittgenstein
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A humorous portrait of one of the 20th century’s most influential philosophers. This self-tortured eccentric, who preferred detective fiction and the musicals of Carmen Miranda to Aristotle, is a fitting subject for Derek Jarman’s irreverent imagination. A visually stunning and profoundly entertaining work about modern philosophy and the dark genius that revolutionized it. Winner of Best Feature Film at the **Berlin International Film Festival**....
16) I Am Love
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
At the heart of the wealthy Recchi family is Tancredi Recchi's wife Emma (Tilda Swinton), whose existence is shocked to the core when she embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever. **Academy Award** nominee. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival**, **Berlin International Film Festival**, and the **Sundance Film Festival**.
17) Adaptation
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot.
18) Tania Libre
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
How does incarceration affect an artist’s psyche? In a fascinating and novel approach, we are allowed to eavesdrop on one of the world’s most celebrated—and daring—Cuban artists, Tania Bruguera’s session with Dr. Frank Ochberg, a New York-based psychiatrist. Bruguera visited Dr. Ochberg after spending eight months in prison accused for treason after announcing her intention to provide an uncensored platform for citizens in Havana to freely...
19) The Souvenir
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this exquisite story of first love, a woman falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man. Enigmatic and enrapturing, The Souvenir is a lush, dreamlike portrait of young adulthood. World Cinema - Dramatic Grand Jury Prize winner at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for a C.I.C.A.E. Award at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. "*Remember the name Honor Swinton Byrne. In Joanna...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains...