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Derek Jarman's brave nude world
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DEREK JARMAN
by Tony Peake
(Little, Brown, 25)
NAKED Roman soldiers frolicking in a pool; naked rugby players
scrumming down; naked shipwrecked sailors dancing to Stormy Weather:
welcome to Derek Jarman's brave nude world. The director of such
films as Sebastiane, Edward II and The Tempest was also a painter,
stage designer, gardener and diarist.
He believed "a boy's arse is the hole to heaven" and spent most of
his life trying to get in there. He died of Aids in 1994.
Tony Peake considers Jarman's death so significant that he begins
his biography with his funeral.
This dreadful book is ...
 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)")
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(book review)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
; Derek Jarman: A Biography * Tony Peake * Overlook * $40 It's no exaggeration to say that Derek Jarman's life and work were filled with contradictions...the senses. In his new biography, Derek Jarman, Tony Peake shows where the contradictory impulses...
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Derek Jarman: A Portrait.(Review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; ...film, video, painting, and literary memoirs, Derek Jarman (1942-1994) always resisted definitions...Three new works on Jarman - Michael O'Pray's Derek Jarman Dreams of England, Derek Jarman: A Portrait, and Chris Lippard's anthology...
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By Angles Driven: The Films of Derek Jarman.(Review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; ...film, video, painting, and literary memoirs, Derek Jarman (1942-1994) always resisted definitions...Three new works on Jarman - Michael O'Pray's Derek Jarman Dreams of England, Derek Jarman: A Portrait, and Chris Lippard's anthology...
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Derek Jarman Dreams of England.(Review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; ...film, video, painting, and literary memoirs, Derek Jarman (1942-1994) always resisted definitions...Three new works on Jarman - Michael O'Pray's Derek Jarman Dreams of England, Derek Jarman: A Portrait, and Chris Lippard's anthology...
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Derek Jarman 1942-94: a political death. (Obituary)
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; The death of Derek Jarman robs us not only of one of cinema's most imaginative postwar independent...The sky is rarely a safe place in his films. Yet there was also a Derek Jarman whose tastes lay with the traditions and conventions of the pastoral...
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(book review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
; The late Derek Jarman made innovative, accessible pop-music videos for the Smiths, the...market the artist's every last scribbling and photograph), including Derek Jarman's Garden (published in 1995) and At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament...
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Screen Play.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; ...infuse black and gay identity politics with the libertine radicality celebrated in the works of his heroes Pasolini and Derek Jarman. Since 1995, Julien has also produced multi-screen video installations for the gallery. In the most comprehensive exhibition...
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Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism.
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; ...industry during a period of cultural and political repression. Derek Jarman, Sally Potter, Stephen Frears, Terence Davies and other British...Thatcher political era, it was filmmakers such as Neil Jordan, Derek Jarman, and Stephen Frears who commanded the lion's share of global...
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Derek.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; When Derek Jarman died of AIDS in 1994, he left behind one of the contemporary avant-garde's most stunning bodies of work--films, paintings, writings...
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This week on Advocate.com. (On the Web).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
; ...movies The 1996 film Beautiful Thing--about two high school boys who fall in love--finally comes to DVD this month, along with Derek Jarman's 1976 gay classic Sebastiane. Alonso Duralde reviews the new editions exclusively on Advocate.com. Q & A Are you ready...
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