Derek Jarman was one of the leaders of the New Queer Cinema in the late 1980s-90s, whose innovative work intertwined culture and politics. His controversial movies were meant to shock viewers with his ...

The first time I dropped acid was in 1988. That night I watched Derek Jarman's Caravaggio, a radical retelling of the famed painter's life, full of homoerotic images and pithy quotes like "The stars ...

The young gays of our generation, sadly, we are so easy to forget. We're too focused on being trendy, indie, hot, now, cool – we barely have time to take in a breath of today or tomorrow, let alone ...

From Derek Jarman's 1984 "Manifesto" I’m not sure you can blame anyone. It’s 20 years since Derek died and people want to remember him, bring him back, reveal him to a new generation, and there’s ...

February, marking both Black History Month and Valentine’s Day, is the kind of stretch from which a programmer can mine plenty. Accordingly the Criterion Channel have oriented their next slate around ...

BLUE was Derek Jarman's final film. Completed in May 1993, just months before his death, it is his testament. For 74 minutes, an unchanging screen of celestial blue is accompanied by voices which ...

Toyah Willcox as Miranda in 'The Tempest' There are also many interviews with collaborators and actors, from designer Christopher Hobbs, producer Don Boyd, artist and film-maker John Scarlett-Davis ...

British director Neil Bartlett and actor Russell Tovey have worked together to create a special live performance of Blue (1993) originally created by the leading British artist and filmmaker Derek ...