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jackhammer · 03-18-2008, 06:16 PM

DEREK JARMAN -BLUE

Can you handle a pure blue screen for 80 minutes with only narration and sound efx to sate yourself? Derek Jarman was nearly blind and only a few months away from death when he made this film. His career dates back to the late 70's with his savagely subversive Jubilee which is widely attributed as the first UK Punk movie. A major *** activist Jarmans movies have astonished and annoyed in equal measure. If I can take a neutral stance, Jarman had an innate sense of the moving image as art form yet his projects never fully realised his vision. Whether this is through lack of budget or lack of a cohesive vision has never been proved. Blue is infuriatingly brilliant. A total blue screen for 80 minutes is egotistical and is the complete antithesis of what cinema is. Yet it is watchable and poses questions that i can't frankly answer regarding audio and visual stimuli and the role they play in cinema today.

03-18-2008, 06:16 PM	#783 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	DEREK JARMAN -BLUE Can you handle a pure blue screen for 80 minutes with only narration and sound efx to sate yourself? Derek Jarman was nearly blind and only a few months away from death when he made this film. His career dates back to the late 70's with his savagely subversive Jubilee which is widely attributed as the first UK Punk movie. A major *** activist Jarmans movies have astonished and annoyed in equal measure. If I can take a neutral stance, Jarman had an innate sense of the moving image as art form yet his projects never fully realised his vision. Whether this is through lack of budget or lack of a cohesive vision has never been proved. Blue is infuriatingly brilliant. A total blue screen for 80 minutes is egotistical and is the complete antithesis of what cinema is. Yet it is watchable and poses questions that i can't frankly answer regarding audio and visual stimuli and the role they play in cinema today. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”