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Glitterbox

Title
Glitterbox [videorecording] / Derek Jarman.
Published
[New York] : Zeitgeist Video, [2008]
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (313 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + insert ([17] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.)
Notes
Title from container.
Titles on disc labels: Derek Jarman's The angelic conversation, Derek Jarman's Caravaggio, Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein, Derek Jarman's Blue.
Issued in slipcase.
Special features include interviews with Jarman, actors, producers, and film crew; behind-the-scenes footage; trailer for Caravaggio; video introduction for Wittgenstein by Ian Christie; The clearing (1994 short film by Alex Bistikas featuring Jarman); Glitterbug (54 min. posthumous collage of Jarman footage, with original music by Brian Eno).
DVD producer, Shannon Attaway.
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Summary
A collection of 4 films by director Derek Jarman, whose "lush, experimental reflections on art, politics, sexuality and identity transcend and subvert ... the period costume drama, the biopic--as well as the boundaries of so-called gay filmmaking"--Container.
The angelic conversation: Ethereal super-8 mélange of homoerotic love, layered with languorous music by Coil and emotive readings of Shakespeare sonnets by Judi Dench.
Caravaggio: The volatile life of the 17th-century painter re-imagined through his brilliant near-blasphemous paintings and flirtations with the Roman underworld.
Wittgenstein: "Portrait of the irreverent 20th-century philosopher who preferred detective fiction and Carmen Miranda musicals to Aristotle"--Container.
Blue: Over a blue screen, Derek Jarman lays bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS, and his encroaching sightlessness.
Variant and related titles
Glitter box
Additional title on container: Derek Jarman x 4
Derek Jarman times four
Derek Jarman's The angelic conversation.
Derek Jarman's Caravaggio.
Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein.
Derek Jarman's Blue.
Angelic conversation.
Caravaggio.
Wittgenstein.
Blue.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 11, 2011
Credits
DVD producer, Shannon Attaway.
Cast
Judi Dench (narrator, The angelic conversation), Nigel Terry (Caravaggio), Karl Johnson (Wittgenstein).
System details note
DVD (NTSC, region 1).
Contents
The angelic conversation / Derek Jarman (1985, 78 min.)
Caravaggio / Derek Jarman (1986, 90 min.)
Wittgenstein / Derek Jarman (1993, 69 min.)
Blue / Derek Jarman (1993, 76 min.).
Videorecording number
Z1100 Zeitgeist Video
Genre/Form
Experimental films.
Biographical films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
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