British filmmaker Derek Jarman was a rebel with a cause: illuminating the censored gay subtext of historical figures while embracing cinema’s wide visual vocabulary. hear dean otto’s interview on the ...

St. Sebastian, as painted by Botticelli, Rubens, and Titian, just to name a few, is easily the most bonerific of the Christian martyrs. It is this inarguable fact that fuels Derek Jarman’s totally ...

In Sebastiane, Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress’ 1976 film, the soon-to-be-martyred Roman soldier is warned by his friend Justin to stop fighting against their pagan authorities. “The truth,” Sebastiane ...

For this week’s edition of our queer film retrospective “A Gay Old Time,” we are getting down on our knees. And, in a surprising turn of events, it is actually not just for pleasure, but also for ...

I met Derek Jarman only once, at a film festival. It was a dreadful affair, as these things usually are, where the film-makers are plied with cheap drink and shuffled from screenings to interviews to ...

A quarter of a century after the death of Derek Jarman in February 1994, Adam Scovell looks back at one of the most radical artists of his day, and wonders where we might find his ilk today. All ...

Aesthetics and politics were inseparable for the British filmmaker Derek Jarman, whose life fed his art and vice versa. It is perhaps no surprise that “The Last of England” (1987), one of his most ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Towards the beginning of the late Derek Jarman's film Wittgenstein, the actor playing the Austrian philosopher declares: "If people ...

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 ...