Derek Jarman
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‘I wish my parents were alive so I could tell them I’m a concept’: Tilda Swinton and Julio Torres on elves, slaps and giving dignity to toilets
Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen
Hacked Game Boys and horseplay! Jarman award shortlist celebrates thinking outside the box
Video artists Larry Achiampong and Rosalind Nashashibi are among those nominated for the prestigious £10,000 prize – which has a strong record of spotting UK art talent
Standing stones, urban hellscapes and male nudes: Derek Jarman’s glorious Super 8 short films
The easy freedom of this medium allowed the artist to range over subjects as diverse as Tarot, male nudes at Fire Island and a friend’s flat – and offer clues to his more public feature films
Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s seaside home – in pictures
Photography: inside Derek Jarman’s home
Christopher Hobbs obituary
Production designer who worked on Caravaggio and The Garden for Derek Jarman and provided the sets for the BBC’s Gormenghast
Ranked
Dench, Swinton and Biggins: all Derek Jarman’s feature films – ranked! It’s 30 years this week since the death of the celebrated arthouse auteur. Across historical romps, dystopian nightmares and homoerotic poetry, we rate Jarman’s finest full-length films
Medicine for Scrooge McDuck: Jarman award-winner Rehana Zaman on the recipe for her mind-bending art
You ask the questions
‘I am all for strangeness’: Tilda Swinton on artistic integrity, acting and the afterlife
Terence Davies obituary
Director who drew on his Liverpool upbringing in evocative films such as Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes
Surveillance, swimming and sexy slugs: 2023 Film London Jarman award nominees announced
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: Blues for An Alabama Sky, Macbeth and more
The week in theatre: August in England; Blue Now; The Vortex – review
Lenny Henry draws his audience deep into the life – and its shattering – of a Windrush evictee; Derek Jarman’s final film is reverentially revisited; and Lia Williams and son ignite Noël Coward at his darkest
Blue Now review – remarkable retelling of Derek Jarman’s final film
Searing collection of diary excerpts from the time, brought to life by prominent queer voices, recalls the devastation of Aids with fury and frankness
‘It’s Shakespeare – as important as any modern piece of work’: Derek Jarman’s Blue comes to the stage
Russell Tovey, Simon Fisher Turner, Travis Alabanza and Neil Bartlett are teaming up to reimagine the director’s final film – a narrated meditation over a static blue screen – as a ‘thank you’ to the LGBTQ+ hero
From the Guardian archive
Derek Jarman’s Jubilee reviewed – archive, 1978Irish punks New Pagans on darning, domesticity and Derek Jarman: ‘Home is an extension of your art’
‘You might as well be on the moon’: the authors taking residence in Derek Jarman’s home
Beyond Movietown: Derek Jarman’s lost ‘novel’ echoes through his oeuvre
‘She disappears or goes blank like Garbo’: the enigma of Tilda Swinton
The British actor’s new films show the full spectrum of her capabilities as the most unconventional of Hollywood A-listers
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