Intense, dreamlike, and poetic, The Angelic Conversation is one of the most artistic of Derek Jarman’s films. With his painter’s eye, Jarman conjured, in a beautiful palette of light, colour and texture, an evocative and radical visualisation of Shakespeare’s love poems.

Of the 154 sonnets written by Shakespeare, most were written to an unnamed young man, commonly referred to as the Fair Youth. Here, Judi Dench’s emotive readings of 14 sonnets are coupled with ethereal sequences; figures on seashores, by streams and in colourful gardens. The disruption of these magical scenes with images of barren and threatening landscapes echoes perfectly the celebration and torment of love explored in the sonnets.

Shot on Super-8 before being transferred to 35mm film, the unique technical approach results in a striking aesthetic, with Coil’s languorous soundtrack completing the intoxicating effect.

The.Angelic.Conversation.1985.720p.BluRay.x264.FLAC.2.0-dps.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 20 min
Size: 	5.07 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	984x720 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	8 401 kb/s
BPP: 	0.494
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch FLAC @ 599 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/7E0BF2E7B721965/The.Angelic.Conversation.1985.720p.BluRay.x264.FLAC.2.0-dps.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Derek Jarman – The Angelic Conversation (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors of war. There is no linear story or dialo…

War.Requiem.1989.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 32mn
Size: 	2.45 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1020x576 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 563 Kbps
BPP: 	0.253
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 144 Kbps
#2:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 76.1 Kbps (Commentary with Producer Don Boyd)

https://nitro.download/view/49AD555BAFF6D69/War.Requiem.1989.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Derek Jarman – War Requiem (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

	
Caravaggio.1986.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 32 min
Size: 	2.98 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x552 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	4 399 kb/s
BPP: 	0.324
Audio
#1:  	English 1.0ch AAC LC @ 118 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 74.5 kb/s (Commentary by cinematographer Gabriel Beristan)

https://nitro.download/view/3459DA3592511EE/Caravaggio.1986.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):English, Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Derek Jarman – Caravaggio (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.

Wittgenstein.1993.576p.BluRay.x264.AAC.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 11 min
Size: 	1.52 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	948x576 ~> 948x592
Aspect ratio:  	16:10
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 619 kb/s
BPP: 	0.200
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 400 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/4E63E5DD55A7C37/Wittgenstein.1993.576p.BluRay.x264.AAC.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Derek Jarman – Wittgenstein (1993) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Pier Paolo Pasolini takes up with a young man and journeys to Ostia, and his death.

Quote:
Ostia is a fascinating short film directed by Julian Cole and produced for the Royal College of Art, which reconstructs the events leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Ostia relocates the proceedings to London and stars Derek Jarman as Pasolini. The film features an evocative dream sequence which is accompanied by poignant excerpts from Pasolin’s own poetry, as read by Jarman.

Ostia.1987.1080p.BluRay.x264-BiPOLAR.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	26 min 46 s
Size: 	2.10 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1440x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	10.9 Mb/s
BPP: 	0.292
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch FLAC @ 331 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/F0965E9870AA985/Ostia.1987.1080p.BluRay.x264-BiPOLAR.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Julian Cole – Ostia (1987) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
A collection of Super 8 films shot by Derek Jarman between 1972 and 1975, edited to the music of Throbbing Gristle.

Derek Jarman used some of his 70s home movie footage to produce this wonderful piece of exploitational avantgarde cinema. Actually the original material has been slowed down to a speed of 3-6 frames, then Jarman added colour effects and the pulsating, menacing score by Industrial supergroup Throbbing Gristle

The result is a piece of art not to dissimilar to Jarman´s painting work in using found footage as elements of memory and mind that resemble ideas reflected in the Cabala and in C.G. Jung`s writings about an archetypical past that is hidden in everyone of us.

Derek Jarman - (1981) In the Shadow of the Sun.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	58 min 54 s
Size: 	891 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	760x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 921 kb/s
BPP: 	0.183
Audio
#1:  	English 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/6B1DE3874EFECDE/Derek_Jarman_-_(1981)_In_the_Shadow_of_the_Sun.mkv

Language(s):None
Subtitles:None

The post Derek Jarman – In the Shadow of the Sun (1981) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Produced for the 1984 London Film Festival, Derek Jarman’s Imagining October is a dreamlike meditation on art and politics in the final years of the Cold War. In this film Jarman explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite Britain. The title refers to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and Sergei Eisenstein’s propaganda film October: Ten Days That Shook the World 1928.

Imagining October (1984).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	27mn 5s
Size: 	260 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	674x540 
Aspect ratio:  	5:4
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	
BPP: 	
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC

https://nitro.download/view/2F2088C3CA3518A/Imagining_October_(1984).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None (no dialogue)

The post Derek Jarman – Imagining October (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.