Jubilee - Criterion Collection

Jubilee - Criterion Collection
by Derek Jarman

Jubilee - Criterion Collection

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Actor: Hermine Demoriane, Jenny Runacre, Jordan (III), Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox
Director: Derek Jarman
Brand: JARMAN,DEREK
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion

DVD Reviews of Jubilee - Criterion Collection

DVD Review: Good only for the music and scenes of London, but nothing else
Summary: 3 Stars

The dialogue is over-the-top pretentious and the acting is not even good enough to be considered second-rate, but the music and setting make this a film worth watching. I just watch it piecemeal now(ie-the musical performances and some panorama shots that are interesting), as I cannot stomach the silly, preachy almost 'Clockwork Orange-y' type dialogue that is supposed to be foreboding and cryptic, it would seem. Still, aside from that, looking at how similar the punk styles still are to this day is nearly as interesting as anything else.

DVD Review: Late 70s Art Film
Summary: 5 Stars

I had been warned how really rotten this film was by other Adam Ant fans; however, I tried to watch this film fairly and judge it for myself and found out that I loved it! It is a true late 1970s "art" film in my opinion. Poorly written, bad camera work, sets & costumes from the company's own stuff. The film's "storyline" is loose and hardly apparent, but that is part of the enjoyment I got. Basically, I see this as a bunch of London-based friends and scene makers getting together to play at making a, what would have been university-level (at the time,) class project. Don't expect something even as polished as The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This was a "first" for many (most?) of those involved and it shows - and that is its charm.

DVD Review: Two for the price of one
Summary: 1 Stars

This is a movie of great economy; in most parodies, you need a dyad: a parodeer, and a parodee; this movie, however, is such a massive parody of itself that you can't imagine it referring to anything external to itself. It is a self-contained circle of risibility, a window painted black, an arrow that is its own target.
One thing could have salvaged this film: Austin Powers, his time machine stalled on the way to the sixties, pops up with his cross-eyed, beaver-toothed mug, and ejaculates: O Beehive!

DVD Review: punk Ficton
Summary: 3 Stars

Not quit what I was expecting but interesting all the same. acting was a little amateur and story jumped around a bit. Didn't get the point of the movie. Would suit cult punk fans

DVD Review: "This is the generation that grew up and forgot to lead their lives"
Summary: 5 Stars

Derek Jarman didn't set out to make a "punk film", he set out to make "a film about punk", and many people don't like his interpretations. As a disaffected ex-punk, I found his interpretations poignant and honest, to the point where I could see how it would enrage people. People, especially posh kids playing at being lower-class for a time, don't generally like brutal honesty.

One of Jarman's working titles for this film was _High Fashion: An Anarchic Comedy about Sex & Violence_, and while the subject matter and plot are disturbingly nihilistic and there's this intense overtone of depressiveness amongst the primary characters, the comical elements are rather apparent, though probably too dry or deadpan for some people on either side of the pond. Jarman also uses humour to make some clear points about youth's relationship with history and tradition, nationalism, homophobia, the modern state of the monarchy, and other socially relevant concepts that are still important today, no matter how much some people insist otherwise.

The Criterion DVD also contains many special features, including a cinematic trailer and scans and transcriptions from Derek Jarman's _Jubilee_ scrapbook, a documentary with interviews of people who were in the cast and crew, and loads and loads of promotional stills. The highlight of the "scrapbook" portion of the features, in my opinion, is the photo of Jarman wearing Vivienne Westwood's infamous, incredibly incoherent, and nauseatingly homophobic "Open Lettre (T-Shirt) to Derek Jarman", followed by a transcription of the text of the t-shirt -- this will single-handedly destroy any misconceptions one may have of the public face of "punk" ever being progressive or at least open-minded.

Description of Jubilee - Criterion Collection

When Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the future, she's transported 400 years to a post-apocalyptic wasteland of roving girl gangs, an all-powerful media mogul, fascistic police, scattered filth, and twisted sex. With Jubilee, legendary British filmmaker Derek Jarman channeled political dissent and artistic daring into a revolutionary blend of history and fantasy, musical and cinematic experimentation, satire and anger, fashion and philosophy. With its uninhibited punk petulance and sloganeering, Jubilee, brings together many cultural and musical icons of the time, including Jordan, Toyah Willcox, Little Nell, Wayne County, Adam Ant, and Brian Eno (with his first original film score), to create a genuinely unique, unforgettable vision. Ahead of its time and often frighteningly accurate in its predictions, it is a fascinating historical document and a gorgeous work of film art.

Avant-garde spirit and punk-rock attitude combine with iconoclastic results in Derek Jarman's defiantly uncommercial Jubilee. Filmed in 1977--the silver jubilee year of England's Queen Elizabeth II--this fascinating hodgepodge of political dissent and audiovisual experimentation now stands as a vibrant document of its time, both immediate and enduring in its bold rejection of all things conventional. (Compared to this, the quasi-punk Repo Man and angst-ridden Sid & Nancy seem positively tame.) Jarman's film deserved its mixed reviews; like the films of Andy Warhol, it's a slapdash affair, cobbled together by Jarman and his fringe-dwelling friends, ostensibly designed as a kaleidoscopic glimpse of London's future, infused with apocalyptic nihilism and populated by proto-punks (including Adam Ant and Rocky Horror's Little Nell) in an anarchic orgy of gay and straight sex, music, violence, and (in retrospect) astonishingly accurate pop-cultural prophesy. It's the pioneering, angry/funny work of a genuine artist, as essential to punk film as the Sex Pistols were to music in the dreadful days of disco. --Jeff Shannon

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