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VHS : Last of England

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starring: 'Spring' Rupert Audley, Gay Gaynor, Matthew Hawkins, Spencer Leigh, Gerrard McArthur directed by: Derek Jarman See Larger Image Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303504575 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6303504574 Label: Mystic Fire Video Manufacturer: Mystic Fire Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Mystic Fire Video Release Date: September 01, 1998 Running Time: 87 minutes Sales Rank: 60835 Studio: Mystic Fire Video Related Items: Edward II Glitterbox: Derek Jarman x 4 Jubilee - Criterion Collection Sebastiane The Tempest see more Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Well Made "The Last of England" Well Made Amos Lassen Derek Jarman's "The Last of England" is the director's personal commentary on the decline of England; it is a dark meditation on London after Margaret Thatcher. This is not a narrative film but an experimental montage if images and music and voice. Here is a powerful and evocative and stunning work that demands a degree of patience. The film challenges the politics of England in the 1980's. The main character ... Read More Rating: - Jarman's eroding England: "The Ice Age is Coming" The narrator speaks: " They say The Ice Age is coming...the weather has already changed. England dies a syncopated death. We must recreate ourselves. Our best minds are destroyed with a whimper. Can't you feel the days are getting shorter?" Thus, we are introduced to Derek Jarman's crumbling beloved England. "The death of the Middle-Class assures us this..." England. as seen through the 1987 eyes of experimental filmmaker Derek Jarman is at the brink of the Apocalypse; sense,reason,art,pleasure,memories ... Read More Rating: - The amazing, underappreciated Derek Jarman Derek Jarman is probably one of the most misunderstood and underappreciated filmmakers ever in the history of British cinema. He made very artistic, personal films in the 1980's, a decade not known for its dedication to cinematic (or any kind of) art. This, along with The Garden, are, in my opinion, his 2 best films. Shooting freely in video, super 8, 16mm, and 35mm, he creates his own fantastical universe. He is as big as an auteur as Fellini, Tarkovsky, Greenaway, etc., etc.. It's an amazing universe, as ... Read More Rating: - Camera... sound... revolution... "The last of England" is one of Jarman's collage movies. With that I mean that these films show no straight A to B narrative, no real main characters or meaningful dialogues; it's just an accumulation of stark, surreal and offbeat images, with highly experimental music and soundscapes, and a lot of underlying anger. More about that anger later on. Jarman made a handful of these speciffic kind of films. Before "The last of England" there was "The Angelic conversation", with mesmerising music by Coil, ... Read More Rating: - Boring and pretentious I've enjoyed other Jarman films: Edward II, Caravaggio, even Sebastian. But this one just doesn't connect. Blurry pictures of people shooting up drugs, pretending to have sex with posters of Caravaggio paintings, staging what appears to be a wedding. There's no dialog, just screeching music and voice-over readings that don't have much to do with the visuals. The point seems to be that the world (or Thatcher's England, anyhow) is an awful place. Well, you can watch the TV news and get the same message with less ... Read More see more

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