"Director: Derek Jarman"

• Jubilee - 40th Anniversary Edition (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (18/06/2018) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The mythological past and bleak future converge on the sparse, grey streets of London in this cult classic of the punk era. Queen Elizabeth 1 and her occult aide Dr John Dee (brilliantly played by Jenny Runacre and Richard O'Brien, respectively) travel into the future, encountering the megalomania of big business as well as gangs of violent, marauding killers. Director Derek Jarman doesn't spare the shocks while electrifying punk rock numbers are delivered by Jayne County and Adam Ant Newly available as a Dual Format Edition for the very first time, the film is a 2K remaster from the original camera negatives, and comes bolstered by an extensive array of extras. Special Features: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition A Message from the Temple (1981, 5 mins) Toyah Wilcox: Being Mad (2014, 8 mins): The singer and actress looks back on her role in Jubilee Jordan remembers Jubilee (2018): Punk icon Jordan looks back on her friendship with Derek Jarman and the making if Jubilee Lee Drysdale remembers Jubilee (2018): Derek Jarman's friend and, later collaborator Lee Drysdale recalls his unconventional involvement in the making of Jubilee Jubilee image gallery Fully illustrated booklet with writing on the film by Will Fowler, an original review and full film credits

• Derek Jarman Volume Two: 1987-1994 (6-disc Limited Edition Blu-ray box set) | Blu Ray | (25/02/2019) from £14.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Spanning the years 1987-1994, this collection includes 6 feature films from director Derek Jarman, including The Last of England and Blue. The Last of England (1987) War Requiem (1989) The Garden (1990) Edward II (1991) Wittgenstein (1993) Blue (1993) Special Features: Face to Face (40 mins, 1993): in-depth interview with Derek Jarman by Jeremy Isaacs Audio commentary on The Last of England with producer James Mackay, lighting designer Christopher Hughes, production designer Christopher Hobbs and composer Simon Fisher Turner Audio commentary on War Requiem with Don Boyd Original trailers + many more extras TBC 100-page perfect-bound book with new essays of each of the included films, contemporary reviews and rare never-before-seen images from Jarman's archive, held by the BFI National Archive

• Wittgenstein | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wittgenstein is a bold offbeat biography of the Cambridge thinker who changed the way we think personalised in Jarmans unique style to address the politics and sexuality of the great but troubled man. The result is no dry treatise but a treat for eyes and mind alike.

• Caravaggio | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Jarman's most accessible works Caravaggio is a ravishingly shot depicition of the painter's life as he reminisces in jail cell. The look of Caravaggio's work is beautifully captured whilst the acting and direction are nothing short of superb.

• Sebastiane (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (18/03/2019) from £7.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jarman's first feature, directed with Paul Humfress, presents the controversial, sensual and sexualised story of the 4th century Praetorian Guard whose human goodness leads to humiliation and martyrdom. The heat of the Sardinian desert is powerfully captured on film - both cast and crew go through their paces, sweating it out Herzog-style while Brian Eno's distinctly moving score beautifully compliments the superb framing and stunning slow-motion photography. Sebastiane is a glorious hymn to the very real, living, breathing, male body and is presented here in a new digital version remastered from the original camera negative by the BFI National Archive. Special Features: Jazz calendar (1968, 36 mins): footage of the Royal Ballet in rehearsal with scenery and costumes by Derek Jarman Sebastiane: A Work in Progress (c1976, 62 mins): an incomplete, black and white and un-subtitled work-in-progress cut featuring alternative music The Making of Sebastiane (1975, 25 mins): Super 8 making-of document shot by the film's sound assistant Hugh Smith and Jarman himself John Scarlett-Davis Remembers Sebastiane (2018, 7 mins): artist filmmaker John Scarlett-Davis talks about his experiences on the set of Sebastiane Fully illustrated booklet with writing by William Fowler and full film credits

• The Smiths - The Complete Picture | DVD | (10/04/2000) from £8.79   |  Saving you £4.20 (47.78%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This DVD features all their great videos and also includes a short film by acclaimed director Derek Jarman: 'The Queen Is Dead'. Tracks include: 'This Charming Man' / 'What Difference Does It Make?' / 'Panic' / 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now' / 'Ask' / 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side' / 'How Soon Is Now?' / 'Shoplifters Of The World Unite' / 'Girlfriend In A Coma' / 'Sheila Take A Bow' / 'Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before'

• Jubilee | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Derek Jarman's Jubilee combines a safety-pin and barbed-wire vision of 1977 London in ruins (all burning prams and castrated policemen), a meditation on English mysticism guided by a time-travelling Queen Elizabeth I (the immensely regal Jenny Runacre) and a wild 'n' crazy account of the rampages of a gang of personality punk psychos, to become the closest a British film could come to the John Waters of Pink Flamingos. But there are surprisingly lyrical stretches (the only songs sung all the way through are "Jerusalem" and "My Love is Like a Red Red Rose") and, though future pop stars Toyah Wilcox and Adam Ant are embarrassingly amateurish as rebel street angels, some of the one-note maniacal performances--especially Lex Luther look-alike Orlando as mad media tycoon Borgia Ginz--are relishable. Among the people you've forgotten are in it are Ian Charleson of Chariots of Fire, celebrity shop assistant Jordan (as narrator Amyl Nitrate), Richard O'Brien and Little Nell of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Lindsay Kemp Dance Troupe and Adolf Hitler of World War II. Arguably the only Derek Jarman movie you might consider watching for pleasure, this is still not exactly the 1970s nostalgia fodder you might expect: even as the haircuts and music have receded into cultural history, the movie's acid-look vision of the worst of England remains horribly sound. The soundtrack features Adam and the Ants ("Deutscher Girls"), Wayne County and the Electric Chairs ("Paranoia Paradise"), Chelsea ("Right to Work"), Suzi Pinns (a thrash punk "Rule Britannia" best appreciated by those with the aural range of a fox terrier), Siouxie and the Banshees ("Love in a Void"), Amilcar ("Wargasm in Pornotopia"), the Slits and Brian Eno ("Slow Water", "Dover Beach"). In the 21st Century, the creative team are either dead or doing pantomime--which is so appropriate that irony doesn't even come into it. --Kim Newman

• The Garden (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £7.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk has English audio.

• Sebastiane | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first and only film shot entirely in subtitled Latin, Sebastiane is Derek Jarman's first work as a director (though he shared the job with the less well-known Paul Humfress) and is a strange combination of gay nudie movie, pocket-sized Ancient Roman epic and meditation upon the image of Saint Sebastian. It opens with the Lindsay Kemp dance troupe romping around with huge fake phalluses to represent the Ken Russell-style decadence of the court of the Emperor Diocletian in AD 303, then decamps to Tuscany as Diocletian's favourite guard Sebastian (Leonardo Treviglio) is demoted to ordinary soldier and dispatched to a backwater barracks because the Emperor (Robert Medley) suspects him of being a covert Christian. The bulk of the film consists of athletic youths in minimal thongs romping around the countryside, soaking themselves down between bouts of manly horseplay or sylvan frolic. It all comes to a bad end as the lecherous but guilt-ridden commanding officer Severus (Barney James) fails to cop off with Sebastian and instead visits floggings and tortures upon his naked torso, finally ordering his men to riddle the future saint with arrows, thus securing him a place in cultural history. The public schoolboy cleverness of scripting dialogue in Latin--a popular soldier's insult is represented by the Greek "Oedipus"--works surprisingly well, with the cast reeling off profane Roman dialogue as if it were passionate Italian declarations rather than marbled classical sentences. The film suffers from the not-uncommon failing that the best-looking actor is given the largest role but delivers the weakest performance: Treviglio's Sebastian is a handsome cipher, far less interesting than the rest of the troubled, bullying, awkward or horny soldiers in the platoon. Peter Hinwood, famous for the title role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, can be glimpsed in the palace orgy. The countryside looks as good as the cast, and Brian Eno delivers an evocative, ambient-style score. --Kim Newman

• The Tempest | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hailed as one of the most successful adaptations of Shakespeare Derek Jarman's 'The Tempest' is also unsurprisingly one of the most unconventional. Though keeping the essence of the text the films greatness lies in Jarman's skill at creating a visually stunning erotically charged world of haunting imagery. Flamboyant highly atmospheric and full of Jarman's punk era attitude the famous finale in which Elizabeth Welch sings `Stormy Weather' surrounded by sailors is one of th

• Caravaggio (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (17/06/2019) from £9.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hugely significant to Jarman, his biopic of the Italian Baroque painter with whom he strongly identified was developed over many years. Ultimately shot on 35mm film, it looks incredible: the tableaux and sets project rich, painterly depth, brightness and colour. Sean Bean and Tilda Swinton deliver fine performances as the model and partner caught up in a complex and fatally doomed love triangle with the famous artist. Caravaggio struggles to reconcile the demands of authority (in the form of his church patrons) with his own artistic and sexual needs a tension then very close to Jarman's heart. Available here in High Definition for the first time outside of 2018's Jarman Vol.1 (1972-1986), Caravaggio is arguably the director's most popular film. Special Features: Caravaggio in Docklands (1985, 15 mins): shot on VHS by director Ron Peck (Nighthawks), this footage was recorded at Limehouse Studios on the Isle of Dogs, East London where Derek was about to shoot Caravaggio Kind Blasphemy: Nigel Terry on Derek Jarman and Caravaggio (2007, 7 mins): the actor and star of Caravaggio shares his memories of meeting and working with Derek Jarman Tilda Swinton on Caravaggio and Derek Jarman (2007, 9 mins): interview with the Oscar-winning actress Italy of the Memory: Christopher Hobbs on Caravaggio (2007, 8 mins): archive interview with the film s production designer Dexter Fletcher on Caravaggio (2014, 10 mins): the actor and director recalls his first meeting with Derek Jarman Christopher Hobbs Remembers Caravaggio (2018, 6 mins): further reminiscences of the making of Caravaggio Derek Jarman interviewed by Derek Malcolm (1986, 58 mins, audio only) Caravaggio Score Recording Sessions (1986, 64 mins, audio only): extensive new selection of hauntingly beautiful audio outtakes Audio commentary with Cinematographer Gabriel Beristan Assorted Galleries: Derek Jarman's Notebook, Storyboards, Production Designs and original notes by Jarman Original theatrical trailer Fully illustrated booklet with writing on the film, and full film credits

• The Last Of England | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Derek Jarman's most personal and innovative films The Last of England is a devastating vision of 80's Britain. Images of war and urban decay are intercut with Jarman's own childhood home movies creating a shocking yet beautiful and poetic film with a much praised soundtrack featuring Diamanda Glass Mayo Thompson Andy Gill and Marianne Faithfull.

• Aria | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Conceived developed and produced by Don Boyd Aria is a completely unique film both structurally and also in the sheer scale of the production itself. Ten of the world's most creative and celebrated directors were each given the same brief; to choose a piece of opera music and then present a visual interpretation of that music. The result is by turns erotic violent funny and poignant. The stills photographers assigned to each were equally celebrated among them David Bailey Annie Leibovitz Lord Snowdon Terry O'Neill and John Swannell. The impressive cast list includes John Hurt Tilda Swinton Bridget Fonda and Elizabeth Hurley Teresa Russell. A remarkable collective achievement Aria is a cinematic experience like no other.

• Blue | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Derek Jarman's final film which takes place against a stark blue background and features an interwoven soundtrack of voices and music.

• Derek Jarman Volume 1: 1976 -1986 (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (02/04/2018) from £58.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Derek Jarman sadly passed away from HIV-related complications in February 1994, but his legacy lives on. In the twenty years since his death, his work has lost none of its relevance. Jarman's multi-faceted work is inspirational in its fearlessness, yet remains touchingly personal. The dynamism of these features evokes comparison with the bold romanticism of directors Ken Russell (an early champion) and Michael Powell, as well as artists Paul Nash and John Piper. But Jarman was also a subversive force in film. Through the provocativeness of Jubilee, The Tempest and The Angelic Conversation, he invoked Elizabethan occultist Dr John Dee and explored alchemical imagery, a subject in which he was well versed, while in Sebastiane and Caravaggio he revived key gay and homo-erotic figures from the past with edgy and unmistakable style. Derek Jarman's enduring legacy is celebrated in this lavish box set containing his first five features, newly scanned at 2K from original film elements, alongside an exciting array of new and archival extras. Extras: All films presented in High Definition for the first time. Fully illustrated 80-page book with new writing on the film, contemporary reviews and full film credits

• War Requiem: 20th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £33.00   |  Saving you £-13.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With no spoken dialogue but set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's 'War Requiem' which includes World War One Soldier Wilfred Owen's poems reflecting the horrors of the war War Requiem is the story of an English soldier and his nurse (who later became his wife) as they try to live their lives during the inescapable horrors and loss of World War One.

• Edward II | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the play by Christopher Marlowe Edward II continues to bestow honours on Gaveston a commoner. Queen Isabella upset and mortified conspires to overthrow the King. Murder and civil war ensue...

• The Angelic Conversation | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Intense dreamlike and poetic The Angelic Conversation is one of the most artistic of Derek Jarmans films. With his painters eye Jarman conjured in a beautiful palette of light colour and texture an evocative and radical visualisation of Shakespeares love poems. Judi Denchs emotive readings of 14 Shakespeare sonnets are coupled with ethereal sequences; figures on seashores by streams and in colourful gardens.

• The Garden | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Filmed in the stark environs of Derek Jarman's coastal home in the shadow of Dungeness power station 'The Garden' is a powerful and moving series of allegorical dreamscapes. The narrative unfolds to find Jarman asleep at his desk surrounded by Christian imagery. His dreams transpose New Testament events into a contemporary context examining repressive attitudes towards homosexuality the AIDS crisis and Jarman's own feeling towards the Church.