I would love to know what you make of Sebastiane -- an American classicist studying at Oxford, Jack Welch, did the translation for Jarman, and my high school Latin isn't strong enough to know how well the actors handled it.
Totally. I think it's the next one on our queue, once rushthatspeaks is no longer in Italy and we're actually close enough to watch a film together rather than just talk wistfully about it. I've read about its making in Dancing Ledge.
The Angelic Conversation or Glitterbug would be a good one to put on after.
The Angelic Conversation is the one I turned out to have owned on Italian-subtitled DVD since 2009, under the impression it was just the soundtrack by Coil. We have no idea how that happened.
(Glitterbug, which was assembled posthumously from Jarman's super-8 shorts, has a phenomenal soundtrack by Brian Eno as well.)
I will definitely want to see that. I love the short "Art of Mirrors."
I'll soon be posting a video essay about Caravaggio that I just finished, so hopefully will help you value it a bit more.
It was my first Jarman: I loved it when I saw it. I never wrote it up properly, but Nigel Terry. Sean Bean. Sean Bean making love to Tilda Swinton with gold coins. Tilda Swinton, my God. It just happened that I love Benjamin Britten, so War Requiem, and, who knew, apparently I love Wittgenstein. I look forward to your essay!
Just need to solve some annoying problems of compressing the video file without causing havoc to the imagery.
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Totally. I think it's the next one on our queue, once
The Angelic Conversation or Glitterbug would be a good one to put on after.
The Angelic Conversation is the one I turned out to have owned on Italian-subtitled DVD since 2009, under the impression it was just the soundtrack by Coil. We have no idea how that happened.
(Glitterbug, which was assembled posthumously from Jarman's super-8 shorts, has a phenomenal soundtrack by Brian Eno as well.)
I will definitely want to see that. I love the short "Art of Mirrors."
I'll soon be posting a video essay about Caravaggio that I just finished, so hopefully will help you value it a bit more.
It was my first Jarman: I loved it when I saw it. I never wrote it up properly, but Nigel Terry. Sean Bean. Sean Bean making love to Tilda Swinton with gold coins. Tilda Swinton, my God. It just happened that I love Benjamin Britten, so War Requiem, and, who knew, apparently I love Wittgenstein. I look forward to your essay!
Just need to solve some annoying problems of compressing the video file without causing havoc to the imagery.
(Got nothing. I write all mine.)