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The Angelic Conversation

LGBTQ

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Caravaggio

Historic Drama

Derek Jarman's most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. CARAVAGGIO incorporates the painter's precise aesthetic into the movie's own vis…

Dance of Hope

Documentary

Academy Award winning filmmaker Deborah Shaffer directs this documentary of the aftermath of the political repression of General Augusto Pinochet. The wives, mothers and sisters of the disappeared courageously struggle for the truth and justice in Chile.

Fire From the Mountain

Documentary

Nicaraguan author Omar Cabezas’ personal memoir of revolution and reconstruction. 

From the Ashes - 10 Artists

Documentary

Artists in downtown Manhattan pick up the shattered pieces of their lives and reconsider their work after September 11.

From the Ashes: Epilogue

Documentary · Artists

One year later in the aftermath of September 11, downtown Manhattan artists are in their studios.

Glitterbox: Derek Jarman x 4

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Glitterbug

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The Last of England

Drama · World Cinema · Avant Garde

An apocalyptic roar of a movie, this is Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. It is both deeply personal and grimly historical, and is undoubtedly one of the most important British films of all time.

Sebastiane

Drama · World Cinema · Religion

Derek Jarman's feature film debut is a historical drama which lays bare the latent homoeroticism that has always lurked beneath the glossy surface of Hollywood biblical epics, audaciously spoken in Latin and supported by one of Brian Eno's best music scores.

The Tempest (Jarman)

LGBTQ · World Cinema · Cult

Jarman presents Shakespeare's intricate comedy of magic and revenge in a form that is at once faithful to the spirit of the play and a dazzling spectacle mixing Hollywood high camp and gothic horror. His film recalls the innocent homoeroticism of Pasolini's versions of the classics while its lush se…

To Be Heard

Documentary

Three Bronx teens search for their voices and an answer to the question: Can language change lives? Karina, Pearl, and Anthony are precariously balanced on the edge. Inspired by three teachers in a radical poetry workshop, can they write their own life stories, imagining a future where fathers aren'…

War Requiem

World Cinema · LGBTQ · Music & Dance

British cinema's enfant terrible teams with his muse Tilda Swinton and Laurence Olivier, for a spectacular and moving interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's 1961 orchestral masterpiece.

The Wobblies

National Film Registry · Documentary · American Independent

“Solidarity! All for One and One for All!” Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird’s impassioned documentary is a history of the radical labor union the Industrial Workers of the World, whose members are better known as Wobblies, through a combination of rare archival footage and ill…