{"id":28473,"date":"2018-03-30T12:54:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T11:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=28473"},"modified":"2018-03-30T12:54:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T11:54:33","slug":"the-arts-desk-derek-jarman-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-arts-desk-derek-jarman-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arts Desk: Derek Jarman Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theartsdesk.com\/film\/blu-ray-derek-jarman-collection-vol-one-1972-1986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/theartsdesk.com\/film\/blu-ray-derek-jarman-collection-vol-one-1972-1986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28474 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"theartsdesk18a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/theartsdesk18a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><strong>Blu-ray: Derek Jarman Collection, Vol One 1972-1986<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Voyage through an alchemical universe: the magical realm of a flawed English genius<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This BFI boxset of Derek Jarman films from the first phase of his career, brilliantly curated by William Fowler, is an exemplary package: a treasure trove of extras accompanies his first six features, here presented in re-mastered form, and a thorough, well-illustrated and thought-provoking 80-page booklet with extensive material about the films and a wealth of essays.<\/p>\n<p>The collection makes it possible to follow the evolution of Jarman as a film-maker, always riding the wave of creative and mould-breaking adventure, from the mysteries of In the Shadow of the Sun (1981), a film that built on much of Jarman&#8217;s super-8mm footage from the 1970s, the controversial Sebastiane (1976), through to the explosive punk-inspired politics of Jubilee (1978), followed by The Tempest (1979), surely one of the best adaptations of Shakespeare on film, the avant-garde rigour and homo-erotic delirium of The Angelic Conversation (1985), and the assured and more straightforward account of the rebellious life of the painter Caravaggio.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/theartsdesk.com\/film\/blu-ray-derek-jarman-collection-vol-one-1972-1986\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Arts Desk<\/strong><\/a>. Read further info on this release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/derek-jarman-volume-one-1972-1986-5-disc-blu-ray\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blu-ray: Derek Jarman Collection, Vol One 1972-1986 Voyage through an alchemical universe: the magical realm of a flawed English genius This BFI boxset of Derek Jarman films from the first phase of his career, brilliantly curated by William Fowler, is an exemplary package: a treasure trove of extras accompanies his first six features, here presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,10,27,149,110],"tags":[171,1817,1386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28475,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions\/28475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}