{"id":29082,"date":"2018-06-10T15:19:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T14:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=29082"},"modified":"2018-06-10T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T14:20:00","slug":"jubilee-at-the-electric-cinema-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/jubilee-at-the-electric-cinema-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Jubilee at The Electric Cinema Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jubilee<\/em>, celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year, is showing at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theelectric.co.uk\/programme.php?film=2133\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Electric Cinema<\/strong><\/a> in Birmingham on Saturday 28th July at 5.30pm. Click below for further info.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theelectric.co.uk\/programme.php?film=2133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.theelectric.co.uk\/programme.php?film=2133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5038\" alt=\"jubileed12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/jubileed12a.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/jubileed12a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/jubileed12a-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Derek Jarman\u2019s apocalyptic fantasia Jubilee couldn\u2019t have been made in any other decade than the 1970s, shot through with punk aesthetics and featuring turns from Adam Ant, Siousxie &amp; The Banshees and Toyah Willcox.<\/p>\n<p>Filmed during the year of Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s silver jubilee, Jarman\u2019s film sees Elizabeth I and her alchemist Dr John Dee conjure up Shakespeare\u2019s sprite Ariel, who sends them travelling through time to a brutal dystopian version of 1970s London where violent girl gangs roam the capital and Westminster cathedral has been turned into a gay disco club.<\/p>\n<p>Sticking two bloodied fingers up to the establishment, Jubilee is a gloriously messy affair that\u2019s as petty and nihilistic as the punk movement it aimed to simultaneously represent and satirise on screen, whilst Rocky Horror fans will get a thrill from seeing Nell Campbell and Richard O\u2019Brien in Jarman&#8217;s eccentric cast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jubilee, celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year, is showing at The Electric Cinema in Birmingham on Saturday 28th July at 5.30pm. Click below for further info. Derek Jarman\u2019s apocalyptic fantasia Jubilee couldn\u2019t have been made in any other decade than the 1970s, shot through with punk aesthetics and featuring turns from Adam Ant, Siousxie &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,15],"tags":[171,1899,1113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29082"}],"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=29082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29083,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29082\/revisions\/29083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}