Books by Derek Jarman and Complete Book Reviews
Tanith Lee, Author, Derek Jarman, Author Overlook Press $13.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-87951-697-0
This fourth and final installment of filmmaker Jarman's journals is as forthright as the earlier ones (At Your Own Risk, Dancing Ledge and Modern Nature). Although at times the nitty-gritty details of filmmaking overwhelm (Jarman began work on The...
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Derek Jarman, Author Overlook Press $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-87951-574-4
England's brashest independent filmmaker (Edward II, Wittgenstein), Jarman, who died of AIDS last February, draws on personal anecdote, literature and the work of Wittgenstein, Leonardo, Pliny and Kandinsky in this sketchy and highly idiosyncratic...
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Derek Jarman, Author Overlook Press $14.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-87951-560-7
``I step into a blue funk,'' British author and filmmaker Jarman writes early on in this screenplay of of his final--and award-winning--film, which deals with his gradual loss of sight due to complications from AIDS. As a movie, Blue was powerful,...
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Derek Jarman, Author Overlook Press $23.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-87951-520-1
Fans of British filmmaker Jarman's Caravaggio and Wittgenstein , as well as students of gay life, may enjoy these journal excerpts; others will find them too obscure. The third of Jarman's memoirs (following At Your Own Risk and Dancing Ledge )...
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Derek Jarman, Author, Shaun Allen, Editor Overlook Press $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87951-493-8
Originally published a decade ago in England under the title Queerlife, this brutally candid memoir by British artist and filmmaker Jarman offers a glimpse into the making of such controversial films as Sebastiane , The Tempest and Caravaggio....
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Derek Jarman, Author, Howard Sooley, Photographer Overlook Press $35 (144p) ISBN 978-0-87951-641-3
It was an unprepossessing site--a bleak, desolate expanse of shingle facing a nuclear power plant in Dungeness, Kent. Battered by wind, the area had the strongest sunlight, lowest rainfall and longest growing season in Britain. On learning that he...
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