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5) War requiem
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The horrors of war and the pacifist sentiments expressed in Benjamin Britten's War requiem and the poems of Wilfred Owen are evoked in scenes and vignettes illustrating death and suffering in World War I.
6) Jubilee
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When Queen Elizabeth I aasks her court alchemist to show her England in the future, she's transported 400 years to a post-apocalyptic wasteland of roving girl gangs, an all-powerful media mogul, fascistic police, scattered filth, and twisted sex.
7) Aria
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Ten of the world's best-known film makers were given a free hand to make real any vision.
8) Edward II
Series
Language
English
Description
"Director Derek Jarman's controversial adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play portrays the weak-willed monarch as neglecting his kingdom for his commoner male lover." --
9) Caravaggio
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Jarman's gorgeously sensual re-imagining of the volatile life of the 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his rampant flirtations with the underworld.
