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The artists personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose A dark meditation on London under Thatcher

Queen Elisabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk

Reassigned to a lowly outpost, a Roman guards Christian beliefs clash with his gay commanders desire for closeness Being tortured becomes pleasurable

A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Brittens War Requiem which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors of war There is no linear story or dialo

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld

Banished to a forsaken island, the Right Duke of Milan and Sorcerer Prospero gets the chance to take his revenge on the King of Naples with the assistance of his airy spirit servant, Ariel

Brief portrait of a British wing of an order of gay male nuns

A nearly wordless visual narrative inter cuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese born, Cambridge educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 1951, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language A series of sk

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarmans experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an expl

Delphinium is a stylized and lyrical portrait of artist Derek Jarmans childhood awakening in 1950s England Acquired for preservation by the British Film Institutes National Archive, Matthew Mishorys film includes an original scor

Pier Paolo Pasolini takes up with a young man and journeys to Ostia, and his death