British filmmaker Derek Jarman was a rebel with a cause: illuminating the censored gay subtext of historical figures while embracing cinema’s wide visual vocabulary. hear dean otto’s interview on the ...

For this week’s edition of our queer film retrospective “A Gay Old Time,” we are getting down on our knees. And, in a surprising turn of events, it is actually not just for pleasure, but also for ...

St. Sebastian, as painted by Botticelli, Rubens, and Titian, just to name a few, is easily the most bonerific of the Christian martyrs. It is this inarguable fact that fuels Derek Jarman’s totally ...

Co-directed by a BBC TV filmmaker, Paul Humfress, Derek Jarman's gay movie was shot in England and Sardinia in about five weeks for under £15,000. The title - which is the Latin vocative, 'O Sebastian ...

Shot entirely in sub-titled Latin, which makes it a strange precedent for Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, Sebastiane is Derek Jarman’s first work as a director (though he shared the job with ...

300 A.D. : the Roman Sebastianus is exiled to a remote outpost populated exclusively by men. Weakened by their desires, these men turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. However, ...

Despite eloquent talking heads, chief among them a passionately articulate Tilda Swinton, this uninspired biodoc of iconoclastic English filmmaker Derek Jarman could almost appear on as mainstream a ...

Keith Haring in 1983 (left) and Derek Jarman in 1980. (Haring photo by STD/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Jarman photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)) Queeries is a column by CBC Arts ...

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 ...