Jubilee - Criterion Collection |  | Director: Derek Jarman
Actors: Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox, Jordan (III), Hermine Demoriane
Studio: Criterion
Category: DVD
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Rating:  21 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PMIDJUB020D
ISBN: 0780026462
UPC: 037429176023
EAN: 9780780026469
Theatrical Release Date: September 1979
Release Date: May 27, 2003
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Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 05/27/2003 Run time: 105 minutes
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Avant-garde spirit and punk-rock attitude combine with iconoclastic results in Derek Jarman's defiantly uncommercial Jubilee. Filmed in 1977--the silver jubilee year of England's Queen Elizabeth II--this fascinating hodgepodge of political dissent and audiovisual experimentation now stands as a vibrant document of its time, both immediate and enduring in its bold rejection of all things conventional. (Compared to this, the quasi-punk Repo Man and angst-ridden Sid & Nancy seem positively tame.) Jarman's film deserved its mixed reviews; like the films of Andy Warhol, it's a slapdash affair, cobbled together by Jarman and his fringe-dwelling friends, ostensibly designed as a kaleidoscopic glimpse of London's future, infused with apocalyptic nihilism and populated by proto-punks (including Adam Ant and Rocky Horror's Little Nell) in an anarchic orgy of gay and straight sex, music, violence, and (in retrospect) astonishingly accurate pop-cultural prophesy. It's the pioneering, angry/funny work of a genuine artist, as essential to punk film as the Sex Pistols were to music in the dreadful days of disco. --Jeff Shannon
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 Good only for the music and scenes of London, but nothing else October 28, 2009
Paul Metzger (Owasso, OK USA)
The dialogue is over-the-top pretentious and the acting is not even good enough to be considered second-rate, but the music and setting make this a film worth watching. I just watch it piecemeal now(ie-the musical performances and some panorama shots that are interesting), as I cannot stomach the silly, preachy almost 'Clockwork Orange-y' type dialogue that is supposed to be foreboding and cryptic, it would seem. Still, aside from that, looking at how similar the punk styles still are to this day is nearly as interesting as anything else.
 Late 70s Art Film October 9, 2009
Valerie Paty (Atlanta, GA, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had been warned how really rotten this film was by other Adam Ant fans; however, I tried to watch this film fairly and judge it for myself and found out that I loved it! It is a true late 1970s "art" film in my opinion. Poorly written, bad camera work, sets & costumes from the company's own stuff. The film's "storyline" is loose and hardly apparent, but that is part of the enjoyment I got. Basically, I see this as a bunch of London-based friends and scene makers getting together to play at making a, what would have been university-level (at the time,) class project. Don't expect something even as polished as The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This was a "first" for many (most?) of those involved and it shows - and that is its charm.
 Two for the price of one April 3, 2009
Kieran F. Johnston (Shah Alam, Selangor Malaysia)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a movie of great economy; in most parodies, you need a dyad: a parodeer, and a parodee; this movie, however, is such a massive parody of itself that you can't imagine it referring to anything external to itself. It is a self-contained circle of risibility, a window painted black, an arrow that is its own target.
One thing could have salvaged this film: Austin Powers, his time machine stalled on the way to the sixties, pops up with his cross-eyed, beaver-toothed mug, and ejaculates: O Beehive!
punk Ficton January 8, 2009
P. R. Davy (New Zealand)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not quit what I was expecting but interesting all the same. acting was a little amateur and story jumped around a bit. Didn't get the point of the movie. Would suit cult punk fans
"This is the generation that grew up and forgot to lead their lives" August 16, 2008
Ruadhan J McElroy (Ann Arbor, MI)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Derek Jarman didn't set out to make a "punk film", he set out to make "a film about punk", and many people don't like his interpretations. As a disaffected ex-punk, I found his interpretations poignant and honest, to the point where I could see how it would enrage people. People, especially posh kids playing at being lower-class for a time, don't generally like brutal honesty.
One of Jarman's working titles for this film was _High Fashion: An Anarchic Comedy about Sex & Violence_, and while the subject matter and plot are disturbingly nihilistic and there's this intense overtone of depressiveness amongst the primary characters, the comical elements are rather apparent, though probably too dry or deadpan for some people on either side of the pond. Jarman also uses humour to make some clear points about youth's relationship with history and tradition, nationalism, homophobia, the modern state of the monarchy, and other socially relevant concepts that are still important today, no matter how much some people insist otherwise.
The Criterion DVD also contains many special features, including a cinematic trailer and scans and transcriptions from Derek Jarman's _Jubilee_ scrapbook, a documentary with interviews of people who were in the cast and crew, and loads and loads of promotional stills. The highlight of the "scrapbook" portion of the features, in my opinion, is the photo of Jarman wearing Vivienne Westwood's infamous, incredibly incoherent, and nauseatingly homophobic "Open Lettre (T-Shirt) to Derek Jarman", followed by a transcription of the text of the t-shirt -- this will single-handedly destroy any misconceptions one may have of the public face of "punk" ever being progressive or at least open-minded.
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