Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305337096 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6305337098 Label: Kino International Manufacturer: Kino International Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kino International Release Date: February 22, 2000 Running Time: 95 minutes Sales Rank: 43096 Studio: Kino International Theatrical Release Date: 1979
Rating: - Jarman's Tempest
I will be teaching this play for a community college crowd next semester. I think it will work for that - more straightforward and less nudity than "Prospero's Books."
Rating: - The most boring movie that is made from a Shakespearean play.
This is just boring. It lacks excitement and is just a poor adaptation of the play. I read the play before watching this movie and some of the funniest parts are not realized becuase the actors and the sound and the location do not make it interesting. I would not suggest anyone watch this ever. This is as bad as Caligula.
Rating: - Jarman's Tempest....
This is one of the most unique adaptations of Shakespeare, and one of Derek Jarman's best films. It's a very stripped down version of Shakespeare's last play. If you're looking for a realistic, stridently faithful adaptation, look elsewhere. It's not here. Jarman is one of the best British filmmakers ever (and one of the most unknown, which is a bloody shame), and his literary adaptations are entirely his own. The Tempest, Caravaggio, and Edward II take place in the past, but there are always modern touches which alienate some of the audience, but dazzle others. This is a great example of Jarman's filmmaking.
The film is very spooky, cerebral, austere (probably because of budget limitations), yet it's intensely watchable. It has great performances by all (including many Jarman regulars), beautiful, startling cinemtography, and wonderful atmosphere. It was shot almost exclusively in an abandoned ... Read More
Rating: - A Moody Gothic and Lusty Tempest
This is a very strong re-imagining of Shakespeare's Tempest. Like Ken Russell (with whom Jarman served as an apprentice on a number of films), Jarman has a natural interest in and affinity for English history & literature and an equal interest in and affinity for camp which is skeptical of and often parodies traditions that it nonethless adheres to and upholds. As much of an iconoclast as Ken Russell and Derek Jarman seem to be they never stray far from the acknowledged masterpieces of literature and the way these masterpieces orient us toward the world; what they add, however, is an element of camp (or play, or polymorphous perversion, or myriad-mindedness) which draws attention to the restrictions that class and gender and race place on individuals or social actors "playing" at any given time in history. But this is, of course, what the greatest literature has always done--shown the arbitrary bounds and laws by ... Read More
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