- Blue (1993 film)
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This article is about the Derek Jarman film. For the 1993 Krzysztof Kieślowski film, see Three Colors: Blue.
Blue 
Blue fieldDirected by Derek Jarman Produced by James Mackay
Takashi AsaiWritten by Derek Jarman Narrated by Derek Jarman
Tilda Swinton
Nigel Terry
John QuentinMusic by Simon Fisher Turner
John Balance
Momus
Peter Christopherson
Karol Szymanowski
Erik SatieStudio Channel Four Films
BBC Radio 3
Arts Council of Great BritainDistributed by Basilisk Communications Ltd Release date(s) Venice Biennale, June 1993, Edinburgh International Film Festival, August 1993, 3 October 1993
(New York Film Festival)Running time 79 min. Country United Kingdom Language English Blue is the twelfth and final feature film by director Derek Jarman, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. Such complications had already rendered him partially blind at the time of the film's release.
The film was his last testament as a film-maker, and consists of a single shot of saturated blue colour filling the screen, as background to a soundtrack where Jarman's and some of his favourite actors' narration describes his life and vision.
On its premiere, Channel 4 and BBC Radio 3 collaborated on a simultaneous broadcast so viewers could enjoy a stereo soundtrack. Radio 3 subsequently broadcast the soundtrack separately as a radio play and it was later released as a CD.
The film ends with the words:
In time,
No one will remember our work
Our life will pass like the traces of a cloud
And be scattered like
Mist that is chased by the
Rays of the sun
For our time is the passing of a shadow
And our lives will run like
Sparks through the stubble. I place a delphinium, Blue, upon your graveThe film has been released on DVD in Germany and in Italy. On 23 July 2007 British distributor Artificial Eye released DVD tying Blue together with Glitterbug, a collage of Jarman's Super 8 footage.
Notes
See also
- Themes For Derek Jarman's Blue
External links
- A review of Blue
- Text of Jarman's soundtrack for the film Blue
- Blue DVD page
- Blue at the Internet Movie Database
- Blue at AllRovi
Films directed by Derek Jarman Feature Films Sebastiane (1976) • Jubilee (1977) • The Tempest (1979) • The Angelic Conversation (1985) • Caravaggio (1986) • Aria (segment "Depuis le Jour") (1987) • The Last of England (1988) • War Requiem (1989) • The Garden (1990) • Edward II (1991) • Wittgenstein (1993) • Blue (1993)Short film collages In the Shadow of the Sun (1981) • Glitterbug (1994)Categories:- English-language films
- 1993 films
- Avant-garde and experimental films
- Films directed by Derek Jarman
- British LGBT-related films
- 1990s drama film stubs
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