Blue (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 27, 2019
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Kino Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Derek Jarman | |
Directed by | Derek Jarman | |
Screenwriting by | Derek Jarman | |
Composition by | Simon Fisher Turner | |
Voice: | John Quentin, Nigel Terry & Tilda Swinton |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
[An] effective, if overlong basketball drama.
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Combustible Celluloid
Watching various hoop stars and legends trying to act is cringeworthy, O'Neal particularly bad, but Friedkin's movie, written by sports film specialist Shelton has a lot of passion.
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Film4
Simon Fisher Turner deserves particular praise for the score, which runs the gamut from minimalist tintinnabulation to a wickedly funny a cappella number.
Sight and Sound
...It's a worthy addition to the AIDS film canon....Jarman has remained true to himself...
Film Comment
Rating: 2/4 --
It is a very homogenized movie that never offends, yet never seems to be for real either.
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Internet Reviews
Rating: 3.5/5 --
If Mr. Friedkin didn't have to work so strenuously framing two-shots of Mr. Nolte with this seven-foot athlete, it might be hard to remember that Mr. O'Neal has a day job.
New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Worth seeing for Nolte's force-of-nature performance and the novelty of Shaq "emoting."
eFilmCritic.com
Product Description:
Derek Jarman's final film is a musically embroiled reflection on his life and his rapidly deteriorating physical condition. While battling AIDS and his corresponding loss of sight, Jarman daringly created a film like no other. Set against a pulsing and unwavering blue screen, BLUE is alternately a metaphor for physical and spiritual blindness and an homage to French painter Yves Klein. Jarman's memories, narrative sketches, and philosophies are read by himself and various artists in voice-overs set to a stirring score by Simon Fisher Turner. Void of visual imagery, Jarman plays with an over-developed sense of sound, highlighting the poetic lull of the spoken narrative--chimes and church bells ring, the washer and dryer at his home powerfully thump like monsters, painfully reminding the viewer that the narrator no longer perceives the visual world. Jarman's deeply visual sense of memory, peppered by darkly comic cynicism and dreamy romanticism, is left to linger over the rich blue screen. This final film serves as a pièce de résistance for the controversial maverick filmmaker whose work consistently confronted issues affecting the gay community with a uniquely stylish beauty and unwavering bravado.
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- UPC: 738329239275
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