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This is not a punk film; it is a Derek Jarman film...
Punk quality
Sex, Drugs and Punk Rock!
If punk rockers ruled the world...
The worst movie i have ever seen

Jubilee - Criterion Collection
Starring: Jenny Runacre , Nell Campbell , Toyah Willcox , Jordan (III) , and Hermine Demoriane
Director: Derek Jarman
Manufacturer: Criterion
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ASIN: B00008RH14
Release Date: 2003-05-27

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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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When Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the future, she's transported 400 years to a post-apocalyptic wasteland of roving girl gangs, an all-powerful media mogul, fascistic police, scattered filth, and twisted sex. With Jubilee, legendary British filmmaker Derek Jarman channeled political dissent and artistic daring into a revolutionary blend of history and fantasy, musical and cinematic experimentation, satire and anger, fashion and philosophy. With its uninhibited punk petulance and sloganeering, Jubilee, brings together many cultural and musical icons of the time, including Jordan, Toyah Willcox, Little Nell, Wayne County, Adam Ant, and Brian Eno (with his first original film score), to create a genuinely unique, unforgettable vision. Ahead of its time and often frighteningly accurate in its predictions, it is a fascinating historical document and a gorgeous work of film art.

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This is not a punk film; it is a Derek Jarman film..........2007-03-14

This is a wonderful film, and it's also greatly misunderstood. It came out in 1978 at the height of the punk movement in England, and it was labeled as a "punk" film. It is not a punk film; it is a Derek Jarman film. Since it is a Derek Jarman film, it's filled with poetry, sadness, brilliant imagery, and a deep tenderness in many of its scenes. It's also filled with homoerotic elements and some deeply poetic dialogue. The only thing the film doesn't have is punk. If it were a document of the punk movement, it would only be a historical artifact, like a news piece. It would be terribly dated now. But this film doesn't date at all. There's hardly any mention of punk in the film, and there's hardly any punk rock music in the film. In the documentary included in the DVD, the people who worked with Jarman on the film inform us that the punk movement/rockers hated the film (probably because most of them weren't in it, and Jarman didn't embrace the punk movement). Many of these people walked out on the film, and someone (I can't remember who) even wrote an "open letter" to Derek Jarman. Jarman ended up having a T-shirt printed up of it. There's a picture of him in the documentary wearing it. I must admit I like that (Jarman wearing the T-shirt, not the actual letter). There are a number of interesting performances, including Adam Ant (in his first film). Ian Charleson (Angel) is good as well in his first film. He was in Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, and Opera, and, like Jarman, died of AIDS in 1987. Richard O'Brien (John Dee) is very good here. He played Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Jenny Runacre, who plays Elizabeth I and Bod here, also played Jack Nicholson's wife in Antonioni's The Passenger. There's a real curious mix of professionals and non-professional here, and it works very well. I found this film remarkable, and I am very glad that Criterion has it in a special edition.

Punk quality.......2005-09-19

I saw this film (what I could stand) because I was curious about Toyah Willcox as an actor. I had to go to the end credits to find out which character she was. I was expecting the beautiful woman from the cover of her "Minx" album. Instead, from 1977 I got a sort of chubby teenager playing "Mad", a punk girl with a carot crewcut. Not interesting.

It is a very ambitious movie, and perhaps it should earn points for that. But it is just so poorly conceived. Poorly film, poor sound, attrocious acting, bad timing.

You may like it if you like punk sensibility and garage band production values.

Sex, Drugs and Punk Rock!.......2004-12-26

Criterion Spine Number: 191

Derek Jarman's twisted psuedo-Rocky Horror is just the perfect treat for any fan of really twisted films.

Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre who also plays the character of Bod) wants to see into the future. With the aid of her court and the angel Ariel, she is transported 4 centuries into the future to get a gander of current life. What she sees is nothing less than shocking. Total anarchy: Buckingham Palace is a recording studio owned by insane media master Borgia Ginz (Orlando), the Church is a sex hall, police only help themselves and what you can grab, is yours.

The main focous of the movie, however is a group of five young women: the sexy and always turned on Crabs (Little Nell), the "schoolteacher" with a nack for singing "Rule Brittania" in punk fashon named Amyl Nitrate (Jordan), the pyromaniac fire bug Mad (Toyah Willcox), the sweet and romantic Chaos (Hermine Demoriane) and finally the Queen in her own little world: Bod (Jenny's second role in the film).

There is also some early music by: Adam Ant, Brian Eno, Wayne County and many others. The music fits the film perfectly and is quite fun all around.

Now, onto the DVD:

The image quality is great. Probably not the best dvd picture I've ever seen but none the less, it's wonderful. It's presented in it's original aspect ratio of 1.66 and is enhanced for widescreen TVs.

The films original audio track is quite good as well. It's a Dolby Digital Mono track and surprisingly, there's no problems with it (I sometimes have problems with 1.0 tracks but not this time)

The special features are a bushell of fun: First there is the documentary which runs nearly 40 minutes and has a lot of information of the director and film. Toyah Willcox even shows up for an interview along with Jenny Runacre). We are also offered script pages with a series of notes. Continuity stills, sketches, the original (and almost as twisted as the movie) theatrical trailer, production pictures and finally, Jordan's complete dance (longer take than what is in the movie) which is quite interesting.

Jubilee is not a film for everyone or casual viewers of odd movies. Unless you really like twisted movies, then just rent it. But if you are ready for some odd, odd, odd fun...enjoy Jubilee.

If punk rockers ruled the world..........2004-11-26

This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.

"Jubilee" released in 1977 during Queen Elizabeth II's silver Jubilee year, certainly would not be accepted by her.

In this film Queen Elizabeth the first wants to see England in the future. She is sent 400 years ahead to see England in a manner somewhat reminiscent of Clockwork Orange. Punk rockers dominate the mass media, sexually deviant behavior (erotic asphyxiation for example) is considered acceptable, and a variety of other crazy things.

The film never got an MPAA rating but deserves an NC-17 in my opinion. It got an 18 rating in England which is pretty much the same.

The film is sure to offend many people and I strongly recommend that people learn more about it before seeing it themselves.

The Criterion DVD has a documentary on director Derek Jarman, a theatrical trailer, a super-8 film used in the movie as stock fooatge, and a fascimile of Jarman's scrapbook.

It is mainly a film for those interested in the punk era.

The worst movie i have ever seen.......2004-10-30

If i could give this movie zero stars, i would. The story (or lack thereof) sounded interesting in principle, but this movie has absolutely nothing of intrest to say to the viewer and fails in every respect. Forget the reviewers who tell you to purchase this if at least for the punk legends who act in it, who cares if Adam Ant is in it when youre just going to be bored to tears the whole way through? The film is amateurish beyond belief and i can honsetly say the acting is the worst ive seen in any film, ever.

This is the first time Criterion has let me down, and what a gargantuan let down this movie was. I wonder what on earth they were thinking when they decided to unleash this stinker of a movie on the public. At the risk of sounding like a fascist, I dare say it would have been a much better move to bury every print of this movie in the same landfill they used for the E.T. Atari game back in the 80s than release it on DVD. Let's play pretend for a second and say the actors in this film could actually act - even then every character is so annoying and not one bit likable that the movie would STILL stink. One good thing can be said about it though - The bad acting mixed with the horrible dialogue mixed with the incredibly stupid looking "angel" that shows Queen Elizabeth the future will bring a generous laugh to anyone, that is untill you realize you paid for this $hit. Then you'll probably cry.

Dont waste your money on this, even if youre a fan of punk rock and/or Adam Ant as i am. This is genuinely garbage. My copy of Jubilee is going straight to an auction site.

bye.

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Not so Dino-Riffic omission

Barney - The Dino-Riffic Collection!
Starring: Barney
Manufacturer: Lyons / Hit Ent.
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Episode Description: Disc 1: Barney - Let's go to the Farm Disc 2: Barney - Just Imagine Disc 3: Barney - Musical Scrapbook

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Not so Dino-Riffic omission.......2007-03-27

My daughter is a Barney freak. We're always on the lookout for Barney DVD's she doesn't have. That's why we bought The Dino-Riffic collection. Unfortunately, there was no information on the website listing to tell me that this collection was 3 common DVD's she already had. She was very dissappointed.

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