I was once lucky enough to share a lunchtime table with Derek at a cheap Italian restaurant - Il Pollo - on Old Compton Street, Soho, in 1982. My girlfriend, a St Martins student, had done some work with him on Jubilee, and introduced us. We hit it off and I used to see him fairly regularly in that same restaurant (is it still going?). Even had afternoon tea in his tiny flat on Charing Cross Road with the weird scrying globe. Lovely funny gentle man who very kindly forgave me for my heterosexuality. I remember a wonderful drunken conversation whose theme was "where are the great literary lesbians of today? Where is Vita Sackville-West? Where is our Una, Lady Trowbridge?" I miss him. Great talent - and great interview, thanks Jeremy.
Pollos’ was a fantastic place, so many good times when I was an impoverished art student. Lots of great conversations with new friends over pasta and red wine... But all gone now unfortunately, cherish those memories my friend...
Jarman was one of my great heroes. He was unique, an individual, and everything he did-paintings, films, collages, gardening, writing, expressed that individuality.
i wish derek jarman was alive and in charge of the world. i remember when 'jubilee' opened at the ica i think - i was 13 didn't understand half of it but enough to feel ecstatic and leave the cinema having learned more than in one year at teddington boys school. all of his films are great
Wonderful interview. Been searching for it for ages as I watched it at the time. I never met Derek but for various publishing reasons, communicated in writing and he had the most beautiful handwriting and was terribly kind in refusing invitations! A true gentleman in all senses of the word.
Thanks for this. Derek Jarman's death in 1994 was a tremendous loss. I do oral history as part of my work in the heritage sector and Face to Face is an excellent inspiration of how to ask questions. Thanks for the upload @TLYT.
I have 'The Last of England' on DVD, which somehow seems a bit strange, when the recordings are an art piece. When I bought that DVD I must have done it out of fascination and intrigue, which when you think about it, that's entirely the point. Not to get philosophical like. I always wanted to be a florist, but that never happened lol
Such a brilliant mind has to deal with such an interviewer who's only obsessed by SEX GAY OUT and so on... But we are still thankful to be able to see and listen to Derek Jarman. An artist who made great films - and who cares what his sexual life was?
Derek and Jeremy Isaacs were very good friends and Jeremy had been a great supporter of Derek's work. I knew Derek well and he loved doing this interview. I don't think he felt even remotely that Jeremy Isaacs had been harsh on him. I hope this makes you feel better about the interview.
I don't know, its just an old-fashioned well-structured information seeking interview with the interviewer taking the role of an objective questioner. I like this style and it showcases Derek's biography rather than some performed bonhomie as is the norm in celebrity interviews these days.
talking about death and witnessing a man talk about his own foreseeable death is as harsh as it is tender as it is incredible as it is heart breaking. we will all be in Derek's position at some point but most of us will not be interviewed and we will part of that blessed crowd that do just disappear. strangely our love for the likes of Derek and each other means people never 'just disappear', even if there is no trail to our good and bad days and our wonderful thoughts. we leave behind us the ending beauty of love living and the socialism that is born and becomes ever more present and viable thanks to this grace and respect between the living and the dead
@@duhusker4383 A talented man, he's left no particular aesthetic legacy, and I've seen nothing to suggest he knew anything outside the suffocating lgbt community, firmly placed inside the equally oppressive suburban middle class. One or two scenes in _Sebastiane_ have some aesthetic qualities (just) but it's like a very tame porno movie with all the fun taken out. And that's not personal, he seemed a pleasant enough guy, but no-one born after 1990 has ever heard of him.
@@splinterbyrd Your last sentence is so idiotic it's almost funny. Most people born after the 1990s don't know who Eisenstein, Vertov, Fritz Lang, Godard, Bergman, Antonioni, Huston, Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi and many others were either. Derek Jarman has left a bigger legacy (cultural, aesthetic, sense of humour, sense of fun) than most of the boring, middle of the road film directors of the 20th century.
jarman made very 'ad-hoc' style movies his Jubilee from 1977 was like 'the news of the world' decided to do their own take on Punk and how they interpreted it - that actual bands and faces from the 'original wave' had anything at all to do with it is telling his Wittgenstein is obviously a 'homosexual alliance' film and little to do with the actual philosopher's intellectual mind and the other movies were equally of a kind
I was once lucky enough to share a lunchtime table with Derek at a cheap Italian restaurant - Il Pollo - on Old Compton Street, Soho, in 1982. My girlfriend, a St Martins student, had done some work with him on Jubilee, and introduced us. We hit it off and I used to see him fairly regularly in that same restaurant (is it still going?). Even had afternoon tea in his tiny flat on Charing Cross Road with the weird scrying globe. Lovely funny gentle man who very kindly forgave me for my heterosexuality. I remember a wonderful drunken conversation whose theme was "where are the great literary lesbians of today? Where is Vita Sackville-West? Where is our Una, Lady Trowbridge?" I miss him. Great talent - and great interview, thanks Jeremy.
Pollos’ was a fantastic place, so many good times when I was an impoverished art student. Lots of great conversations with new friends over pasta and red wine... But all gone now unfortunately, cherish those memories my friend...
Lovely memories. Thanks for sharing. 🌹
He has a childlike, open-heartedness and sincerity even when responding to very intrusive questions
What a beautiful human being.
Not a day goes by without missing him, his unique voice and perspective on life.
Jarman was one of my great heroes. He was unique, an individual, and everything he did-paintings, films, collages, gardening, writing, expressed that individuality.
what a beautiful glorious one of a kind man
i wish derek jarman was alive and in charge of the world. i remember when 'jubilee' opened at the ica i think - i was 13 didn't understand half of it but enough to feel ecstatic and leave the cinema having learned more than in one year at teddington boys school. all of his films are great
A great artist, sadly missed,
Wonderful interview. Been searching for it for ages as I watched it at the time. I never met Derek but for various publishing reasons, communicated in writing and he had the most beautiful handwriting and was terribly kind in refusing invitations! A true gentleman in all senses of the word.
Thanks for this. Derek Jarman's death in 1994 was a tremendous loss. I do oral history as part of my work in the heritage sector and Face to Face is an excellent inspiration of how to ask questions. Thanks for the upload @TLYT.
what a fabulas man I think Derek Jarman despite his illness really shows us ..how to live..how to be ..god bless Derek xx
Derek - a Genius and a kind human being!
Our great Monarch. Love DJ to bits. I have Modern Nature next to my bed which read endlessly. Thank you for this recording. Blue is a wonderful film.
so honest and kind and magnificent
wonderful beautiful Derek
What a delightful chap!
May you rest in peace Derek Jarman ❤️❤️
Thank you. just saw his exhibition in Dublin. incredible man 🙏
This is MARVELOUS! thanks so much for uploading this video! 🙏🏻
What a gorgeous, gorgeous man.
Beautiful man
what a brilliant man
the problem being that after all these years we are still "not open about HIV at all"
Federico Pinci horrible musique
3:10 music is from Berlioz Overture to Les Francs-juges
2.55-3.08 that was Derek
I have 'The Last of England' on DVD, which somehow seems a bit strange, when the recordings are an art piece. When I bought that DVD I must have done it out of fascination and intrigue, which when you think about it, that's entirely the point. Not to get philosophical like.
I always wanted to be a florist, but that never happened lol
This & Paul Eddington's 'Face to Face' interviews are the most poignant. Both men were dying when this was done.
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Such a brilliant mind has to deal with such an interviewer who's only obsessed by SEX GAY OUT and so on...
But we are still thankful to be able to see and listen to Derek Jarman.
An artist who made great films - and who cares what his sexual life was?
"Decadence is the first sign of intelligence"????? Or is it an escape from freedom and responsibility?
That doesn't even make sense.
Birds of Paradise must be geniuses.
the interviewer, was so harsh.... poor man,,
Kate Bush had a far more harsh interview in the eighties it is somewhere on TH-cam. Really really awful it is laughable!
Derek and Jeremy Isaacs were very good friends and Jeremy had been a great supporter of Derek's work. I knew Derek well and he loved doing this interview. I don't think he felt even remotely that Jeremy Isaacs had been harsh on him. I hope this makes you feel better about the interview.
I don't know, its just an old-fashioned well-structured information seeking interview with the interviewer taking the role of an objective questioner. I like this style and it showcases Derek's biography rather than some performed bonhomie as is the norm in celebrity interviews these days.
talking about death and witnessing a man talk about his own foreseeable death is as harsh as it is tender as it is incredible as it is heart breaking. we will all be in Derek's position at some point but most of us will not be interviewed and we will part of that blessed crowd that do just disappear. strangely our love for the likes of Derek and each other means people never 'just disappear', even if there is no trail to our good and bad days and our wonderful thoughts. we leave behind us the ending beauty of love living and the socialism that is born and becomes ever more present and viable thanks to this grace and respect between the living and the dead
No it wasnt
What a narrow life he led.
Narrow life? Or is it you who has a very narrow mind?
@@duhusker4383 A talented man, he's left no particular aesthetic legacy,
and I've seen nothing to suggest he knew anything outside the suffocating lgbt community, firmly placed inside the equally oppressive suburban middle class.
One or two scenes in _Sebastiane_ have some aesthetic qualities (just) but it's like a very tame porno movie with all the fun taken out.
And that's not personal, he seemed a pleasant enough guy, but no-one born after 1990 has ever heard of him.
@@splinterbyrd Your last sentence is so idiotic it's almost funny. Most people born after the 1990s don't know who Eisenstein, Vertov, Fritz Lang, Godard, Bergman, Antonioni, Huston, Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi and many others were either. Derek Jarman has left a bigger legacy (cultural, aesthetic, sense of humour, sense of fun) than most of the boring, middle of the road film directors of the 20th century.
@@duhusker4383 I like some of his paintings. Peace 🙂
jarman made very 'ad-hoc' style movies
his Jubilee from 1977 was like 'the news of the world' decided to do their own take on Punk and how they interpreted it - that actual bands and faces from the 'original wave' had anything at all to do with it is telling
his Wittgenstein is obviously a 'homosexual alliance' film and little to do with the actual philosopher's intellectual mind
and the other movies were equally of a kind
Thanks for your in-depth critique