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From ‘Blue’ (1993), Derek Jarman’s swan song ""Blue, made in 1993 when Aids was rendering Jarman blind, was his shocking, exquisite swan song. It has no images at all: just a still, blue screen through which Jarman intones an elegy for all that has been lost, loved and fought for. “I am in a blue funk . . . flashes of blue in my eyes. Blue of my dreams, slow blue hours, delphinium days.” Lovely essay this by
Top links 42 Blue two ways, Marx's cigars…
From ‘Blue’ (1993), Derek Jarman’s swan song ""Blue, made in 1993 when Aids was rendering Jarman blind, was his shocking, exquisite swan song. It has no images at all: just a still, blue screen through which Jarman intones an elegy for all that has been lost, loved and fought for. “I am in a blue funk . . . flashes of blue in my eyes. Blue of my dreams, slow blue hours, delphinium days.” Lovely essay this by