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...marry the role of Dil with the proper actor, Jordan says, "I needed a man with a very particular kind of femininity." Davidson, who was spotted by a casting assistant at a wrap party for Derek Jarman's gay-toned Edward II, had a sad, elfin, ambiguous, direct, unique screen charisma ideal for Dil. "The only thing nonactors have to work with is themselves," says the director. "What the movie camera sees is a person's spirit. You can't hide that...
...Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt, is content to watch two young people disrobe in an English mansion. Robert Altman had the inspiration to show a restless 17th century audience at Rameau's Les Boreades, then neglected to develop his night-at-the-opera sketch with any coherence. Derek Jarman's episode, to Charpentier's Louise, imagines an old diva taking a final curtain call, her mind garlanded with fading memories. Sweet but frail...
...comprised of Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, and Malachi Favors Meghostut, abide by the motto "Ancient to the Future." As Bowie explains; "We want the different elements of music--some of our stuff has lovely little melodies, and a lot is wild stuff...
...were doing this whole parody of rock concerts. Joseph [Jarman] came out naked as a joke, pretending to jam on a guitar, and everything was cool. We had these smoke bombs, though, and we were throwing em out into the audience--but then we found out they were fire bombs instead. Sleeping bags were catching fire and the crowd throwing the bombs back. People thought we were trying to sabotage the festival," he laughs...
...that of a modern work in courtly guise. If the music will not carry the dramatic load, then the action must. The director updates the splendid, rather literary W.H. Auden-Chester Kallmann libretto from 18th century to contemporary England without altering a word of text. Realized by Designer Derek Jarman, the images are vivid and immediate, painted in hard, splashy colors to evoke a drug-and crime-ridden world...