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Edward II

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3 Reasons To buy this film

One of the late director's all-time greatest.
One of the best examples of '90s-era "New Queer Cinema."
Tilda Swinton in her Venice Film Festival award-winning role.

Review

Not only one of the director's greatest, Edward II is one of the best examples of "New Queer Cinema." Jarman has reworked Christopher Marlowe's play into a homoerotic, sexually charged, radically relevant work for our times. Steven Waddington stars as the tragic King Edward, Andrew Tiernan as his beloved Gaveston, Nigel Terry as the villainous Mortimer and Tilda Swinton is the jealous and destructive Queen Isabella. When Annie Lennox appears crooning Cole Porter's classic "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye," the piece she performed in the AIDS benefit "Red, Hot and Blue," expect major goosebumps.

Graphically brutal, moving, surprisingly funny and always erotic, Jarman blends Marlowe's prose with contemporary jargon and costumes, replete with positive portrayals of queer sex, profanity and ACT-UP activists for a truly mesmerizing experience.

Brilliant, daring and innovative, Edward II is contemporary filmmaking at its finest, one of the best examples of modern queer cinema, and a must for serious film-lovers.

-- Erik Schut

Awards

Winner: Best Feature Film — 1992 Berlin International Film Festival
Winner: Best Actress (Tilda Swinton) — 1991 Venice Film Festival

Product Format Information

DVD : $9.99

Availability: ON ORDER
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Region Code: 1
UPC: 014381125726

Studio : Image

Languages: English Dolby Digital 5.1 , English Dolby Digital 2.0
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic 1.85
Extras: Trailers
Features:
Chapter selection
Digitally mastered
Featurette: 24-min. In the Spirit of Derek Jarman featuring Tilda Swinton

Customer Reviews

The Indescribable Adaptation Of Edward II

Janorm wrote on 04/09/2008:

Derek Jarman's film adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II is something that is just plain genius! Words cannot adequately describe this screen adaptation. You just have to experience it to know!! Sometimes you will have to see the film more than once as some of the visual effects are rather fleeting! I think, Marlowe would approve of this modernization, considering technology. The basic gay theme never faultered once during the entire film, much to the chargrin of some cultral elements! Definitely one of the Classics for the Gay Cinema and one for your Collection. THEME: GREED - MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN!!!

A must-own queer classic

Beautyboy wrote on 09/09/2000:

Even better the second time, this is one of my all-time favorites. I've shown it to so many friends over the years, and it keeps on getting better each time. The violence is pretty rough, but the sexual scenes and costumes are top-notch. I miss the director; he was just hitting his stride whe he made this and died a few years later. It's as good as everyone says it is (I just wish it was on DVD!!!)