The Gospel According to St. Derek. Andy Kimpton-Nye. 2014.
This documentary can be found on Youtube here, here, and here.
It’s a quite traditional documentary: A theme is established, and then they get a series of people talking about that, and then a new subject, and then pretty much all the same people talking about that new subject. It’s OK, but it fails when the director tries to replicate some of Jarman’s mannerisms, doing super-8-like stuff with video, and it looks horrible.
“We got about four films made off the back of being Derek’s last film.”
Hm… some of these interviews seem very familiar. Did I already watch this? Hm… Oh yeah! Many of these interviews were also in Life as Art, which was made a decade earlier.
But this is a different film.
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