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Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understan...

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Derek Jarman

Film director

Born: 1942-01-31

Died: 1994-02-19

Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (January 31, 1942 – February 19, 1994) was a British film director, stage designer, artist, and writer. He is most known for his controversial films including Sebastiane (1975), the first film in Latin, Jubilee (1977) in which Queen Elizabeth I was transported to the punk contemporary England, and Blue (1993) which depicted his own suffering with AIDS. Jarman was gay and an outspoken supporter of gay rights; he also cultivated a beautiful garden at his home in Dungeness, Kent.More