Blue (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: August 27, 2019
  • Originally Released: 1993
  • Label: Kino Classics

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User Ratings: 7,825
Not even an unsentimental basketball fan like director William Friedkin can wash away all the corn syrup. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Mar 25, 2008
A deafness-inducing but otherwise ho-hum would-be expose of shady recruiting practices by college basketball programs.
Variety
Mar 25, 2008
...Binoche has a face that is well-suited to this kind of role....Her feelings are a mystery that her face will help us solve...
Chicago Sun-Times
Feb 11, 1994
Rating: 3/4 -- What Friedkin brings to the story is a tone that feels completely accurate; the movie is a morality play, told in the realistic, sometimes cynical terms of modern high-pressure college sports. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
Watching various hoop stars and legends trying to act is cringeworthy, O'Neal particularly bad, but Friedkin's movie, written by sports film specialist Shelton has a lot of passion. Full Review
Film4
Mar 25, 2008
...It's a worthy addition to the AIDS film canon....Jarman has remained true to himself...
Film Comment
Nov 1, 1993
...Heartbreaking....Riveting....Searing moments...
New York Times
Oct 2, 1993

Product Description:

Derek Jarman's final film is a musically embroiled reflection on his life and his rapidly deteriorating physical condition. While battling AIDS and his corresponding loss of sight, Jarman daringly created a film like no other. Set against a pulsing and unwavering blue screen, BLUE is alternately a metaphor for physical and spiritual blindness and an homage to French painter Yves Klein. Jarman's memories, narrative sketches, and philosophies are read by himself and various artists in voice-overs set to a stirring score by Simon Fisher Turner. Void of visual imagery, Jarman plays with an over-developed sense of sound, highlighting the poetic lull of the spoken narrative--chimes and church bells ring, the washer and dryer at his home powerfully thump like monsters, painfully reminding the viewer that the narrator no longer perceives the visual world. Jarman's deeply visual sense of memory, peppered by darkly comic cynicism and dreamy romanticism, is left to linger over the rich blue screen. This final film serves as a pièce de résistance for the controversial maverick filmmaker whose work consistently confronted issues affecting the gay community with a uniquely stylish beauty and unwavering bravado.

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  • UPC: 738329239275
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