| Name | Blue |
|---|---|
| Caption | Blue field |
| Director | Derek Jarman |
| Producer | James MackayTakashi Asai |
| Writer | Derek Jarman |
| Narrator | Derek JarmanTilda SwintonNigel TerryJohn Quentin |
| Music | Simon Fisher TurnerJohn BalanceMomusPeter ChristophersonKarol SzymanowskiErik Satie |
| Distributor | Basilisk Communications Ltd |
| Released | Venice Biennale, June 1993, Edinburgh International Film Festival, August 1993,October 3, 1993(New York Film Festival) |
| Runtime | 79 min. |
| Country | |
| Language | English |
The film was his last testament as a film-maker, and consists of a single shot of saturated blue colour filling the screen, as background to a soundtrack where Jarman's and some of his favourite actors' narration describes his life and vision.
On its premiere, Channel 4 and BBC Radio 3 collaborated on a simultaneous broadcast so viewers could enjoy a stereo soundtrack. Radio 3 subsequently broadcast the soundtrack separately as a radio play and it was later released as a CD.
The film ends with the words:
In time, No one will remember our work Our life will pass like the traces of a cloud And be scattered like Mist that is chased by the Rays of the sun
For our time is the passing of a shadow And our lives will run like Sparks through the stubble.I place a delphinium, Blue, upon your grave
The film has been released on DVD in Germany and in Italy. On July 23, 2007 British distributor Artificial Eye released DVD tying Blue together with Glitterbug, a collage of Jarman's Super 8 footage.
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| Name | The Verve |
|---|---|
| Landscape | yes |
| Background | group_or_band |
| Origin | Wigan, England |
| Genre | Alternative rock, britpop, shoegazing, neo-psychedelia, space rock |
| Years active | 1990–19951997–19992007–2009 |
| Label | EMI, Hut Records, Virgin Records, Parlophone, Vernon Yard |
| Associated acts | RPA & The United Nations of Sound, Richard Ashcroft, The Black Ships, The Shining |
| Url | theverve.co.uk |
| Past members | Richard AshcroftNick McCabeSimon JonesPeter SalisburySimon Tong |
The Verve were an English rock band formed in 1990 in Wigan by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones, and drummer Peter Salisbury. Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to shoegazing and space rock, by the mid-1990s the band had released several EPs and three albums. They also endured name and line-up changes, breakups, health problems, drug abuse and various lawsuits. Filter referred to them as "one of the tightest knit, yet ultimately volatile bands in history". The second single from the album, "Slide Away", topped the UK indie rock charts. During this period the band played a number of gigs with Oasis who, at the time, were relatively unknown.
Critic Mike Gee of iZINE said of this time, "The Verve, as he (Richard Ashcroft) promised, had become the greatest band in the world. ...The Verve were no longer the question mark or the cliché. They were the statement and the definition." During his solo career, Ashcroft expressed regret at having asked McCabe to return for the album instead of releasing it under his own name, saying: "Imagine being the guy that's written an album on his own, bottles it near the end, feels like there's unfinished business, rings Nick McCabe up who adds some guitars, puts it out as The Verve and the same problems arise again. Imagine being that mug. I've now got to rewrite history. Everyone thinks those songs are somehow associated with another bunch of people that I'm not with now". Being asked about the supposed split, Ashcroft told Daily Telegraph "I can confirm we did what we set out to do [...] Right now there are no plans to be doing anything in the near future."
McCabe and Jones have since started their own project, The Black Ships, along with electric violinist and arranger Davide Rossi and drummer Mig Schillace. Nick McCabe says "The Verve seems to be on holiday" on his myspace page
On July 7, 2010 Ashcroft confirmed that the band "is over for good". Though some weeks later he doesn't rule out a Verve reunion anymore.
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