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Film

Jubilee

Saturday, Nov 1, 2008

3 p.m.

Additional Info

1977, 103 min.

Support for the Derek Jarman film series is provided by the Susan Wildberg Morgenstein Fund.

Image: Derek Jarman, Jubilee (still), 1977; photo courtesy Tony Lytle, Howard Malin, and the British Film Institute

Queen Elizabeth I time travels to the late 20th Century only to find herself smack dab in the middle of a punk wasteland. Anarchy, rampant sexuality, nihilism, and anti-establishment/parent/authority culture rules the realm. One of the best, if sometimes overlooked, punk films ever created.