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Director:
Writer:
Derek Jarman (writer)
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Release Date:
September 1979 (USA) more
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Sex, drugs and punk rock. Add violence and time travel and you have Jubilee.
Plot:
Queen Elizabeth I travels to late twentieth-century Britain to discover a tawdry and depressing landscape... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Jenny Runacre ... Queen Elizabeth I / Bod
Nell Campbell ... Crabs (as Little Nell)

Toyah Willcox ... Mad
Jordan ... Amyl Nitrite
Hermine Demoriane ... Chaos
Ian Charleson ... Angel
Karl Johnson ... Sphinx
Linda Spurrier ... Viv
Neil Kennedy ... Max
Jack Birkett ... Borgia Ginz (as Orlando)
Wayne County ... Lounge Lizard

Richard O'Brien ... John Dee
David Brandon ... Ariel (as David Haughton)
Helen Wellington-Lloyd ... Lady in Waiting
Adam Ant ... Kid
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Runtime:
100 min
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Feature debut of Ian Charleson. more
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Revealing mistakes: After the policemen shoot Angel and Sphinx dead, Sphinx's eyes blink before the camera cuts away. more
Quotes:
Crabs: And the world's your oyster, so swallow it. more
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england's glory, 11 December 2003
9/10
Author: Purtle from The Salon of Exotic Reason

an unsettling mixture of the cosy and the offensive,this is derek jarmans most accessible movie. a truly eclectic cast,everyone gives their all,no matter how little that might be in some cases!! Jenny Runacre is magnificent as Elisabeth I and Bod,very regal as the former, totally insane and very regal as the latter,but her end speech as she walks away into eternity with John Dee is one of the most beautiful I've heard in any film. For one of the most shocking,how about Jordan (Amyl Nitrate) talking about her heroine...Myra Hindley...so 1977!! Jack Birkett as Borgia Ginz has one of the dirtiest laughs I've ever heard,he's lascivious,witty and charismatic.But then,someone who turns Buckingham Palace into a recording studio has got to be some sort of hero. I could go on about the other cast members,some of them now famous,some of them disappeared into obscurity...whatever happened to Hermine Demoriane??here as the french au-pair Chaos.I last saw her impersonating Nico in a French and Saunders sketch! I would thoroughly recommend this movie,its got a lot going for it,colourful,inventive,unpredictable. this is what punk was before it became just an excuse for The Lads to die their hair pretty colours and not get called poofs.

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