Jubilee

Year:	1978
Country:	UK
Language:	English
Genre:	Arthouse & Indie, Cult
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	5.5 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	8 Have Seen, 2 Wishlist


Director	Derek Jarman
Selected Cast	Jenny Runacre as Queen Elizabeth I / Bod
	Nell Campbell as Crabs
	Toyah Wilcox as Mad
	Jordan as Amyl Nitrite
	Richard O'Brien as John Dee
	Adam Ant as Kid
Producer	Howard Malin
	James Whaley
Soundtrack	Brian Eno

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Jubilee - Siren Visual Entertainment - Australia (2004)

DVD Box Set

The Derek Jarman Collection - Umbrella Entertainment - Australia (2012)

Comments and Reviews


alexlincs 1st Oct 2021		Times Square was like a really bad rip-off of a John Hughes film. Suburbia I quite like; it was like the Kids from the Black Hole song brought to life, but not not as good as it should have been given the same director did three excellent documentaries and scored a home run later with Wayne's World. Rude Boy - I've not seen I was put off by it being over 2 hours long. Oh, also forgot Sid & Nancy. Great acting by Gary Oldman and some excellent photography, but given Alex Cox knows punk and was friends with Joe Strummer it came across like it was written by somebody who read Sex Pistols biography and put it into a film. For some reason people love that film though.



Twistin 30th Sep 2021		Regarding bad punk films, I think Suburbia also missed the mark. Times Square is so highly praised and it was, IMO, the worst of the lot with not a convincing moment in the entire film. Never heard of Jubilee until now, but I want to see it, warts and all.



Burton LeB SUBS ● 30th Sep 2021		@alexlincs Thanks Alex, I agree with all that you say, and that this is most definitely a prime example of style over substance; being directed by Derek Jarman didn't do it any favours - I like some of his work but in the case of Jubilee it wasn't a good mixture. A punk equivalent of Quadrophenia would be excellent! I think that Rude Boy was an attempt to merge fiction with documentary but that didn't come off too well.



alexlincs 30th Sep 2021		@Burton LeB Great review. I rated it slightly higher at 6 out of 10. I think it is style over substance. Every punk film I've seen has been a disappointment, unless it's a documentary: Fabulous Stains, Breaking Glass, Times Square, Who killed Bambi?, Jubilee. They're all a good snapshot of the time, but where's the punk equivalent of Quadrophenia?



Burton LeB SUBS ● 26th Sep 2021		Rated 5/10 Back in the day a few of my friends had been to see Jubilee, and they were all in agreement that it was a bore. Being into punk like my friends, I just couldn't understand how a punk film could possibly be boring - until I saw it, that is. Maybe my friends and I weren't expecting such a theatrical approach, or maybe we were just not sophisticated or patient enough to 'get' it.. either way, the experience wasn't a good one. Dull in extremis, and pretentious to boot; matters were not helped by the fact that the projector broke down about halfway into the film, and the cinema manager came out to ask the audience for patience as it 'really is worth your time' (or so he said). Resigned to having travelled and paid to be there at this flea pit in Soho to see it, my girlfriend and I stayed put but all we got for our efforts were heavy eyelids and numb backsides. Three memorable moments however linger in my mind; the first is Adam Ant's inability to suppress his laughter during one scene - no doubt because he realised how daft the whole thing must look and he was amused by the concept of people parting with good money to watch this nonsense. The two others are musical ones - Adam And The Ants performing "Plastic Surgery", and Maneaters doing "Nine To Five", where an almost unrecognisable Toyah ends the song by spitting directly at the screen. I know exactly how she felt. 8 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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