For this week’s edition of our queer film retrospective “A Gay Old Time,” we are getting down on our knees. And, in a surprising turn of events, it is actually not just for pleasure, but also for ...

British filmmaker Derek Jarman was a rebel with a cause: illuminating the censored gay subtext of historical figures while embracing cinema’s wide visual vocabulary. hear dean otto’s interview on the ...

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Shot entirely in sub-titled Latin, which makes it a strange precedent for Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, Sebastiane is Derek Jarman’s first work as a director (though he shared the job with ...

In 1976, director Derek Jarman's debut feature film Sebastiane prompted newspaper outrage with its plentiful nudity, gay Roman soldiers and Latin dialogue. Jarman was one of Britain's boldest ...

300 A.D. : the Roman Sebastianus is exiled to a remote outpost populated exclusively by men. Weakened by their desires, these men turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. However, ...

This essay examines the role of music in the late-medieval and Renaissance response to plague. According to doctors, the mere thought of plague could bring on the disease; they therefore prescribed ...