Next Queen's Vernacular set for March 6 at the Pickford

This month's Queens' Vernacular arrives early. On Tuesday we'll screen British filmmaker Derek Jarman's lush and postmodern 1991 adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's 1592 play, Edward II, in which a pleasure-seeking king's desire for his same-sex paramour incurs the wrath of his queen, the Church, and the nobility and threatens to send the kingdom into chaos.

Jarman's film is one of the undisputed classics of 1990s New Queer Cinema, when formal innovation and transgressive content came together across a range of important works at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Jarman's films bring together the classical composition and references of a British public-school education with the energy and anarchy of the 1970s punk and New Wave scenes in which he first broke through as an artist. Tilda Swinton was Jarman's principal muse, and she's a major force in Edward II in the role of Queen Isabella.

Tuesday, March 6, 6:30 p.m. at the Pickford, only $3
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The Pickford's page is here, where you can buy tickets. They'll also be available at the door.
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