http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0106438/
After a series of prolonged chimes, the screen is illuminated in blue -- a bright, unchanging shade of it. Blue it is after 10 minutes. Blue it is after 30 minutes. Blue after an hour. Blue, blue, blue for 76 minutes.
No, you are not having a monotonal hallucination. You are watching Derek Jarman's accurately named "Blue." The only visual highlights (save for a flash image right at the end -- which I apparently missed by looking away just then) are imperfections in the film: a hair caught perhaps in the projector lens, or a snow-like effect when the film changes reels.
This can get dizzying, nauseating or hypnotic -- depending on your sensory makeup or your attitude to visual deprivation. You can tell yourself you are watching ocean, sky or the inside of your eyelids. You may retreat to the more comforting darkness at your feet.
But what counts is the relentless sameness of it all, the sense that you are caught in one, unyielding bout of suffocation. This is about sightlessness, the blindness before death -- caused by that infamous, anagrammatic disease known by four cruel letters. In touching, autobiographical testimony by Jarman (assisted by John Quentin, Nigel Terry and Tilda Swinton), the dying filmmaker -- he has AIDS -- tells us about his coming darkness.
But Jarman is disgusted with self-pity, resentful of charity and angry about indifference. He avoids self-serving poignance -- reaching a grainier, more satisfying strain instead. This is about him raging against the dying of the light. Instead of watching for colors, you listen to them, as Jarman et al speak of "blue funk," "bluebottle buzzing," "sky blue," "blue of my heart" and "the fathomless bliss of blue."
Jarman, who has made a consistently challenging series of works, including "Caravaggio" "The Last of England," "Edward II," "War Requiem" and "Wittgenstein" has gone -- once again -- with bold intuition. You can dismiss the project as laughable, or you can appreciate his confidence and conviction.
There is so much more here than purple-prosey dread. Jarman offers evocative, darkly humorous testimony about his visits to the waiting rooms of St. Bartholomew's and St. Mary's hospitals in England. He makes amusing mincemeat of charity, homophobes and even gay activists who coin such pseudo-valiant euphemisms as "living with AIDS." He speaks cynically and bitterly at times, yet switches to tenderness for a companion known as "H. B." (to whom, along with "All True Lovers," this movie is dedicated). His words are restless, a battery of passing, original turns of phrase. You may sit through "Blue" with nothing to see, but you leave it rich with images -- fading pictures of one man's life.
Derek Jarman's masterwork! I found it in a shop monday and... here it isRuntime: 01:15:07
Size: 300MB
[Video]
Video format: PAL
FPS: 25
Size: 624 x 352
Video bitrate (kbps): 364
Is this too much for such a movie? Too little? I don't know... it looks good.
Video codec: ffmpeg
AF6 codec: mpeg4
2-pass-encoded: yes
[Audio]
DVD audio track id: 1
Language: en
Audio codec: ac3
Channels: 2
Sample rate: 48000
Audio bitrate (kbps): 192
The movie:
Derek Jarman - Blue - 1993 - (English Audio - AC3).ogm 
The script:Derek Jarman - Blue.pdf I made the english subtitles out of the script:http://titles.box.sk/xsubt.subt.link.ph ... 801%5D.rar
Thx. I'll try it. Thanks specially for the english subs. 
:plas:
Thanks! 
I guess during summertime this passed under the radar of many...
