Part of Poets of Pandaemonium: The Cinema of Derek Jarman and Humphrey Jennings
Saturday, February 9, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

Angelic Conversation. Dir. Derek Jarman. 1985, 77 mins. DCP source: BFI.  
Preceded by Words for Battle. Dir. Humphrey Jennings. 1941, 8 mins. 35mm print source: BFI. Words for Battle and Angelic Conversation are quiet works of contemplation whose expressionistic visual montages are backgrounded by the reading of poetry. In Words for Battle the reader of works by Milton, Blake, Kipling, and others is a young Laurence Olivier. Meanwhile in Angelic Conversation, Judi Dench reads Shakespeare’s deeply personal sonnets. Jennings’s aim was the stoking of British patriotism while Jarman pursued a personal poetics, but both explore the marriage of poetry and film with a masterfully soft touch.

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