Wittgenstein [videorecording] / Channel Four Television and the British Film Institute in association with Uplink, Japan present a Bandung production ; written by Derek Jarman, Terry Eagleton, Ken Butler ; produced by Tariq Ali ; directed by Derek Jarman.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1993. Issued as part of a 4-disc set: Glitterbox : Derek Jarman X 4. Program notes inserted in container. Special features: Video interviews with Tilda Swinton, Karl Johnson, and Tariq Ali; extensive behind-the-scenes footage; video introduction by film historian Ian Christie; 'The clearing' (written & directed by Alexis Bisticos, 1993), a short film featuring Derek Jarman. Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin, Kevin Collins, Clancy Chassay, Nabil Shaban, Sally Dexter, Lynn Seymour.
Summary:
A stunning and profoundly entertaining work on modern philosophy and the genius that revolutionized it. A humorous and bold portrait of the irreverent 20th-century gay thinker who preferred detective fiction and Carmen Miranda musicals to Aristotle.
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