Jubilee is a 1978 British drama film directed by Derek Jarman. It stars Jenny Runacre, Ian Charleson, Nell Campbell, Hermine Demoriane and a host of punk rockers. The title refers to the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 1977. [6]

Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.

With its uninhibited punk petulance and sloganeering, Jubilee brings together many cultural and musical icons of the time, including Jordan, Toyah Willcox, Little Nell, Wayne County, Adam Ant, and Brian Eno (with his first original film score), to create a genuinely unique, unforgettable vision.

Feb 14, 2025 · At the heart of JUBILEE are its young protagonists, a group of punks led by the murderous and volatile Bod (Runacre again, doubling the duty representing two disparate sides of leadership), whose victim including the proto-punk artist Jayne County (playing a glam rock star named Lounge Lizard).

Apr 4, 2016 · Hulu has a metric fuckton of bizarre Criterion movies available for streaming, and leave it to me to start with one of the weirdest: Jubilee (1978), a stream-of-conscious punk rock dystopia. This plotless melange of guerilla filmmaking has an incongruous Shakespearean frame: Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre), with the assistance of an occultist, conjures a spirit guide who transports her ...

Oct 8, 2020 · The idea of a punk movie brought in some backers who thought they could make a quick buck out of punk rock. Jarman opened the film up to include some ideas from a script he had written about the Elizabethan magus Doctor John Dee.

Jun 1, 2021 · The punk aesthetic—with its body-conscious silhouette, exaggerated makeup and hair, monochromatic black palette slashed with primary colors, 1950s vintage details, and casual use of bondage gear—has been an inspiration for both couturiers and those looking for a cheap Halloween costume.

Nov 12, 2024 · Jubilee incorporates many groups that were ignored, marginalised, or even vilified by Official Punk (as witness Westwood’s t-shirt letter), such as radical feminists, Black people, and the queer community. It was made with friends in a spirit of friendship.

Oct 12, 2018 · Bod (Jenny Runacre) is a lupine sophisticate who leads the gang and becomes its queen after stealing the crown jewels; Mad (Toyah Willcox), who sports close-cropped and dyed-orange hair is a...

Derek Jarman’s eulogy to punk is very much a product of the art school spirit of the time: incredibly pretentious and never dull. In the year 1578, Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) asks her court magician and astrologer, Dr John Dee (Richard O’Brien), to give her a vision of “the shadow of her time.”