Adam Ant, David Brandon, Hermine Demoriane

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R, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Derek Jarman

Release Date: December 31, 1977

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DVD Release Date: May 27, 2003

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  • July 5, 2009
    weird weird weird British stage show and street trash exhibition. I'm a Toyah fan so had to see this movie.
  • June 6, 2008
    overall this was good but there were aspects of it i couldnt stand, like whenever i saw Mad... ew. but Amyl, oh deary, total babe lol. i love her. interesting movie, not the only kind of punk keep in mind. SLC Punk is an equivalent. with the exception of having a freakin plot.
  • August 20, 2007
    Great set-up, not so great outcome. Definitely worth watching once if you're even slightly interested in weird films or punk rock, but perhaps not a second time (though I suppose you'd really need a second watch to fully understand this film).
  • September 10, 2006
    This is a pretty odd film. Not one i would watch again
  • April 15, 2008
    This film is very "punk" and definitely a product of the time (1977) it was made.
    Great music in it, and a score by Brian Eno.
    On the surface it seems like a bunch of rag-tag individuals fucking about, but there's alot of comment and satire in it. Even toward the sub-culture i...( read more)t's glorifying.
    Where else will you see a gritty future, inhabited with punks, the clergy owning everything and all this being discovered by Queen Elizabeth 1.
  • June 19, 2009
    "As long as the music is loud enough, you can't hear the world fall apart around you". Dr. John Dee takes Queen Elizabeth into the future of England and basically, MTV has taken over. VERY low budget and the acting is so bad it's almost amusing. But the idea was neat and I liked ...( read more)the characters.
  • June 13, 2009
    Jubilee is a movie not for everyone liking.
    I found that I enjoyed it more the 2nd time around.
    Queen Elizabeth 1 asks her court alchemist (Richard O'Brien.. Rocky Horror Picture Show) to show her what will be come of her kingdom after she is long gone. They end up in London whic...( read more)h has been over run by Punks. Some interesting music, also some great supporting cast which includes (Adam Ant from Adam & The Ants) (Little Nell.. Rocky Horror Picture Show)
  • December 9, 2008
    no thanks not my thing
  • August 30, 2008
    It's absurd, violent, stupid, awfully acted, and completely irresistible. In 1977, punk rock was starting a revolution (thus ending its revolution, due to its own self-deprecating manifesto) -- and this movie is just that -- self-defeating. Punk rock film cameos? Please! This is ...( read more)one of those obscure, terrible movies that I love, along with Ricky-Oh and Gummo. It's awful, but how do you rate a movie that has you glued to it, just for the eye-rolls it induces?
  • June 30, 2008
    Queen Elizabeth asks her court alchemist to show her a vision of England in the future, and the alchemist summons a angle/spirit guide(played by Adam Ant) who transports her to London 400 years into the future where it is a post apacalyptic wasteland. The story then follows a gro...( read more)up of nihilistic girl punks who all get lengthy monologues(as does almost every character) on British history, art, sex, love, the music industry, anarchy, God, the end of western civilization etc, and their dealings with a mass media mogul who virtually controls the city, sadistic fascist police, and each other. All of the dialogue between the Queen, her alchemist, and the spirit is all in poetic verse, while all of the future talking is mostly cockney sloganeering which was so pretentious in the first couple of scenes I almost turned it off. However it really picked up after about the first fifteen minutes and you barely notice it. It's not really a film about punk so much as it is a film about the breakdown of civilization, which uses the punk scene as vehicle for the metaphor. It was actually a lot better than I thought it would be, I definitely recommend it for those of you interested in this sort of thing. Recording legend Brian Eno also does the score, and if that doesn't sweeten to pot for your to watch this, nothing will. Jarman has had many successes since, but none this vital, at least not for me.

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  • xxcatgirlxx
    March 22, 2007
    No one seems to know Little Nell movies and this is one of them. . . someone should really make her a Flixster account, I would but I don't know how.

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