Edward II

Jarman was, despite – or perhaps because of – his iconoclasm, a genuinely English artist, and mined the canon on several occasions, here tackling Marlowe’s regal tragedy head-on in a visceral contemporary update. Outrage activists, business suits, army officer class symbolics: the grim realities of gay oppression in Thatcher’s Britain get a vigorous dramatisation via a doubly historical reframing.

* We are pleased to welcome Christopher Hobbs, the film's production designer, to introduce the screening.