FILM DIRECTOR

Derek Jarman

1942 - 1994

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Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, poet, gardener, and gay rights activist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Derek Jarman has received more than 1,356,346 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Derek Jarman is the 477th most popular film director (down from 358th in 2019), the 1,784th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,416th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Derek Jarmen by language

Over the past year Derek Jarman has had the most page views in the with 171,400 views, followed by Italian (13,203), and Japanese (12,189). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (82.72%), Dutch (79.41%), and Hungarian (26.60%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Derek Jarman ranks 477 out of 2,041. Before him are Michael Radford, John Hughes, Robert Rossen, Richard Lester, Moshé Mizrahi, and Larisa Shepitko. After him are André Hunebelle, John Badham, Edward Zwick, George P. Cosmatos, Juraj Jakubisko, and Fernando Meirelles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Derek Jarman ranks 213. Before him are Leo Nucci, Vyacheslav Zudov, Hayedeh, John Sulston, Anatoli Bugorski, and Rupert Sheldrake. After him are Oscar Bonavena, Curtis Mayfield, Heidi Brühl, Takao Nishiyama, Gabriele Veneziano, and Oliviero Toscani. Among people deceased in 1994, Derek Jarman ranks 122. Before him are Heinz Rühmann, Enrique Líster, Woody Strode, Giovanni Spadolini, Manfred Wörner, and Claude Akins. After him are Zail Singh, Motoo Kimura, Stephen Cole Kleene, Dean Rusk, John Edward Williams, and Frederick Copleston.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Derek Jarman ranks 1,784 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry More (1614), Raymond Williams (1921), William Buckland (1784), David Roberts (1796), Stephen Toulmin (1922), and William Jones (1675). After him are Shakin' Stevens (1948), Clarke Abel (1780), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Robert Palmer (1949), and Asma al-Assad (1975).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Derek Jarman ranks 30. Before him are Roland Joffé (1945), Sam Mendes (1965), John Guillermin (1925), Michael Anderson (1920), David Yates (1963), and Ken Russell (1927). After him are John Badham (1939), Michael Apted (1941), Mike Leigh (1943), Peter Yates (1929), Ken Annakin (1914), and Paul W. S. Anderson (1965).

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Filmography

Sebastiane
Director
Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers, weakened by their desires, turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. Sebastian becomes the target of lust for the officer Severus, but repeatedly rejects the man's advances. Castigated for his Christian faith, he is tortured, humiliated and ultimately killed.
Dec 17o 19766.7 / 10
Caravaggio
Director
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
Aug 29o 19866.1 / 10
Wittgenstein
Director
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.
Mar 26o 19936.292 / 10