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Michael Goldfarb remembers the political and social mise-en-scène films from the 1960s and 70s. In this episode, he focuses on the work of film director Derek Jarman.

Michael Goldfarb remembers the political and social mise-en-scène films from the 1960s and 1970s, including work by Sam Peckinpah, Sidney Lumet and Derek Jarman. "²Ñ¾±²õ±ð-±ð²Ô-²õ³¦Ã¨²Ô±ð" means the arrangement of the scenery, props, on the set of a film or, more broadly, the social setting or surroundings of an event.

The word transgressive is one of the most overused by critics on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ arts programmes. Jarman was the real deal - a genuinely transgressive genius.

A considerable amount of his aesthetic had been formed in New York at the time Michael was driving a cab. They had long conversations about the great NYC avant-garde filmmakers who he knew and whose work he summarised in his films.

This is an essay not just about Jarman but also the New York avant-garde scene of the 1970s, when the forms of film-making were multitudinous and the lifestyle of film-makers had more in common with the avant-garde of early 20th-century bohemian Paris than Hollywood.

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