It was shown on Channel 4 in 1993: 75 minutes of luminous, glowing blue accompanied by a live Radio 3 broadcast of the voices of Tilda Swinton, Jarman and various of his friends speaking his final valedictory script.
At the screening I attended, the final valedictory montage had grown men wiping their eyes.
The mingled chimes of slung mugs and bells continue during God's final valedictory blessing.
Within this blend of the bathetically everyday and profound Last Things, my father finished his final book, that valedictory to which we sometimes attach romantic expectations: We want it to be a summation of a life's work; a perfect synthesis of the artist's preoccupations.
Departing editors are allowed, however, to give themselves one final consolation: a signed, valedictory editorial as an occasion for some reflection, some explanation, much self-indulgence and usually a little ancestor-worship.
FX's American Crime Story: The Death of Gianni Versace, won three awards, and another of that network's shows, the Cold War drama The Americans, capped its final season with two valedictory awards.
In the final shot of his valedictory film, DeMille crowns his paean to the greatest prophet who ever lived by parading him through the medley of American icons to which he had been compared over the years -- the Liberty Bell, Lady Liberty -- until he becomes the embodiment of America enlightening the world.
Gergiev caught the grim mood of the "Symphonic Dances," the composer's valedictory statement; the final movement, with its allusions to the Dies Irae, was propulsive, even brutal.
But when you least expect it, all of the messiness slips away, in the clarity of the final chapter: a lovely, straightforward valedictory for his father, an independent centenarian who died in 2005 after a long career as a public school teacher and administrator.
Merkel and Obama developed a close working relationship and the German government sees his choice of Berlin as his final European stop on his valedictory tour as a testament to that personal bond and to Germany's status as a bastion of relative stability on a turbulent continent.
But the Foxes beat Kent to reach Saturday's finals day and despite bat-waving valedictory exits in front of a 24,000 crowd after he was out in both the semi-final and final, Nixon confirmed that he plans to play in the six-team pre-Champions League qualifying competition in Hyderabad next month.
