The Tempest (1979)
Directed by Derek Jarman · Cinematography by Peter Middleton
R95 min53 frames
DramaFantasy
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
Stills, screencaps & shots from The Tempest
16 of 53 frames — the full set is searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, color and mood with a free account.
The Tempest — official trailer
What is The Tempest about?
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck the Italian ship. The king's son, thinking all others lost, becomes Prospero's prisoner, falling in love with Miranda and she with him. Prospero's brother and the king wander the island, as do a drunken cook and sailor, who conspire with Caliban, Prospero's beastly slave, to murder Prospero. Prospero wants reason to triumph, Ariel wants his freedom, Miranda a husband; the sailors want to dance.
The Tempest is a 1979 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Directed by Derek Jarman, produced by Don Boyd, with Heathcote Williams as Prospero, it also stars Toyah Willcox, Jack Birkett, Karl Johnson and Helen Wellington-Lloyd from Jarman's previous feature, Jubilee (1977).
Second paragraph from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where can you watch The Tempest?
US availability for The Tempest (1979). Provided by Streaming Availability API by Movie of the Night. Availability changes — check the provider for current listings.
Who stars in The Tempest?
Who made The Tempest?
Derek JarmanDirector- Peter MiddletonCinematography
- Guy FordProducer
- Mordecai ShreiberProducer
What does the cinematography of The Tempest look like?
Sampled across 52 frames, the coverage of The Tempest leans on medium shots (44% of the sample) and close-ups (37%). Cinematographer Peter Middleton keeps 67% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 83% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 79% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of The Tempest?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Tempest (1979) are #0c0a08, #251910, #48372b, #f5f4ec, #d5d3c9, #574835 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
#0c0a08#251910#48372b#f5f4ec#d5d3c9#574835
See the full The Tempest colour palette — every hex with its share, plus warmth, saturation and luminance.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 53 frames of The Tempest (1979), and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.
Techniques in this film
More films by Derek Jarman
More Drama films
Cast, trailer and streaming data from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.