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The Long Day Closes (1992) Terence Davies, Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson
The Long Day Closes is the story of eleven-year-old “Bud.” A sad and lonely boy, Bud struggles through his days. Read More »
A Quiet Passion (2016) Terence Davies, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff
A Quiet Passion is Terence Davies’ biographical drama detailing the life of Emily Dickinson her loves, her struggles and her magnificent poetry. Read More »
Sunset Song (2015) Terence Davies, Ken Blackburn, Mark Bonnar, Stuart Bowman
Spanning the 1910 decade, six years in the life of a girl named Chris, one of the numerous children of a tyrannical Scottish farmer. Read More »
The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983) Terence Davies, Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley
Davies’ film is divided into three segments entitled “Children”, “Madonna and Child”, and “Death and Transfiguartion”. Read More »
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Terence Davies, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Drama, Music
The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series (‘Trilogy’, ‘The Long Day Closes’) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies’s own family. Read More »
Of Time and the City (2008) Terence Davies, Documentary, Biography
Terence Davies (1945- ), filmmaker and writer, takes us, sometimes obliquely, to his childhood and youth in Liverpool. He’s born Catholic and poor; later he rejects religion. He discovers homo-eroticism, and it’s tinged with Catholic guilt. Enjoying pop music gives way to a teenage love of Mahler and Wagner. Using archival footage, we take a ferry to a day on the beach. Postwar prosperity brings some positive change, but its concrete architecture is dispiriting. Contemporary colors and sights of children playing may balance out the presence of unemployment and persistent poverty. Davies’ narration is a mix of his own reflections and the poems and prose of others.
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