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| Terence
Davies |
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| Director
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| 1945 - |
| Born November 10,
Liverpool, England |
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Production Country: UK
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Key Genres: Drama,
Family Drama, Period Film |
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Collaborators: Olivia Stewart
(Producer), Michael Coulter (Cinematographer), William Diver (Cinematographer/Editor),
Christopher Hobbs (Production Designer) |
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Highly Recommended: Distant
Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Long Day Closes (1992), The House of
Mirth (2000) |
| Recommended: The
Neon Bible (1995), Of Time and the City (2008) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [
Screen Online Biography ] [ Guardian
Unlimited Interview ] [
indieWIRE Interview (2000) ] [
Guardian Interview (2006) ] [
Close-Up Film Interview (2007) ] [
Bright Lights Film Journal Article (2008)
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Moving Image Source Article (2008) ] |
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Books:
[
Terence Davies (British Film Makers)
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DVD's:
[ Amazon
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Greatest Films: Distant
Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Long Day Closes
(1992) |
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
The House of Mirth (2000), Of Time and
the City (2008) |
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"British
director best known for painful - and painstaking - portraits of
childhood. Davies' own harrowing experiences at the hands of an
abusive father colour and infuse all his portraits of a
working-class Britain. Nonetheless, these are flavoursome, if
slow - sometimes to the point of inertia - nostalgia pieces;
their atmosphere is 100 per cent redolent of Davies' upbringing
in a disease-ridden Liverpool slum area, the youngest of ten
children." - David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999) |
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"He shows a passionate concern with film craft, lamenting
what he sees as the British instinct to use film as a medium for
recorded theatre; primarily verbal, sentimental, and in the
tight bodice of traditional narrative. His films are remarkably
effective in disturbing, collective memories - and myths - of
British cultural life with such cinematic ingenuity." -
Saul Frampton (The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia, 1998) |
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"Made
on low budgets provided by institutional resources, the films of
Terence Davies reveal a highly original, audacious film-maker.
Few contemporary figures match his ability or his interest in
charting the dark recesses and haunts of the soul; fewer still
do with such sincerity and compassion. Indeed, he is that
rarity: a British, but never parochial, director who views
cinema seriously and passionately, thus fulfilling the loftiest
demands of art." - Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"I
make films to come to terms with my family history...If there
had been no suffering, there would have been no films."
- Terence Davies |
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