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Terence Davies 

 

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Director / Screenwriter
1945 -  
Born November 10, Liverpool, England
Key Production Country: UK 
Key Genres: Drama, Family Drama, Period Film
Key Collaborators: Olivia Stewart (Producer), Michael Coulter (Cinematographer), William Diver (Cinematographer/Editor), Christopher Hobbs (Production Designer)
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) ] [ Moving Image Source Article (2008) ]
Books: [ Terence Davies (British Film Makers) ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Long Day Closes (1992)
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: The House of Mirth (2000)
 
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)The Long Day Closes (1992)The House of Mirth (2000)The Neon Bible (1995)
 
     
  "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)  
     
  "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)  
     
  "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)  
     
  "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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