Of Time and the City (2008)
Country: GB
Technical: col 74m
Director: Terence Davies
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
Filmmaker Terence Davies looks back at the years of his life spent in Liverpool through a portrait of the city that is at times nostalgic, at others jaundiced.
Review:
The director's very personal reminiscences and musings, often couched in other writers' verses or adumbrated with others' music, make this absorbing film portrait somewhat less like a documentary than many of its images might suggest. It is at times reminiscent of Vertov's People on Sunday, or other city films such as Symphony of a City or People on Sunday, but for that matter other images recall those of Godfrey Reggio. Running through it is the watershed of Davies's awakening homosexuality and epiphanous atheism, and there are other idiosyncratic touches such as his anti-Royalism. Whatever the case, it traverses the territory of the personal and the public like all true art.
Country: GB
Technical: col 74m
Director: Terence Davies
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
Filmmaker Terence Davies looks back at the years of his life spent in Liverpool through a portrait of the city that is at times nostalgic, at others jaundiced.
Review:
The director's very personal reminiscences and musings, often couched in other writers' verses or adumbrated with others' music, make this absorbing film portrait somewhat less like a documentary than many of its images might suggest. It is at times reminiscent of Vertov's People on Sunday, or other city films such as Symphony of a City or People on Sunday, but for that matter other images recall those of Godfrey Reggio. Running through it is the watershed of Davies's awakening homosexuality and epiphanous atheism, and there are other idiosyncratic touches such as his anti-Royalism. Whatever the case, it traverses the territory of the personal and the public like all true art.
Country: GB
Technical: col 74m
Director: Terence Davies
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
Filmmaker Terence Davies looks back at the years of his life spent in Liverpool through a portrait of the city that is at times nostalgic, at others jaundiced.
Review:
The director's very personal reminiscences and musings, often couched in other writers' verses or adumbrated with others' music, make this absorbing film portrait somewhat less like a documentary than many of its images might suggest. It is at times reminiscent of Vertov's People on Sunday, or other city films such as Symphony of a City or People on Sunday, but for that matter other images recall those of Godfrey Reggio. Running through it is the watershed of Davies's awakening homosexuality and epiphanous atheism, and there are other idiosyncratic touches such as his anti-Royalism. Whatever the case, it traverses the territory of the personal and the public like all true art.