Country: UK
Year: 2008
Duration: 74'
The film is a portrait of Liverpool which the City Council commissioned “Going back to Liverpool was difficult. Lots of places I knew have gone;
to be part of the celebrations for its designation to European Capital of
Culture 2008. The key word is memory. Terence Davies returns to visit
the places and the time of his childhood, using rare archive materials
and more recent images. These are integrated by the voice-over author
with quotations from poets such as T.S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson and
by a soundtrack which blends classical music pieces and traditional folk
songs.
others are blighted by drugs: something that would never have
happened in my day. It reminds you of people who are no longer there
and it gives you a window on death. British stories like Of Time and
the City must be told by British filmmakers. There can only be truth
in a story which is truly specific to a time and place. And it is in that
truth that universal appeal will be found.”
Biography
film director
Terence Davies
Terence Davies (Liverpool, UK, 1945) after dropping out of school at sixteen he worked as a clerk before leaving Liverpool to attend Coventry Drama School. While there, he wrote the screenplay for what became his first autobiographical short, Children. Then Davies went to the National Film School and completed Madonna and Child, a continuation of the story of Davies’s alter ego, Robert Tucker. In 1983 he completed the trilogy with Death and Transfiguration. Later on he directed Distant Voices, Still Lives (International Critic’s Prize at Cannes Film Festival) and The Long Day Closes, both autobiographical films set in 40s and 50s Liverpool. Besides he directed The Neon Bible and The House of Mirth, adaptations of novels by John Kennedy Toole and Edith Wharton respectively.
FILMOGRAFIA
Children (cm, 1976), Madonna and Child (cm, 1980), Death and Trasfiguration (cm, 1983), The Terence Davies Trilogy (Terence Davies Trilogy, 1983), Distant Voices, Still Lives (Voci lontane… sempre presenti, 1988), The Long Day Closes (Il lungo giorno finisce, 1992), The Neon Bible (Serenata alla luna, 1995), The House of Mirth
(La casa della gioia, 2000), Of Time and the City (doc., 2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay Terence Davies
fotografia/cinematography Tim Pollard
montaggio/film editing Liza Ryan-Carter
musica/music Ian Neil
suono/sound Adam Ryan-Carter
produttori/producers Solon Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter
produzione/production Hurricane Films
distribuzione/distribution Northwest Vision Media, Digital Departure
vendita all’estero/world sales HanWay Films
fotografia/cinematography Tim Pollard
montaggio/film editing Liza Ryan-Carter
musica/music Ian Neil
suono/sound Adam Ryan-Carter
produttori/producers Solon Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter
produzione/production Hurricane Films
distribuzione/distribution Northwest Vision Media, Digital Departure
vendita all’estero/world sales HanWay Films