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Terence Davies - what members say


  • The House Of Mirth
  • The House Of Mirth review by from Oxon
    Rated - 4 stars Misery and deceit 19 May 2005
    ...Wharton's novels, nor watch period dramas based on them. But the combination of Terence Davies' beautifully precise film-making, Gillian Anderson's performance and the sheer ...  
  • Distant Voices, Still Lives
  • Distant Voices, Still Lives review by A customer from London
    Rated - 5 stars Mesmerising 19 January 2007
    ...Terence Davies is one of the rare British directors who shows poetic Britain we never see on screen. Brave and with a distinct signature of a genius and a poet at heart. ...  
  • The Long Day Closes
  • The Long Day Closes review by Doctorbas from London
    Rated - 5 stars A dark jewel of a film. 19 September 2008
    ... for editing but denied it by their owner, whose cutting room floor is bare. Terence Davies is not such a writer and director. The Long Day Closes is, for me, a film like ...  

Terence Davies - filmography


  • Of Time And The City on DVD (2008)
    Director: Terence Davies
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Of Time and the City is both a love song and eulogy to the director's birthplace - Liverpool. It is also a response to memory, reflection and the experience of losing a sense of place as skylines change and time takes its toll.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,517 member
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  • The Neon Bible (1996)
    Starring: Gena Rowlands,  Denis Leary,  Diana Scarwid
    Director: Terence Davies
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    THE NEON BIBLE, writer-director Terence Davies first literary adaptation, is based on John Kennedy Toole's coming of age story set in the 1930s and 1940s Bible belt. Similar to Davies's autobiographical TRILOGY, the film is a series of remembrances by 15-year old David (Jacob Tierney), who reflects ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 36% from 3 members
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  • The Terence Davies Trilogy on DVD
    Starring: Wilfred Brambell
    Director: Terence Davies
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    British writer-director Terence Davies's (DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES) earliest films, shown together as a trilogy, are interwoven semi-autobiographical short films about one man's painful conflict between his homosexuality and religion. CHILDREN (1976) introduces Robert Tucker (played by several ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 282 members
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Terence Davies - watch online


  • Distant Voices Still Lives to Watch Now (1988)
    Starring: Pete Postlethwaite,  Lorraine Ashbourne,  Jean Boht
    Director: Terence Davies
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 85 minutes
    Winner of the International Critics' Prize, Cannes 1988 Terence Davies's stunning debut feature film Distant Voices, Still Lives was instantly recognized as a masterpiece on its release in 1988 and the director hailed as one of Britain's most gifted and remarkable filmmakers. Re-released in April ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 24 members
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Terence Davies facts

5 most recent films

Of Time And The City - 3.5 stars
The House Of Mirth - 3.0 stars
The Neon Bible - 2.0 stars
The Long Day Closes - 3.5 stars
Distant Voices, Still Lives - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Long Day Closes - 3.5 stars
The Terence Davies Trilogy - 3.5 stars
Distant Voices, Still Lives - 3.5 stars
Of Time And The City - 3.5 stars
The House Of Mirth - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Neon Bible - 2.0 stars
The House Of Mirth - 3.0 stars
Of Time And The City - 3.5 stars
Distant Voices, Still Lives - 3.5 stars
The Terence Davies Trilogy - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Terry O'Sullivan - 3 times - show films
Wilfrid Brambell - 3 times - show films
Sheila Raynor - 3 times - show films
Lorraine Ashbourne - 2 times - show films
Sally Davies - 2 times - show films