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Terence Davies - news / articles

Davies considered quitting moviemaking - 21 November 2011
-Veteran director Terence Davies considered quitting the movie industry in the 2000s after growing "sick of the struggle" when two of his projects collapsed due to lack of funding.-The Brit was working on a drama and a comedy, but the films failed to make it to the big

Terence Davies - what members say

The House Of Mirth review by from Oxon

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 ... Read customer review

Distant Voices, Still Lives review by A customer from London

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. ... Read customer review

The Long Day Closes review by Doctorbas from London

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 ... Read customer review

Terence Davies - filmography

The Deep Blue Sea on DVD (2011)
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale
Director: Terence Davies
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Hester Collyer (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz) leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the beautiful wife of high court judge Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale). To the shock of those around her, she walks out on her marriage to move in with young ex-RAF pilot, Freddie Page (Tom ..read more »

52% from 964 members

The Deep Blue Sea - Blu-ray (2011)
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale
Director: Terence Davies
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Hester Collyer (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz) leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the beautiful wife of high court judge Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale). To the shock of those around her, she walks out on her marriage to move in with young ex-RAF pilot, Freddie Page (Tom ..read more »

50% from 505 members

Of Time And The City on DVD (2008)
Director: Terence Davies
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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.

65% from 2,659 members

The House Of Mirth on DVD (2000)
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eric Stoltz
Director: Terence Davies
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Terence Davies (DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES) triumphs with his sumptuous, painterly adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel, which is set amid the vicious moneyed classes of 1905 New York and features a heartrending, perfectly nuanced performance by Gillian Anderson as doomed heroine Lily Bart. Lily, ..read more »

60% from 2,361 members

The Neon Bible (1996)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Denis Leary, Diana Scarwid
Director: Terence Davies
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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 »

51% from 21 members
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The Long Day Closes on DVD (1992)
Starring: Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, James Wilder
Director: Terence Davies
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The beautiful, multi-layered opening scene of Terence Davies's follow-up to DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES is a perfect illustration of how Davies uses his directorial craft to realise his autobiographical themes. Accompanied by snippets of dialogue from films like THE LADYKILLERS, along with 20th ..read more »

67% from 825 members

Distant Voices, Still Lives on DVD (1988)
Starring: Carl Chase, Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Terence Davies
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The second film in Terence Daviess autobiographical series is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Daviess own family.

66% from 2,292 members

The Terence Davies Trilogy on DVD
Starring: Wilfred Brambell
Director: Terence Davies
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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 »

67% from 407 members

Terence Davies facts

5 most recent films

The Deep Blue Sea - 2.5 stars
The Deep Blue Sea - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Of Time And The City - 3.5 stars
The House Of Mirth - 3.0 stars
The Neon Bible - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Terence Davies Trilogy - 3.5 stars
The Long Day Closes - 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 - 2.5 stars
The Deep Blue Sea - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
The Deep Blue Sea - 2.5 stars
The House Of Mirth - 3.0 stars
Of Time And The City - 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
Chris Darwin - 2 times - show films
Anne Dyson - 2 times - show films