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1.Distant Voices, Still Lives [1988] starring: Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams, Lorraine Ashbourne directed by: Terence Davies July 30, 2007
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This WAS my childhood and life as I remembered it. Meeting the family in the pub on a Saturday night and having a good sing song. Pubs closed at l0 o'clock in those days so it was always back to someones house with a crate of ale. Something to get dressed up for on a Saturday night. No juke boxes, no druggies and all the old songs. Still remember lots of the old songs my mother in law used to sing, but if you started singing in the pub these days, they'd only turn to juke box up louder!! No wonder the pubs are losing customers, there's nothing to go out for now, excepted harrassment and druggies. As least in this film they had the wedding breakfast at home - I went to the pictures in the afternoon with my husband because I was only ... Read More:

2.The Long Day Closes [1992] starring: Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, James Wilder directed by: Terence Davies July 28, 2008
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Through the use of music,soundtracks of films,minimal dialogue,imaginative lighting and camerawork,the director Terence Davies recreates the lost world of his childhood in 1950s Liverpool. The film is nostalgic but never sentimental and Davies has the marvelous gift of making the mundane poetic.Quite simply a masterpiece and a film that deserves to be better known. It should be in anybodies 100 best films of all time: it's certainly in mine.

3.The Terence Davies Trilogy [1976] starring: Wilfred Brambell directed by: Terence Davies July 28, 2008
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if film and wonder and reality and fantasy and sadness and humanity and life and death AND (once more) FILM ... interest YOU GET THIS - GO SOMEWHERE DARK and WATCH IT dave

4.The House Of Mirth [2000] starring: Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eric Stoltz, Terry Kinney, Anthony La Paglia directed by: Terence Davies September 17, 2007
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I first watched this film with no idea as to the story, other than what is written on the back of the DVD box. And I am so glad I did. Having now read the novel upon which it is based, I have to admit it is one of the very best adaptations I have ever seen. The music, costumes and script are perfect and the acting superb. Gillian Anderson gives a particularly stunning performance as Lily Bart, the tragic heroine. I have chosen not to give away the plot in the hope you'll take my word and give it a go, but I challenge you not to cry.

5.BFI 75 10 DVD Box Set - European Cinema (Limited to 500 copies - Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) directed by: Robert Bresson, Terence Davies, Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Luis Bunuel September 01, 2008
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Admittedly the BFI have cut corners with this set but what needs to be remembered are the quality of these films.No amount of illumination through sleeve notes etc can replace seeing these films for the first time without the benefit of "spoilers"- that can come later. Partie de Campagne is Renoir's finest moment - a film of exquisite charm; Melville's Le Cercle Rouge is the equal of Le Samourai;Celine and julie is both beautiful and incomprehensible at the same time;Distant Voices,Still Lives is a poem to family in all its guises and The Innocents is the best ghost film ever made bar none. Add Tristana, Les Dames du Bois...etc and you have a delightful set.Play.com and Moviemail have their own"exclusive" BFI boxsets and there are some lovely ... Read More:

6.The House Of Mirth [2000] starring: Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney, Anthony LaPaglia directed by: Terence Davies May 01, 2002
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This film is another masterpiece from Terence Davies. As one would expect from a Davies film, it is visually ravishing, marked by hypnotic dissolves, precise compositions, and elegant, stately camera movements. As one might not expect, it focusses on an upper-class mileu, and is full of dialogue (the characters in Davies' previous films have tended to be somewhat taciturn). It is very moving, and brilliantly acted - with standout performances from Dan Ackroyd, Gillian Anderson, and the sensational Laura Linney. In response to a couple of claims from one of the reviews below: the film did receive a number of awards at a number of film festivals (see IMDB for a breakdown), and also acheived a great deal of critical acclaim (from The Sunday Times, ... Read More:

7.The Neon Bible [1995] starring: Jacob Tierney, Drake Bell, Gena Rowlands, Diana Scarwid, Denis Leary directed by: Terence Davies March 23, 1999
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I loved this throughout. Beautifully filmed with excellent acting. The unbelievably brilliant child actor in the first part of the film plays his part so movingly it would be hard not to shed a few tears. Bullied by his rather macho father he grows close to his glamorous aunt, a former nightclub singer and becomes aware of his feminine side. The whole film is really a study of close family relationships in a harsh environment touched too by events inlcluding the 2nd world war and mental illness.

8.The Neon Bible [1995] starring: Jacob Tierney, Drake Bell, Gena Rowlands, Diana Scarwid, Denis Leary directed by: Terence Davies April 01, 1996
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I loved this throughout. Beautifully filmed with excellent acting. The unbelievably brilliant child actor in the first part of the film plays his part so movingly it would be hard not to shed a few tears. Bullied by his rather macho father he grows close to his glamorous aunt, a former nightclub singer and becomes aware of his feminine side. The whole film is really a study of close family relationships in a harsh environment touched too by events inlcluding the 2nd world war and mental illness.

9.The House Of Mirth [2000] starring: Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eric Stoltz, Terry Kinney, Anthony La Paglia directed by: Terence Davies May 06, 2002
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This is an adaptation of a novel by the American heiress and novelist Edith Wharton. The story is of a young lady in New York just after the end of the Victorian Age (which term is correct here even though the action is all set in the USA); the film ends in 1907. She acts with honour, but her "friends" and family do not and she is gradually reduced to lower and lower levels of employment as her "expectations" of inheritance and marriage fall through one by one. I looked carefully to see where the film was filmed, because some locations looked a bit like Wharton's own country house on the New York State-Massachusetts border (near Lennox), which I visited many years ago (an extraordinary creation, like a French manoir one side and a grander 18th Century French house on the other!). ... Read More:

10.The Long Day Closes [1992] starring: Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont, Ayse Owens directed by: Terence Davies October 11, 1993
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Through the use of music,soundtracks of films,minimal dialogue,imaginative lighting and camerawork,the director Terence Davies recreates the lost world of his childhood in 1950s Liverpool. The film is nostalgic but never sentimental and Davies has the marvelous gift of making the mundane poetic.Quite simply a masterpiece and a film that deserves to be better known. It should be in anybodys 100 best films of all time: it's certainly in mine.

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