Terence Davies: Cinema, Memory, Emotion
August 19–27, 2017
We celebrate the release of the British writer-director's latest film, a biography of Emily Dickinson, with a selection of his beautifully nuanced works.
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A Quiet Passion
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
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The Long Day Closes
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Films - Past
Films - Past
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Past Films
A Quiet Passion
Terence Davies
United Kingdom, 2016Saturday, August 19 6 PMView DetailsCynthia Nixon portrays the poet Emily Dickinson in this “absolute drop-dead masterwork” (Richard Brody) that imbues the structure of the biopic with the elliptical intensity of poetry.
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Terence Davies
United Kingdom, 1988Sunday, August 20 5 PMView DetailsDavies mines family memories, both painful and bittersweet, for an elliptical, luminous, and moving portrait of working-class life in midcentury Liverpool. “Becomes its own kind of poetry: taut, referential, inward, brilliant” (Los Angeles Times).
A Quiet Passion
Terence Davies
United Kingdom, 2016Wednesday, August 23 7 PMView DetailsCynthia Nixon portrays the poet Emily Dickinson in this “absolute drop-dead masterwork” (Richard Brody) that imbues the structure of the biopic with the elliptical intensity of poetry.
Of Time and the City
Terence Davies
United Kingdom, 2008Friday, August 25 7 PMView DetailsDavies’s lyrical cine-poem about his hometown of Liverpool, as well as Catholicism, homosexuality, violence, death, loss, childhood, and the glory of cinema. “Mesmerizing and eloquent” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
The Long Day Closes
Terence Davies
United Kingdom, 1992Saturday, August 26 6:30 PMView DetailsDepicting a cinephilic childhood in 1950s England, Davies paints a world of music, shadows, and light. “A marriage of individual and collective memory consecrated by the movies” (Village Voice).
A Quiet Passion
Terence Davies
United Kingdom, 2016Sunday, August 27 CancelledView DetailsCynthia Nixon portrays the poet Emily Dickinson in this “absolute drop-dead masterwork” (Richard Brody) that imbues the structure of the biopic with the elliptical intensity of poetry.