The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
When he wrote Nightingales, which drew on his experiences as a nightwatchman at the Birmingham NEC, Paul Makin displayed an inventive mind that made his best work stand out from other, run-of-the-mill sitcoms.
The blog TV & Radio (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Handed the controls of Sky Arts for an evening, what do Andy Burnham's choices tell us about our culture secretary?
Out 1 (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Apparently it is Terence Davies day at Out 1. Hearing about the release of The Long Day Closes on DVD made me remember to search for his latest film, and voila! The trailer for his latest work, Of Time and The City (mentioned in the previous post), is available on YouTube. Shame on me for not finding it sooner! I don't know much about Liverpool, but this really looks lovely. Below the trailer is an...
Out 1 (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Great news tonight that Terence Davies' masterpiece The Long Day Closes is being released on DVD. I was literally preparing a post to use The Long Day Closes as a Forgotten VHS entry and discovered that the film is soon to be released, albeit a Region 2 disc, which I know does not work for everyone. (Why don't you all have region free players yet!?) His latest film, Of Time and The City , was a well...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
As much as I love the Sundance Film Festival, it does only come once a year. As a perfect compliment to that fest, the Toronto International Film Festival takes place every September and is just as fun and exciting of a festival. This marks their 32nd year and promises to be one of the best [...]
TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The Toronto International Film Festival made way for some Cannes heavyweights Thursday, unveiling Special Presentation slots for Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner "The Class" and Matteo Garrone's Grand Prix winner "Gomorrah" among a group of about two dozen North American premieres. Arnaud Desplechin's "Un conte de Noel" and Canadian helmer Atom Egoyan's "Adoration" -- both Cannes Competition titles...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
News: BFI have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of The Long Day Closes on 28th July 2008 priced at £19.99. Following his prize-winning debut feature film Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), in 1992 Terence Davies made The Long Day Closes, now released...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
News: BFI have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of The Terence Davies Trilogy on 28th July 2008 priced at £19.99. While at Coventry Drama School in the early 1970s, Terence Davies wrote the script for Children which he directed in 1976. He subsequent...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
DVD Video Review: Bill Douglas's three films about his childhood and adolescence form one of the great British films of the last forty years. Gary Couzens reviews the BFI's two-disc DVD set.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Film News: British director given retrospective -- Following a well-received Cannes out-of-competition outing for his latest film, “Of Time and the City,” Brit director Terence Davies will continue his return to the film festival limelight with a career retrospective tribute at September’s 56th San Sebastian Film Festival.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
The online sample from Sight & Sound's Cannes package in the new issue comes from Nick James: "Instead of the flop romcoms and hopeless gangster films that were loudly boosted in the markets (having failed to be selected by...
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Interviewing a director from the UK on Wednesday, I was told my Terence Davies impression was good. Until that moment, I didn't know I had a Terence Davies impression, which hadn't done him much good all century, at least until Of Time and The City . It's been that kind of week. If you're in Chicago, please consider visiting my latest show of photography. If you can't, there'll be an online version...
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
LIVERPOOL-BORN director Terence Davies’s film, Of Time And the City, will have its British premiere at the Philharmonic Hall on Thursday, October 9.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
LIVERPOOL-BORN director Terence Davies’s film, Of Time And the City, will have its British premiere at the Philharmonic Hall on Thursday, October 9.
