But Why?
Aug 25, 2021An elegy to time and life, condensing Terence Davies' profoundly humane poetics into little more than one minute, enveloping the viewer in an atmosphere of light and (Davies’ own) words.
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Of Time and the City
Oct 31, 2008Un film documentaire ? Un essai ? Un pamphlet ? Un poème ? Une confession ? Une rêverie ? Un testament ? Of Time and the City, que Terence Davies signe en 2008, année où la ville de Liverpool est « capitale européenne de la culture », est tout cela à la fois. De fait l'œuvre du cinéaste est largement autobiographique et Liverpool, sa ville natale, y occupe une place centrale. On n'a pas oublié Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) et The Long Day Closes (1991), les deux longs-métrages qu'il a consacrés à sa famille et à son enfance. Davies ne manque pas d'évoquer également sa douloureuse expérience de la religion catholique et son rejet d'une foi qui fut celle de l'enfance.
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Passing Time
Oct 10, 2023From the music of Uruguayan composer Florencia Di Concilio, English filmmaker Terence Davies does a cinematic reading of his own poem about his late sister, delivered over a single serene shot of the countryside near his home in Essex. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.
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The South Bank Show: Terence Davies
Apr 05, 1992Television documentary about British film director Terence Davies and his film "The Long Day Closes."
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Doris Day: Virgin Territory
Sep 11, 2007Doris Day has often been dismissed as an actress and overlooked as a singer, despite career highs such as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk. Covering her early years as a band singer, and her troubled private life, this documentary re-evaluates one of the screen's most enduring legends.
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Investigating the Ladykillers
Nov 09, 2020Program focuses on the lasting appeal and cinematic brilliance of The Ladykillers. Included in it are clips from interviews with broadcaster and author Stuart Maconie, film editor Catherine Shoard, actor and writer Reece Shearsmith, and author Ronald Harwood, amongst others.
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Sunset Song
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Chez les heureux du monde
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
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The Neon Bible
Aug 23, 1995During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
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The Terence Davies Trilogy
Nov 01, 1983During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
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Death and Transfiguration
Jun 22, 1983
Madonna and Child
Nov 01, 1980A middle-aged British man struggles to reconcile his homosexuality and his Catholic upbringing.
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The Terence Davies Trilogy
Nov 01, 1983A middle-aged British man struggles to reconcile his homosexuality and his Catholic upbringing.
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Children
Nov 01, 1976Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
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Une longue journée qui s'achève
May 22, 1992Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
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Une longue journée qui s'achève
May 22, 1992Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
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The Deep Blue Sea
Sep 11, 2011Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
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Passing Time
Oct 10, 2023From the music of Uruguayan composer Florencia Di Concilio, English filmmaker Terence Davies does a cinematic reading of his own poem about his late sister, delivered over a single serene shot of the countryside near his home in Essex. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.
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Passing Time
Oct 10, 2023From the music of Uruguayan composer Florencia Di Concilio, English filmmaker Terence Davies does a cinematic reading of his own poem about his late sister, delivered over a single serene shot of the countryside near his home in Essex. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.
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But Why?
Aug 25, 2021An elegy to time and life, condensing Terence Davies' profoundly humane poetics into little more than one minute, enveloping the viewer in an atmosphere of light and (Davies’ own) words.
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But Why?
Aug 25, 2021An elegy to time and life, condensing Terence Davies' profoundly humane poetics into little more than one minute, enveloping the viewer in an atmosphere of light and (Davies’ own) words.
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The Post Office Girl
Jan 01, 1970Christine looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine join her and her husband in a Swiss Alpine resort. After a dizzying train ride, Christine finds herself at the top of the world, enjoying a life of privilege that she had never imagined. But Christine’s aunt drops her as abruptly as she picked her up, and soon the young woman is back at the provincial post office, consumed with disappointment and bitterness. Then she meets Ferdinand, a wounded but eloquent war veteran who is able to give voice to the disaffection of his generation. Christine’s and Ferdinand’s lives spiral downward, before Ferdinand comes up with a plan which will be either their salvation or their doom.
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The Post Office Girl
Jan 01, 1970Christine looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine join her and her husband in a Swiss Alpine resort. After a dizzying train ride, Christine finds herself at the top of the world, enjoying a life of privilege that she had never imagined. But Christine’s aunt drops her as abruptly as she picked her up, and soon the young woman is back at the provincial post office, consumed with disappointment and bitterness. Then she meets Ferdinand, a wounded but eloquent war veteran who is able to give voice to the disaffection of his generation. Christine’s and Ferdinand’s lives spiral downward, before Ferdinand comes up with a plan which will be either their salvation or their doom.
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Sunset Song
Dec 04, 2015Christine looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine join her and her husband in a Swiss Alpine resort. After a dizzying train ride, Christine finds herself at the top of the world, enjoying a life of privilege that she had never imagined. But Christine’s aunt drops her as abruptly as she picked her up, and soon the young woman is back at the provincial post office, consumed with disappointment and bitterness. Then she meets Ferdinand, a wounded but eloquent war veteran who is able to give voice to the disaffection of his generation. Christine’s and Ferdinand’s lives spiral downward, before Ferdinand comes up with a plan which will be either their salvation or their doom.
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The Neon Bible
Aug 23, 1995During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
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Emily Dickinson : A Quiet Passion
Oct 07, 2016During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
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Emily Dickinson : A Quiet Passion
Oct 07, 2016During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
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Les Carnets de Siegfried
Dec 23, 2021During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
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Dec 23, 2021During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
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Home! Home!
Mar 01, 2024A lyric documentary about home, time, memory and mortality, written by Terence Davies and realised posthumously by the PASSING TIME team, produced for the Centre Pompidou's complete retrospective.
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Children
Nov 01, 1976Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
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The Deep Blue Sea
Sep 11, 2011Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
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Death and Transfiguration
Jun 22, 1983Madonna and Child
Nov 01, 1980A middle-aged British man struggles to reconcile his homosexuality and his Catholic upbringing.
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Home! Home!
Jan 01, 1970Terence Davies died on October 7, 2023, while the Center Pompidou teams were preparing the retrospective of his films. It was decided, with him and his loved ones, that this retrospective would take place. It is therefore a tribute. The Center Pompidou shows and celebrates all of his films, as well as the poetry he wrote throughout his life and which occupies a central place in the short film that the Center Pompidou commissioned from him: “Home! Home! ". Modeled on the short film made for the Ghent festival, “Passing Time”, Terence Davies began to design this film based on his poems. It was made according to his instructions by his artistic assistant. “Where are you?” » is a collection initiated by the Center Pompidou which commissions each guest filmmaker to produce a free-form, homemade film with which they respond to this retrospective, introspective and future-oriented question.
Survivors
Jun 08, 1977Survivors est une série télévisée de fiction post-apocalyptique britannique conçue par Terry Nation et produite par Terence Dudley à la BBC de 1975 à 1977. Elle concerne le sort d'un groupe de personnes qui ont survécu à une peste libérée accidentellement - appelée "The Death " – qui tue presque toute la population humaine de la planète.
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Lillie
Dec 17, 1978The Rise and Fall of a Professional Beauty. It was the affair that shook Victorian society to its core. He was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Follow the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in open defiance of accepted morality imposed by Victorian and Edwardian society.
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Anna Karenina
Nov 27, 1977
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Dec 10, 2011Une visite guidée mondiale des plus grands films jamais réalisés et l'histoire du cinéma international à travers l'histoire de l'innovation cinématographique.
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Legends
Jan 21, 2011The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.
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Reel Britannia
Jun 30, 2022Comedian Nick Helm narrates this bold new documentary series exploring the dramatic history of British cinema. Discover how cinema held a mirror up to society from 1960 through to the 00s.
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