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Of Time and the City is a 2008 British documentary collage film directed by Terence Davies. The film has Davies recalling his life growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s, using newsreel and documentary footage supplemented by his own commentary voiceover and contemporaneous and classical music soundtracks.
Of Time and the City: Directed by Terence Davies. With Terence Davies, George Harrison, Jack Hawkins, John Lennon. A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.
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- Documentary, Biography
- Terence Davies
- 2008-10-31
Of Time and the City (2008) - trailer. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI.Terence Davies passionate and poetic documentary on his native Liverpool wa...
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Jun 17, 2008 · Of Time and the City is a very personal portrait of Liverpool, beyond its Beatles and its football clubs, the home of the writer's birth, where youth and inspiration weave his own...
Terence Davies (1945- ), filmmaker and writer, takes us, sometimes obliquely, to his childhood and youth in Liverpool. He's born Catholic and poor; later he rejects religion. He discovers homo-eroticism, and it's tinged with Catholic guilt.
Jun 17, 2009 · These memories are mixed with those of the city, suggested with remarkable archival footage collated from a century: crowds in the streets and at the beach, factories, shipyards, faces, movie theaters, snatches of song, long-gone voices, an evocation of a city tuned in to the BBC for the Grand National, a long-gone horse and rider ...
Oct 31, 2008 · Using a plethora of archive material it illustrates just how this city was affected after the devastation of WWII followed by decades of stagnant, socialist-leaning, civic administration that presided over the relentless decline of a city that is populated by sparky and stoic individual...
