Terence Davies

Terence Davies

Born: November 10, 1945
Died: October 7, 2023
in Liverpool, England, UK
Terence Davies (10 November 1945 — 7 October 2023) was an English writer-director and former novelist. As a filmmaker, Davies is noted for his recurring themes of emotional (and sometimes physical) endurance, the influence of memory on everyday life and the potentially crippling effects of dogmatic religiosity on the emotional life of individuals and societies. Stylistically, Davies' works are notable for their symmetrical compositions, "symphonic" structure and measured pace.

Movies for Terence Davies...

Passing Time
Title: Passing Time
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 10, 2023
Type: Movie
For the unique 2x25 project, the Film Fest Gent asked 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made a short film. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture. "Passing Time" began with Uruguayan composer Florencia Di Concilio's music and was completed with Terence Davies' reading of his own poem about his late sister, delivered over a single serene shot of the countryside near his home in Essex.
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Title: Reel Britannia
Character: Self - Producer - Writer
Released: June 9, 2022
Type: TV
Comedian 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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But Why?
Title: But Why?
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 25, 2021
Type: Movie
An 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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Investigating the Ladykillers
Title: Investigating the Ladykillers
Released: November 9, 2020
Type: Movie
Program 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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Title: The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2011
Type: TV
A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.
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Of Time and the City
Title: Of Time and the City
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 31, 2008
Type: Movie
British director Terence Davies reflects on his birthplace of Liverpool - his memories of growing up there and how it has changed in the years since - in the process meditating on the internal struggles and conflicts that have wracked him throughout his life and the history of England during the second half of the 20th century.
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Doris Day: Virgin Territory
Title: Doris Day: Virgin Territory
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2007
Type: Movie
Doris 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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Title: Legends
Character: Self
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: TV
The 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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The South Bank Show: Terence Davies
Title: The South Bank Show: Terence Davies
Character: Interviewee
Released: April 5, 1992
Type: Movie
Television documentary about British film director Terence Davies and his film "The Long Day Closes."
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Title: Lillie
Released: September 24, 1978
Type: TV
The 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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Title: Anna Karenina
Released: September 25, 1977
Type: TV
Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.
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Title: Survivors
Character: Harper
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: TV
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.