Of Time and the City
30th April 2009
UK 2008.
Cert.12a. 73mins.
Director: Terence Davies.
SPONSOR: The Lincoln Academy
NOTE: This film is showing at the University of Lincoln in the Architecture building, Room AR0107 at 7.30pm. Entry is free.
Venue map (PDF)
This archive footage documentary on Liverpool's past and present forms
an affectionate eulogy of the director to his home city. With a narration by
Davies himself and an eclectic choice of music, 'Of Time and the City' is a
feast of nostalgia and poetic realism.
Related films previously shown by the society, (these links will open a new window)
Directed by Terence Davies :
2001 - The House of Mirth
1989 - Distant Voices, Still Lives
Terence Davies "has successfully constructed an outstanding work about the hometown he may have
left behind but has clearly not ceased to haunt him."
Howard Feinstein, Screen International.
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