Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past

When Terence Davies passed away in the fall of 2023, the world lost one of its greatest, most uncompromising cinematic artists. The British director all but invented his own film language, using sound and image to radically and meaningfully plumb the depths of human desire and alienation, as well as the joys of family, of poetry, of music, and, of course, movies. From the unfathomably moving, aesthetically revelatory autobiographical masterworks Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, which transformed his memories of growing up in working-class Liverpool into nonlinear dreams that collapsed past and present, to his brilliant adaptations of classic novels (The House of Mirth, Sunset Song) to his galvanizing portrayals of poets Emily Dickinson and Siegfried Sassoon, Davies created movies as a true artist should, using the form for self-expression and as a means of working through complicated emotions: of wrestling with faith, with his homosexuality, with his familial traumas. Davies made every single moment of every film count, and his work always reflected his true self with honesty, courage, and visual command.  

Join us in celebrating the life and career of Terence Davies with this complete retrospective, the first in the U.S. since his death.