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A portrait of the budding artist as a young boy, told completely from inside the child’s mind, The Long Day Closes is Terence Davies’s exquisitely beautiful work of autobiographical fantasia. Followed by book event celebrating the reissue of Terence Davies’s novel Hallelujah Now.
Terence Davies’s first three shorts are among the most accomplished debuts in film history, profoundly personal in theme and with a preternatural grasp of cinematic grammar. Consisting of Children (1976), Madonna and Child (1980), and Death and Transfiguration (1973), the films together form nothing less than the complete scope of a man’s earthly existence, set in the Liverpool of Davies’s youth.
Terence Davies broke through on the international cinema scene after his debut feature stunned audiences at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film illustrates with abstraction, beauty, and occasional horror Davies’s memories of his family in 1950s Liverpool.
Davies’s first film after an eight-year hiatus following The House of Mirth was his sole feature documentary, an archival-rich yet typically personal rumination on place and time. Autobiographical elements are fused with evocative, inescapably haunting images (still and moving) of Liverpool as it changed and mutated over Davies's life.
Based on John Kennedy Toole’s celebrated Depression-era novel, The Neon Bible is Davies’s first American film, yet still fully of a piece with his nostalgia-suffused filmography. David is a young man growing up in a small Southern Bible Belt town in the 1940s. When his aunt Mae (Gena Rowlands) a former club singer, comes to stay in the threadbare home he shares with his parents, she soon becomes his sole companion.
In this aching, unorthodox historical drama, Davies tells the story of the pacifist poet and veteran Siegfried Sassoon, whose experiences fighting in the First World War forever transformed him.
In Davies’s incandescent and haunting masterwork, Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson. Nixon embodies the piercing wit, intellectual independence, and personal pathos of the poet, whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. Followed by a conversation with Cynthia Nixon.
Terence Davies’s magnificent, faithful adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel is a sumptuous triumph. Gillian Anderson’s performance is one of the cinema’s great embodiments of the ironic toll human virtue takes on the body and the soul. Introduced by Michael Barker, Co-President of Sony Pictures Classics.
This free screening and artist talk is presented by New York–based video and new media art collective Blockbusters. The works in this program critically examine aesthetic and sociopolitical implications of time-based language and the digital interfaces that mediate and shape experience and identity.
Davies’s lush, meticulous, and deeply moving adaptation of a Terence Rattigan play stars Rachel Weisz as Hester Collyer, a woman who abandons her passionless marriage to a wealthy barrister, entering a torrid affair with a troubled former Royal Air Force pilot, the consequences of which plunge her life into ruin.
An adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic 1932 Scottish novel, Sunset Song is at once a quintessentially Davies meditation on family and the past, and his most pictorially ravishing work.