Terence Davies
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Hester Collyer is the wife of an upper-class judge and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page, a troubled former Royal air force pilot, throws her life in turmoil, as their erotic relationship leaves her emotionally stranded and physically isolated.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. Acclaimed British director Terence Davies (*House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea*) exquisitely evokes Dickinson’s deep attachment to her close knit family along with the manners, mores and spiritual convictions of her time that she struggled with and...
3) Sunset song
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of a Scottish farm girl, Chris, as she searches for her independence against the odds, in an epic rite of passage story set just before the First World War. The war and the struggles Chris endures test her resolve for love and her idyllic country farm life.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Terence Davies lifts viewers up into the world of fantasy and collective emotion as he presents popular and classical music, voices, radio clips, and a powerful poignant voiceover of his birthplace Liverpool. Includes themes such as Catholicism, homosexuality, violence, death, loss, the glory of cinema, outsiderness, and childhood.
Publisher
Arrow Academy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on the director's own family and upbringing, it presents an evocative account of working-class life in Liverpool, England during the 1940s and '50s. Births, marriages and deaths, and an expressive use of music, provide the underpinning for a film that is beautiful, heartbreaking, resonant but never sentimental. Now regarded as a masterpiece of British cinema, and boasting a startling performance from Pete Postlethwaite as the head of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 694
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Bud is a shy, dreamy boy who is adored by his close-knit family but tormented by his stronger schoolmates. It is only in the darkness of the neighborhood movie theatre that Bud feels free, escaping his drab life in the romantic, innocent films of the 1950s.
Series
Criterion collection volume 694
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story of eleven-year-old Bud, a sad and lonely boy who struggles through his days. With cinema as his main source of solace, he haunts the local movie-house. All the while, his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the menacing bullies of his school.
