Of Time and the City
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- Synopsis
- British filmmaker Terence Davies pays homage to the city of his birth in this visual essay on the seaside town of Liverpool. Described by Davies as "a love song and a eulogy," Of Time and the City uses vintage home movies and newsreel footage to ......
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- Director(s)
- Terence Davies
- Distributor(s)
- Strand
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 77 min.
Critic Reviews
''Documentary'' is too impersonal a word and ''visual poem'' is too mushy a phrase to describe Of Time and the City, a short, beautiful, characteristically sublime memory piece by the great British auteur Terence Davies.Read the full review
It is a deeply personal piece of art that never descends into the confessional or the therapeutic, and a work of social and literary criticism that never lectures or hectors, but rather, with melancholy, tenderness and wit, manages to sing.Read the full review
Poetically composed, with marvelous lumps of wit and perspective, Of Times and The City is a masterwork.Read the full review
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'Time And The City' a visual poem
01/30/09 Of Time And The City is a love letter from filmmaker Terence Davies to Liverpool, the city where he grew up. | JAM! Showbiz
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