The complete cinemography of late director Terence Davies will be screened for the first time in the United States since Davie’s died in 2023. IndieWire may announce that Museum of the Moving Image Will present a retrospective series entitled “Terence Davies: Time Gift and Time Past”, from September 12 to 21. The screening series was programmed with permission from Terence Davies Estate. Davies d subject at the age of 77.
“Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past” will contain the late English filmmaker Davies’ nine features, many of whom are rare film Press, as well as his trilogy of early short films and other rarely screened shorts.
Cynthia Nixon, who portrayed Emily Dickinson in Davie’s “A Quiet Passion”, will participate in the September 18 show. The opening evening reception will also celebrate the release of Davies’ 1984 novel “Hallelujah Now”, published by Film Desk Books. The highlights also extend from “The House of Mirth”, “The Deep Blue Sea” and “Benediction” shows, as well as the autobiographical “distant voices, still live” and “The long day is closed.”
“When Terence Davies passed away in the fall of 2023, the world lost one of its greatest, most uncompromising film artists,” Four Senior Curator of Film Michael Korey, who also wrote the book “Terence Davies” 2014 for the University of Illinois Press, SA. “Davies invented all his own film language and used sound and image to radically and meaningfully plump the depth of human desire and stranger, as well as the joy of the family, of poetry, music, and of course movies. We invite everyone to join in celebrating life and career for Davies with this complete retrospective to see their films as they were intended.
Davies before told indifire That his 2022 has “Benediction” may be his best movie. “I think” Benediction “is the best thing I’ve done because of the commitment from everyone,” Davies said. “It ceases to be my movie; it will be ours. When they are ready, they are no longer part of me. I never look at them again because you see them so often at the editing. If I want to think about a sequence I can only think about it, because I have seen it so often. It will no longer be part of you, in a strange way.”
Check out the entire program for “Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past”, with languages provided by Momi, below.
“The long day is closed“
Followed by an opening reception celebrating the release of Terence Davie’s novel “Hallelujah now”
Friday 12 September, 19:00
Dir. Terence Davies. 1992, 85 minutes. UK 35mm. With Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont. A portrait of the budding artist as a young boy, told completely from within the child’s mind, “The Long Day Closes” is Davie’s exquisite beautiful work of autobiographical imagination. Davies described this brilliant finale to his bicycle of autobiographical childhood films such as “The story of a paradise that is already lost and will only survive as a memory.” Afraid of enchantment and melancholy, “The long day closes” takes the perspective of silent, lonely eleven years old bid, which after the death of his brutal father enjoys long summer days with his family and countless trips to the cinema. Davies jumps in and out of time and calls memories and dreams in this individual cinematic tapestry.
“Terence Davies trilogy“
Saturday September 13th, 13:30
Dir. Terence Davies. 1976/1980/1983, 96 minutes. UK 35mm. With Wilfrid Brambell, Terry O’Sullivan, Phillip Mawdely. Terence Davie’s first three shorts are among the most completed debut in film history, deeply personal in the theme and with a premature grasp of film grammar. Consisting of “Children” (1976), “Madonna and Child” (1980) and “Death and Transfiguration” (1973), together form nothing less than the complete reach of a man’s earthly existence, which lies in Liverpool of Davie’s youth, which extends over the school days to the nursing home, in strong black white. Davie’s trilogy is bravely to interrogate the psychological effects of growing up (and growing up (and an old) as a gay man in a homophobic society, while inserting aesthetic and emotional foundation for an unmatched horror in the shadows of disillusionment and foreigners, while putting aesthetic and emotional groundwork for an oversight. Previous of home! Home! (2022, 16 minutes.)
“Remove votes, are still alive“
Saturday September 13th, 16:30
Dir. Terence Davies. 1988, 84 minutes. UK 35mm. With Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams, Lorraine Ashbourne. Davies broke through on the international cinema scene after his debut function anesthetized audience at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988. Distributed in two sections, filmed two years intervals, illustrates the film with abstraction, beauty and temporary horror Davie’s memories from his family in the 1950s Liverpool, both before and after the death of his psychotically abusive Posts Post Instead of telling the story of his life in some simple way, Davies moves in and out of time, often with the help of popular songs during the day more than conventional dialogue to tell the story of three siblings whose traumas have left them frozen in time. A movie of pure feeling that at the same time keeps the viewer an analytical removal, this miracle of a movie contains more haunting images in its relatively short time than most movies twice its length.
“Of time and the city“
Sunday 14 September, 13:00
Dir. Terence Davies. 2008, 74 minutes. DCP. Davie’s first film after an eight -year -old Hiatus after “The House of Mirth” was his only functional documentary, an archival but usually personal ruminination in place and time. Autobiographical elements are merged with atmospheric, inevitably haunting images (still and touching) by Liverpool as it changed and mutated over Davie’s life. A typical eclectic soundtrack uses the spinners, The Hollies, Peggy Lee and John Tavener to build unexpected links between pictures that were filmed decades from each other, while Davie’s recitations from TS Eliot “Four Quartets” provide a gripping thread all the time.
“The neon bible ”
Sunday 14 September, 15:00
Dir. Terence Davies. 1995, 91 minutes. Us 16mm. With Gena Rowlands, Jacob Tierney, Diana Scarwod, Denis Leary. Based on John Kennedy Toole’s famous novel for the Depression era, Neon Bible Is Davie’s first American film, but still completely with its nostalgia-suited filmography. David is a young man who grows up in a small southern Bible belt in the 1940s. When his aunt Mae (Rowlands) a former club singer will stay in the boring home he shares with his parents, she will soon become his only companion. This lively woman, with her theatrical past, provides a previously unknown glamor and excitement to David’s world. The charismatic Gena Rowlands provide a perfectly calibrated star quality to Davie’s cordial film and paints a young man’s everyday struggle with light brush strokes of hope and joy.
“Blessing“
Sunday 14 September, 17:30
Dir. Terence Davies. 2021, 137 minutes. UK DCP. With Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, Ben Daniels. In this aching, unorthodox historical drama, Davies tells the story of the pacifist poet and veteran Siegfried Sassoon, whose experiences fight during the First World War forever transformed him. Sassoon is played exquisitely by Lowden and Capaldi in their younger and older incarnations and acts as a smooth surrogate for Davies himself, a figure of rage and huge width whose life and art will represent so much about social reality in British gay life from the twentieth century. “Benediction” is an emotionally overwhelming Requiem that unites Davie’s singular talents for both Noël Coward-Esque Salong-Reartee and a deeper, poetic depiction of trauma, shame and endless hope for salvation. Previous of: “But why?“(2021, 2 minutes.)
“A quiet passion“
With Cynthia Nixon in person
Thursday 18 September, 19:00
Dir. Terence Davies. 2017, 126 minutes. USA/UK DCP. With Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine. In Davie’s glowing and haunting masterpiece, called The Best Movie of 2017 by Reverse shotCynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance like Emily Dickinson. Nixon embodies the poet’s pervasive width, intellectual independence and personal pathos, whose genius was only recognized after her death. Davies evokes Dickinson’s deep connection to his closely composed family with men, more and spiritual beliefs of her time she struggled with and exceeded in her poetry. According to Richard Brody in New Yorker“A silent passion will take his place as one of his finest creations, as one of the great films of the time.” Previous of: “Passing time“(2023, 3 minutes.)
“The house for joy”
Friday 19 September 18:30
Dir. Terence Davies. 2000, 140 minutes. USA/UK 35mm. With Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Anthony Lapaglia, Laura Linney. Davie’s magnificent, faithful adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel is a sumptuous triumph. Its beaten, abused heart belongs to Anderson, who miraculously awakens Wharton’s tragic hero lilj, a social butterfly whose position in the century’s upper class New York City turns out to be uncertain after her financial situations take a trip to the worse and she refuses to compromise with her virtue or her romantic idealism. Davies’s adeptness on verbal wit and aching melancholy is on magnificent viewing all the time The house for joyOne of his biggest films. Anderson’s performance – a study in precisely maintained performances that gradually crumbles – is one of the cinema’s large embodiment of the human toll human virtue takes on the body and the soul.
“The deep blue sea“
Saturday September 20, 18:30
Dir. Terence Davies. 2011, 98 minutes. UK 35mm. With Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale. Named the best film in 2012 of Reverse shotDavies’s lush, accurate and deeply moving adaptation of a Terence Rattigan plays stars Rachel Weisz as Hester Collyer, a woman who abandons her passionless marriage with a rich barrister (beale), into a dry -ridge shop with a worried former Royal Air Force Pilot (Hiddleston), the consequences of which), the consequences of which), consequences Davie’s collaboration with film photographer Florian Hoffmeister infuses London after the Second World War with a Twilight Nostalgic Reverie, and in a performance that received the best actress from the New York movie criticism circle, Weisz gives the nature of Hester an unmatched luminosity, magnetism and emotionel.
“Sunset“
Sunday 21 September, 16:00
Dir. Terence Davies. 2015, 135 minutes. UK DCP. With Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie. A customization of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Classic 1932 Scottish Roman, Sunset Is at once a crucial Davie’s meditation about the family and the past, and his most pictures. The Guthrie family gathers in obedient fear of its furious patriarch (Peter Mullan). His daughter Chris (Agyness deyn), a beautiful and intelligent young woman who is impatient with her village’s roughness, is moved by the arrival of the stylish young Ewan Tavendale (Kevin Guthrie). He gives happiness to her life, just because it is to be disturbed by the Second World War. Sunset is an unforgettable epic of resilience, with an exquisite etched sequence after another.
