Terence Davies, C/D. S/D

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Excellen film.

Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 28 July 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link

*Excellent

Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 28 July 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link

I'm watching it again this Saturday night, appropriately sober this time.

calzino, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:53 (seven years ago) link

well maybe not that much, but not shitfaced!

calzino, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link

LOL Cal!

I'm make-believe. (jed_), Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link

Cal's quiet passion.

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 July 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link

four years pass...

New one about Siegfried Sassoon opens on Friday. I'm watching it tonight. Anyone seen it yet?

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link

seven months pass...

Benediction is brilliant. I keep thinking about some of the hilariously vicious and cold dialogue from Novello and that very sad parting of ways when Wilfred Owen is packed off to his death. TD has still got it, man!

calzino, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link

Film of the year imo

عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Monday, 16 January 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link

it really makes you think of regret and seemingly innocuous moments of mild drama in life that haunt you for the rest of your life. It's a great movie.

calzino, Monday, 16 January 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link

like you get a strong sense of that one short moment of mild class condescension towards Owen is something Sassoon regretted for the rest of his life.

calzino, Monday, 16 January 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link

Any film that brings the three of us together.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 January 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link

Davies has become a whiz at showing the passage of time: how it happens without your being aware of it, as the hurts linger.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 January 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link

I’ve somehow studiously avoided Davies all these years, but finally watched Summer Song last week and was hooked. I’ve been baptized, I’ve been baptized.

The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 January 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link

Ahem, Sunset Song

The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 January 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link

Sunset Song got criticised on here because the Auld Lang Syne in it wasn't authentically Scottish enough! I'm not beefing about it, it just amused me at the time.

calzino, Monday, 16 January 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link

People seemed to like it on my Scottish language thread, despite or because of having to read the book in school. Or maybe it’s just the book they liked.

The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 January 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

So why did you go to the Impressionists?
I only did it for the Monet.

after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 February 2023 02:00 (one year ago) link

We’re here to enjoy ourselves. Come on, Micky, give us a song.

Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 February 2023 00:14 (one year ago) link

seven months pass...

Quite lovely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS-boGJ8hd0

peanut filibuster parfait (Eric H.), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link

RIP

Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 October 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link

fun list

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyGrwkrIsTH/

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 7 October 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link

i still think about my favorite professor showing us distant voices, still lives at byu. did he know the queer, closeted kids in the class needed to see it? was he somewhat queer himself? probably a little bit of yes to both. it was all so unspoken though.

ꙮ (map), Saturday, 7 October 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link

Loved this bit from Michael Koresky:

At the conclusion of that deeply nurturing conversation, as I was nervously pressing stop on my audio recorder, Davies then looked up at me with a warm smile and asked, “So… what is your book about?” Concerned and amazed, I responded: “You! The book is about you.” Davies’ face turned red and lit up like a child, delighted but also humbled beyond belief.

“Me?!” It was an expression of unbelievable modesty coming from a man many agree was England’s greatest filmmaker of the last quarter century, but also evidence that Davies, never a commercially successful director in all the boring ways we measure such things, was always on the edge of being forgotten. It’s impossible to imagine, however, that Davies’ cinema will ever be forgotten by anyone who has seen a frame of it; his monumental films held candles as vigils to the form itself, and now without him, we will – we must – keep that flame burning.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/terence-davies-obituary

birdistheword, Sunday, 8 October 2023 05:18 (one year ago) link

MK is living the life I wish I was. He’s the perfect person to pay homage to this particular director

insert nothing here (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 October 2023 06:18 (one year ago) link

I'll watch his last couple of films. Really hope Davies is not forgotten :-(

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 October 2023 08:33 (one year ago) link

My obt for him.

hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 October 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link

So lovely - the Capaldi contribution particularly.

Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link

Yes, that was great, thanks!

Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link

I'm getting the Koresky book from the library, this aspect of the description sounded really intriguing:

focusing on four paradoxes within the director's oeuvre: films that are autobiographical yet fictional; melancholy yet elating; conservative in tone and theme yet radically constructed; and obsessed with the passing of time yet frozen in time and space.

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link

Koresky's good.

hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link

I have a mega critic-crush on him

insert nothing here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link

I don’t know from him, just heard about him now on this thread. His book Films of Endearment has a cheesy title but maybe it’s good?

Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link

I loved it, but as I said above ...

insert nothing here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link

Glancing at it. Looks good. Had a shock for a minute when he said his mother went to Newton High and I misread it as Newtown High.

Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link


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