Terence Davies, C/D. S/D

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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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