Abstract
Commissioned as part of Liverpool’s 800th birthday celebrations in 2007, the British premiere of Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 2008) in the city’s Philharmonic Hall in 2008 was celebrated as a major European Capital of Culture event. Hailed at Cannes as a distinctly ‘Terence Davies’ film, Of Time and the City is a personal triumph for Davies, returning after an eightyear absence from film making to the place of his birth and the memories that inspired his acclaimed semi-autobiographical films Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992). A bitter-sweet love song to his native city composed of 85 per cent archive footage, most of it shot in Liverpool between the 1940s and the early 1970s, Of Time and the City traces the exterior spaces and places of childhood and adolescence evoked but never seen in these earlier films.
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Hallam, J. (2010). ‘City of Change and Challenge’: The Cine-Societies’ Response to the Redevelopment of Liverpool in the 1960s. In: Koeck, R., Roberts, L. (eds) The City and the Moving Image. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299238_5
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