Terence Davies Collection (6 Films) - 4-DVD Box Set ( Children / Madonna and Child / Death and Transfiguration / Distant Voices, Still Lives / The Long Day Closes / Of Time and the City )

Terence Davies Collection (6 Films) - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Children / Madonna and Child / Death and Transfiguration / Distant Voices, Still Lives / The Long Day Closes / Of Time and the City
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
British Independent Film Awards
Cannes Film Festival
European Film Awards
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
333 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1976 - 2008 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Terence Davies

Written By:
Terence Davies

Actors:
Phillip Mawdsley ..... Robert Tucker
Nick Stringer ..... Robert's Father
Valerie Lilley ..... Robert's Mother
Robin Hooper ..... Robert
Colin Hignet ..... Bully
Robin Bowen ..... Bully 2
Harry Wright ..... First Teacher
Phillip Joseph ..... Second Teacher
Trevor Eve ..... Man In Shower
Linda Beckett ..... Neighbour
Bill Maxwell ..... Nurse
Elizabeth Estensen ..... Man In Bedroom
Malcolm Hughes ..... Neighbour
Kate Fahy ..... Neighbour
Marjorie Rowlandson
Terry O'Sullivan ..... Robert Tucker (middle-age)
Sheila Raynor ..... Robert's Mother
Paul Barber ..... Man with Tattoo
John Meynell
Brian Ward
Gypsy Dave Cooper
Mark Walton
Mal Jefferson
Lovette Edwards
Rita Thatchery
Eddie Ross
Wilfrid Brambell ..... Robert Tucker (old age)
Iain Munro ..... Robert Tucker - age 8
Jeanne Doree
Chrissy Roberts
Virginia Donovan
Carol Christmas
Angela Rooks
Brian Gilbert
Katherine Schofield
Ron Metcalfe
Lisa Parker
James Wilde
Ron Jones
James Culshaw
Freda Dowie ..... Mother
Pete Postlethwaite ..... Father
Angela Walsh ..... Eileen
Dean Williams ..... Tony
Lorraine Ashbourne ..... Maisie
Sally Davies ..... Eileen as a Child
Nathan Walsh ..... Tony as a Child
Susan Flanagan ..... Maisie as a Child
Michael Starke ..... Dave
Vincent Maguire ..... George
Antonia Mallen ..... Rose
Debi Jones ..... Micky
Chris Darwin ..... Red
Marie Jelliman ..... Jingles
Andrew Schofield ..... Les
Marjorie Yates ..... Mother
Leigh McCormack ..... Bud
Anthony Watson ..... Kevin
Nicholas Lamont ..... John
Ayse Owens ..... Helen
Tina Malone ..... Edna
Jimmy Wilde ..... Curly
Robin Polley ..... Mr. Nicholls
Peter Ivatts ..... Mr. Bushell
Joy Blakeman ..... Frances
Denise Thomas ..... Jean
Patricia Morison ..... Amy
Gavin Mawdsley ..... Billy
Kirk McLaughlin ..... Labourer /
Christ ..... Black Man
Marcus Heath

Synopsis:

THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY (1976-1983) These three semi-autobiographical short films follow the journey of Robert Tucker, first seen as a hangdog child in Children, then as a hollow-eyed middle-aged man in Madonna and Child, and finally as a decrepit old man in Death and Transfiguration. Dreamlike and profoundly moving.
DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES (1988) An impressionistic view of working-class life in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool starring Freda Dowie and Pete Postlethwaite. Through a series of exquisite tableaux Davies creates a deeply affecting photo album of a troubled family wrestling with the complexity of love.
THE LONG DAY CLOSES (1992) Bud's home is happy and safe, but his Catholic school is a harsh world where teachers administer lashings, and he is bullied and friendless. Once again Davies creates a dreamlike montage of memories, using gliding tracking shots and an artful layering of pop songs and religious music.
OF TIME AND THE CITY (2008) Davies revisits the city of his youth in this deeply personal BAFTA-nominated evocation of post-World War II Liverpool. Through the film's patchwork visual poetry, woven entirely from painstakingly researched archival footage, Davies explores an urban landscape that echoes his own troubled past to speak candidly of his childhood experiences.

Considered by many to be Britain's most gifted and remarkable filmmaker, Terence Davies' visually stunning, intensely personal films have impressed audiences the world over and seen him proclaimed by critics as one of contemporary cinema's true poets.
Children (1976)
Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
Madonna and Child (1980)
Robert Tucker, a sorrowful, solitary man, given to bouts of weeping, tries to balance his life caring for his aging mother, his Catholicism, his homosexuality, and his dull job. One night, after his mother has gone to bed, he dons leather and heads for a private club. He telephones a tattoo artist with a special request. He goes to confession, accusing himself of despairing. He cries out during a nightmare, waking his mother. "You're a good boy," she's told him. He prays the Stations of the Cross, and he lives out his own sorrowful mysteries.
Death and Transfiguration (1983)
In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life: he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back...
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, 'Distant Voices', opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning clothes before the photograph of their smiling father (Pete Postlethwaite). Soon after, the family poses in a similar tableau, but for a happier occasion - Eileen's wedding. While relatives sing at her reception, Eileen hysterically grieves for her dad, and recalls happy times of her youth. Tony and Maisie's memories, however, are more troubled. Davies intermingles and contrasts scenes like the family peacefully lighting candles in church with the brutal man beating his wife and terrorizing his young children. In 'Still Lives', set (and filmed) two years later, the siblings are settled in life, but not all happily. For Eileen, relief from her drab existence comes only when singing at the pub. With his skillfully composed frames and evocative use of music in place of dialogue, Davies creates a lovely, affecting photo album of a troubled family wrestling with the complexity of love.
The Long Day Closes (1992)
The Long Day Closes is the story of eleven-year-old "Bud." A sad and lonely boy, Bud struggles through his days. With cinema as his main source of solace, he haunts the local movie-house. All the while, his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the menacing bullies of his school, but Bud is the center of attention both from the camera's angle and from his doting family. With a gray background, the film fuses clips and audio from classic movies into Bud's dreary childhood and brings it to life with an elegance Bach would bring to your home movies. The overall effect is a montage of memory which seems to ignite flashes of recognition in the viewer.
Of Time and the City (2008)
Terence Davies, filmmaker and writer, takes us, sometimes obliquely, to his childhood and youth in Liverpool. He's born Catholic and poor; later he rejects religion. He discovers homo-eroticism, and it's tinged with Catholic guilt. Enjoying pop music gives way to a teenage love of Mahler and Wagner. Using archival footage, we take a ferry to a day on the beach. Postwar prosperity brings some positive change, but its concrete architecture is dispiriting. Contemporary colors and sights of children playing may balance out the presence of unemployment and persistent poverty. Davies' narration is a mix of his own reflections and the poems and prose of others.

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