Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2017. Davies is a master of capturing the details (and the silences) of hard emotion. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There is no money to spend, and precious little sign of a better tomorrow: and yet this family contrives to hang together and to make a new generation of children welcome. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2013. Terence Davies' debut feature is a remarkable evocation of working-class family life in the 40s and 50s and a visionary exploration of memory. He ties the film together with popular music, understanding its powerful role in subconscious of everyday experience. Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2010. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2018 81 mins Director: Salvador Simó.

We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' on each platform. Biopic 2015 106 mins Director: Peter Greenaway. Fancy watching 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' on your TV, phone, or tablet? Terence Davies' debut feature is a remarkable evocation of working-class family life in the 40s and 50s and a visionary exploration of memory. Autobiography as art: the centrepiece of Terence Davies' devastating Liverpool-set Trilogy focuses on his fictional alter-ego in middle age. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. I would rate it 3 stars. The women in the family achieve partial escape from his dominance through the popular songs of the period that punctuate the narrative, provoking the idea of ‘a kind of musical’. PG-13. Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2010. A searing memoir of a childhood in Liverpool in the 40s and 50s. He requires a lot of patience but if you have that, he will generally reward you. We can all relate to having photographs taken, key moments of weddings, funerals, chores we hated doing. The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family.

'Distant Voices, Still Lives' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Tubi, iTunes, Google Play, and YouTube . 1 hr 24 min. Dean Williams. There's no real plot, no real action and no real resolution -- just like life. Karel Zeman's astonishing fantasy mixes live-action and animation to tell the adventures of a ploughman and a mercenery during the Thirty Years War. Femi, a young British boy of Nigerian heritage, has to adapt to the new environment of inner-city London, in this outstanding, BIFA-winning drama from Shola Amoo (A Moving Image). And yet, there is a beauty to it as well. One of the most poignant films about the nature of family and memory I have ever seen. Released September 29th, 1988, 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' stars Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh, Lorraine Ashbourne The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 24 min, and received a user score of 70 (out of 100) on TMDb, which put together reviews from 61 well-known users. Indeed I think the comparisons with the films of Powell and Pressburger are well judged, Terence Davies also presents a vanished world, albeit a slightly less distant one. Stream & Watch Online Powered by JustWatch Memory given cinematic form - a great achievement, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2008. There is nothing else that even comes close. The first part of Terence Davies' formidable Trilogy explores the effects of violence on a Liverpool schoolboy, told in a series of flashbacks. Pure genius. I am a great admirer of the work of Terence Davies and the way he encapsulates the mood of this film by use of appropiate characters is truly amazing.

Animation & Artists Moving Image 1961 85 mins Director: Karel Zeman. This is a beautiful film about memory, constructed around the life of a working class family in Britain in the 1940s and 50s. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Select the department you want to search in. Documentary 2008 74 mins Director: Terence Davies, Brilliantly mixing archive film and music, Liverpool-born director Terence Davies reflects with wit and wisdom on a times of change, for good or ill, Drama 2015 83 mins Director: Jane Gull. Absolutely superb. Biopic 2017 116 mins Director: Dome Karukoski. A young man with Down's syndrome is forced into care after his mother dies, in this sensitive, poignant and naturalistic drama. Drama 2015 128 mins Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Video availability outside of United States varies.

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2019, Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2014. Sign in to see videos available to you. He reminds me in this way of Terrence Malick. 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, and Tubi . It is only later in life do we come to remember specific moments and Terence Davies never fails in which ones they are. Davies is not a director for everyone. This is a dirty working class milieu where the chief threat is a violent father, the chief solace a loving mother and the principle entertainment family and friends having a sing-along in the pub. The tragic story of the beautiful daughter of a middle-class refugee f... Set in Kensington, a working-class district of Liverpool, England in m... "Miss World 1970: The launch of a revolution", "If it chooses you, nothing can save you. Quickly browse titles in our catalog based on the ones you have picked. There's a problem loading this menu right now.

Curious to know what the movie's about? It's the small details that bring a lump to the throat and a tear to the eye - the mother sat on the window ledge to clean the sash windows, the Billy Cotton Band Show on the radio, the cinema thick with cigarette smoke - details of a recent past that is now as confined to history as the Crusaders or Roundheads and Cavaliers. Drama 1980 28 mins Director: Terence Davies. Drama 1976 46 mins Director: Terence Davies. He reminds me in this way of Terrence Malick. Thriller 2013 112 mins Director: Daniel Wolfe.

Pete Postlethwaite. I haven't seen Terence Davies's other films but this is undoubtedly a great achievement - and one which, seen again after a gap of fifteen years, feels even more poignant. © 2020 British Film Institute. On a Tuscan break a fortysomething woman finds herself drawn to the company of a group of partying teens, including a young Tom Hiddleston (in one of his earliest roles).

", "The Helen Reddy story and the song that inspired a revolution", 'Shithouse' Interviews with Cooper Raiff & Jay Duplass. Davies is an artist with a viewpoint and perfect understanding of his craft. Here's the plot: "The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series (along with "Trilogy" and "The Long Day Closes") is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. I actually would rate the Distant Voices section of this film 5 stars.

Written for Channel 4 by radical literary theorist Terry Eagleton and directed by Derek Jarman, Wittgenstein is a bold, offbeat biography, exploring the politics and sexuality of the great, troubled philosopher. One of Britain’s most inventive filmmakers, Peter Greenaway, tackles the story of arguably the most influential filmmaker in cinema history, Sergei Eisenstein. No one should watch it who doesn't have a lot of patience for the small beauty and poignancy of life. See Help for more information. I actually would rate the Distant Voices section of this film 5 stars. He is describing a life in Liverpool, very like his own, before the Beatles, before rock n roll. Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2017. Lorraine Ashbourne. iPhone and iPad users: You will need to download app version 3.0 to watch BFI London Film Festival titles. But a 3 star movie by Davies still has its rewards. The pop-surrealist road movie starring the Pet Shop Boys, finally available for the first time in the digital era. The Terence Davies Trilogy reaches its astonishing climax as tortured Liverpool clerk Robert Tucker prepares to meet his maker. Drama 2007 97 mins Director: Naomi Kawase. This is one of the most beautiful and affecting movies I've ever seen. If you understand what you're getting into, it'll be one of the most rewarding film experiences you will ever have. Subscribe to watch - 14-day free trial, then £4.99 a month. This is vivid, uncomfortable and heartbreaking in equal measure. Biopic 1993 72 mins Director: Derek Jarman.