Terence Davies: Cinema, Memory, Emotion

August 19–27, 2017

We celebrate the release of the British writer-director's latest film, a biography of Emily Dickinson, with a selection of his beautifully nuanced works.

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  • A Quiet Passion

  • Distant Voices, Still Lives

  • The Long Day Closes

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Past Films

  • A Quiet Passion

    • Saturday, August 19 6 PM
    • Wednesday, August 23 7 PM
    • Sunday, August 27 Cancelled
    Terence Davies
    United Kingdom, 2016

    Cynthia Nixon portrays the poet Emily Dickinson in this “absolute drop-dead masterwork” (Richard Brody) that imbues the structure of the biopic with the elliptical intensity of poetry.

  • The Long Day Closes

    • Saturday, August 26 6:30 PM
    Terence Davies
    United Kingdom, 1992

    Depicting a cinephilic childhood in 1950s England, Davies paints a world of music, shadows, and light. “A marriage of individual and collective memory consecrated by the movies” (Village Voice).

  • Of Time and the City

    • Friday, August 25 7 PM
    Terence Davies
    United Kingdom, 2008

    Davies’s lyrical cine-poem about his hometown of Liverpool, as well as Catholicism, homosexuality, violence, death, loss, childhood, and the glory of cinema. “Mesmerizing and eloquent” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).

  • Distant Voices, Still Lives

    • Sunday, August 20 5 PM
    Terence Davies
    United Kingdom, 1988

    Davies mines family memories, both painful and bittersweet, for an elliptical, luminous, and moving portrait of working-class life in midcentury Liverpool. “Becomes its own kind of poetry: taut, referential, inward, brilliant” (Los Angeles Times).