For the first time ever on DVD from BFI Fellowship Awarded Terence Davies The Terence Davies Trilogy. The Terence Davies Trilogy acts as do his two later films Distant Voices Still Lives and The Long Day Closes as a reconstruction of his childhood and youth in working class post-war Liverpool. In his trilogy he uses alter ego Robert Tucker a shy and introverted child who is assumed to be not as able mentally as his peers and so bullied by those around him. His home life is darkly overshadowed by his violent abusive father and his guilt over homosexual feeling... which is exacerbated by his strict Catholic upbringing. These dark and unhappy memories though are interspersed by his tender and warm feelings towards the entertainment culture springing up around Liverpool listening to the wireless and visiting the cinema being favourite pastimes of his. Davies sticks to his fragmented patchwork narrative to show the nature of his own personal memory interspersed with snatched songs and surreal daydreams and so the audience can emphasise with his every grin and grimace. With Liverpool's City Of Culture recognition The Terence Davies Trilogy becomes ever more important as its appreciation of the pop culture which came out of Liverpool is accredited with Robert's happiness and therefore Terence Davies' and his admission into cinema himself. [show more]
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Three short films by director Terence Davies: 'Children' (1976), 'Madonna and the Child' (1980) and 'Death and Transfiguration' (1983). Taken together, the three films trace the life of Robert Tucker, the director's alter ego, from childhood to the grave.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY Children (1976, 44 mins) | Madonna and Child (1980, 26 mins) | Death and Transfiguration (1983, 24 mins) Films by Terence Davies Before Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes confirmed his status as one of the cinematic masters of our day, these three short early films by Terence Davies reveal a filmmaker of great early promise. In stark black and white, Davies excavates the life of his fictional alter ego, Robert Tucker, in a narrative that slips like a shuffled pack of cards between childhood, middle age and death, shaping the raw materials of his own life into a rich tapestry of experiences and impressions. Over the course of these films, we witness the emergence of Davies singular talent, the refinement of his technique and a director, growing in confidence, soon to become fêted as British cinema's greatest film poet. Special features Full feature commentary by Terence Davies Filmed interview with Terence Davies Fully illustrated booklet including essay by Derek Jarman Fully uncompressed PCM stereo audio UK | 1976 -1983 | black & white | English language with hard-of-hearing subtitles | 94 minutes | DVD-9 | Ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD
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