Distant Voices, Still Lives

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by Paul Farley

Type

Studies

Subject

One Film > Distant Voices Still Lives

Keywords

Terence Davies

Publishing date

2006

Publisher

BFI Publishing

Collection

BFI Modern Classics

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 96 pages
5 ¼ x 7 ¾ inches (13.5 x 19.5 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

1-84457-139-4
978-1-84457-139-0

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Book Presentation:
Set in a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles, Terence Davies's film Distant Voices, Still Lives is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-war working-class childhood. Paul Farley's study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies's unique visual style, blending the spaces – the short halls, stairways, coal cellars and meter cupboards of northern England – and sounds – the BBC shipping forecast, a pub sing-a-long, the strains of Vaughan Williams and Britten – of memory.

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