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British film giant
Terrance Davies visits Edge Hill
FRESH from the Berlin Film
Festival, acclaimed British Director Terence Davies will be visiting Edge
Hill University this evening to discuss his film making career, and his most
recent film, A Quiet Passion, which is receiving rave reviews from around
the world.
Liverpool born Terence Davies, lauded as:- 'Britain's greatest living film
maker', has made an outstanding contribution to British cinema and
culture. As well as being a Fellow of the British Film Institute, Terence
was made an Honorary Doctor of Literature at Edge Hill University in 2015.
His most recent film, A Quiet Passion, starring Sex and the City's Cynthia
Nixon, details the life of the renowned American poet, Emily Dickinson. The
New Yorker describes the film as:- "an absolute drop dead masterwork",
with The Guardian giving the film four stars. A Quiet Passion has been
produced by Roy Boulter and Sol Papadopoulos of Liverpool's Hurricane Films.
Terrance will discuss his career with aspiring film makers as part of the
2016 Festival of Ideas, a diverse range of events exploring culture, health
and society. The main theme is Imagining Better; envisioning ways for
communities, arts and healthcare to develop and flourish, even in times of
austerity and inequality.
Terence's most celebrated feature films:- 'Distant Voices',
'Still Lives' from
1988 and 'The Long Day Closes' from 1992 are autobiographical films that draw
on his family experiences of Liverpool in the 1940's and 1950's, which are
rich evocations of working class culture in the post war decades.
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