Match Cut Directors Consensus - Terence Davies

[StanleyK]

http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/articles/images/article/Terence_Davies_468a.jpg

Filmography (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0203993/#director)

Rules (http://www.match-cut.org/showpost.php?p=229631&postcount=1)

[Boner M]

10 replies, max.

Distant Voices, Still Lives - 8
The Long Day Closes - 9.5
The House of Mirth - 8.5
Of Time and the City - 8

Got The Neon Bible in my possession, will hopefully watch this week.

[EyesWideOpen]

Of Time and the City - 4

[Raiders]

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) 9.0
The House of Mirth (2000) 9.5

Of Time and the City is available on Netflix Instant Watch and I have The Long Day Closes ready to go for tonight.

[Yxklyx]

The House of Mirth - 8

[Derek]

The Terence Davies Trilogy - 7.0
Distant Voices, Still Lives - 9.5
The Long Day Closes - 7.5
The House of Mirth - 7.0
Of Time and the City - 6.5

I'll try to see The Terence Davies Trilogy this week.

[Qrazy]

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) - 6.5

[Spinal]

I confess I do not know who this is.

[dreamdead]

I confess I do not know who this is.

British gay filmmaker who usually makes intensely personal films about, ostensibly, his family and childhood in the '80s/'90s. His HoM is very much exploring the surfaces and pauses inherent to Wharton's novel. I'll try to see his latest this week.

Distant Voices, Still Lives - 7.5
The House of Mirth - 9
Of Time and the City - 7

[soitgoes...]

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) - 8.5

[kopello]

The House of Mirth - 5

[baby doll]

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) [9]
The Neon Bible (1995) [9]
The House of Mirth (2000) [4]
Of Time and the City (2008) [5]

Distant Voices, Still Lives could go up to a ten when I get around to watching it again.

[MadMan]

I confess I do not know who this is.This has been my reaction to some of the directors selected lately.

[Spinal]

This has been my reaction to some of the directors selected lately.

Lukas Moodysson next week though. That's pretty sweet.

[MadMan]

Well its always good to seek out something new, I guess.

[dmk]

Wow, some of these scores for my favourite film of the decade... :eek:

Distant Voices, Still Lives - 7.5
The Long Day Closes - 8.5
The House of Mirth - 10.0
Of Time and the City - 9.0

[B-side]

Soon.

[thefourthwall]

The House of Mirth - 8.5

[Morris Schæffer]

Well its always good to seek out something new, I guess.

And you really should check out Fucking Åmål!

[Rowland]

Of Time and the City - 4.0

I'd like to see The House of Mirth at least.


Well its always good to seek out something new, I guess.Don't kid yourself. :P

[MadMan]

Of Time and the City - 4.0

I'd like to see The House of Mirth at least.

Don't kid yourself. :POkay.


And you really should check out Fucking Åmål!Will do, eventually.

[Derek]

Updated to include The Terence Davies Trilogy. Breaking it down, I'd give a 6.0 to Part I and 7.5's to Part II and III. The first covers a lot of exposition and territory that's so familiar (strict British secondary school, Catholic upbringing, etc.) and while it contains some flashes of Davies' stylistic flourishes, it's not until the next two parts that he really comes into his own and transforms from kitchen sink realism to a cinema of portraiture. The sense of Catholic guilt, particularly in relation to Tucker's homosexuality, is overwhelming and Davies explores this dichotomy through powerful juxtapositions of church interiors with perverse conversations (the 360-degree pan of the church during the comical phone conversation where Tucker pleads to have his penis tatooed is equally hysterical and unsettling) and fading memories with a now-decaying body that still yearns to fulfill its physical desires. Uneven, but more than worth slogging through Part 1 to some genuinely wonderful sequences in the last two parts, particularly for fans of the director.

[Mysterious Dude]

The Long Day Closes - 6.5

[eternity]

The House of Mirth - 8

[NickGlass]

Distant Voices, Still Lives: 8.0
Of Time and the City: 6.0

[dreamdead]

Of Time and the City has gorgeous moments of intellectual/political musings combined with the images of Liverpool, but at times Davies lets the stream of images continue unabated too often, so that we're left waiting for the next string of ideas to begin. Really fascinating visual critique of the desolation that's befallen Liverpool, though, as the ruinous building indict England's economy there more than any reflective voiceover could do...

[Rowland]

at times Davies lets the stream of images continue unabated too oftenI'd say the entire last two-thirds of the film. The last hour is endless montage of found footage (frequently gorgeous but increasingly tedious for lack of really tangible context or flow) coupled with the occasional snippet of brief, snide commentary. Davies seemed to run out of anything to say after he's done contrasting his personal growth with that of his country's, after which he comes across like a bitter old man commenting on large swathes of footage he has little to reflect or elucidate upon, merely going through the motions that the project dictates. Perhaps I'll respond more favorably to his cantankerous commentary when I'm suffering my own mid-life crisis.

[Boner M]

Shaddup everyone.

[Rowland]

Shaddup everyone.Aw, please don't cry. Eat a french fry.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HWU3wX2cDLQ/R_9pJIKZOxI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/Tjc3lGOTWBg/s400/15_year_old_McDonalds_French_F ry.jpg

[dreamdead]

I'd say the entire last two-thirds of the film. The last hour is endless montage of found footage (frequently gorgeous but increasingly tedious for lack of really tangible context or flow) coupled with the occasional snippet of brief, snide commentary. Davies seemed to run out of anything to say after he's done contrasting his personal growth with that of his country's, after which he comes across like a bitter old man commenting on large swathes of footage he has little to reflect or elucidate upon, merely going through the motions that the project dictates. Perhaps I'll respond more favorably to his cantankerous commentary when I'm suffering my own mid-life crisis.

To be fair, I thought many of the images during the last third had great power, as images of the nuclear family from the 60's and 80's devolve into the more indifferent images of the 00's costume party and its sense of inconsequentiality. Naturally, such an image is constructed and suggestive of Davies's negative thoughts of contemporary society, but the juxtaposition nonetheless works for me. And the final image is a dandy, as fireworks shower the night sky with potential but also with spectacle, a duality that expresses the ambivalence of today's England.

[StanleyK]

Distant Voices, Still Lives - 8

[baby doll]

Aw, please don't cry. Eat a french fry.Don't you mean, 'av a chip, luv?

[StanleyK]

Results:

Distant Voices, Still Lives - 8.150 (10)
The Long Day Closes - 8.000 (4)
The House of Mirth - 7.850 (10)
Of Time and the City - 6.188 (8)

Average: 7.547

Didn't make it:

The Neon Bible - 9.000 (1)
The Terence Davies Trilogy - 7.000 (1)

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