Terence Davies

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Cannibals! Crying! Carrots! The best movie moments of 2022
From Elvis to Eo, Guardian writers have picked their most indelible scenes from this year’s big screen line-up

Veronica Esposito, Jesse Hassenger, Benjamin Lee, Radheyan Simonpillai, Guy Lodge, Lisa Wong Macabasco, Lauren Mechling, Scott Tobias, Adrian Horton, Catherine Shoard, Andrew Lawrence and Andrew Pulver

24, Dec, 2022 @7:04 AM

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‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute
He was the explosively talented film-maker who changed cinema for all time. But what did other directing giants make of this movie legend – and did they find his latter films unwatchable?

14, Sep, 2022 @1:44 PM

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The best films of 2022 so far
Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s films

Guardian film

09, Jun, 2022 @6:03 AM

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Terence Davies on sex, death and Benediction
As his Siegfried Sassoon biopic is released, the director opens up about his ill-fated straight romance, being snubbed by Bafta and how it felt to sleep in the bed where his father died

Ryan Gilbey

20, May, 2022 @5:00 AM

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Benediction review – Terence Davies’ piercingly sad Siegfried Sassoon drama
The tragic life of the poet and soldier is revisited with melancholy and theatricality in a bleak, and often hard to watch, biopic

Peter Bradshaw

12, Sep, 2021 @8:30 PM

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'Two boys snogging was revolutionary': the greatest gay moments in cinema
From Gus Van Sant to Maryam Keshavarz, Terence Davies to Andrew Haigh, film-makers and writers recall the charged scenes that moved and inspired them – and even helped nudge them out of the closet

Catherine Shoard

17, Mar, 2021 @8:00 AM

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The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

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What to see this week in the UK
From Cold War to Barry Manilow, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days

Damon Wise, Michael Cragg, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Mark Cook and Judith Mackrell

31, Aug, 2018 @8:00 AM

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Distant Voices, Still Lives review – vividly present autobiographical masterpiece
Pete Postlethwaite and Freda Dowie shine in Terence Davies’s remarkable 1988 portrait of a working-class Liverpool family that is as gripping as any thriller

Peter Bradshaw

30, Aug, 2018 @1:38 PM

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The best films of 2017 so far
La La Land and The Love Witch wove magic, Moonlight and Lion wrung out tears, while Get Out and Lady Macbeth got nasty. Plus, there were striking debuts, returns to form by seasoned directors and reunions for the Trainspotting rogues

Gwilym Mumford and Andrew Pulver

07, Feb, 2018 @12:35 PM

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A Quiet Passion review – profound, painful Emily Dickinson biopic
Terence Davies’s film follows the American poet’s descent from wisecracking repartee to isolated creative rigour

Simran Hans

09, Apr, 2017 @7:00 AM

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A Quiet Passion review – Cynthia Nixon gives Emily Dickinson the soul of a poet
Terence Davies’s elegant film benefits from a terrific performance by Nixon, who makes the reclusive 19th-century poet seem radiant with loneliness

Peter Bradshaw

06, Apr, 2017 @2:30 PM

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