"Of Time and the City" is about filmmaker Terence Davies' past as well as Liverpool's past.
DVD Release Date: May 12, 2009
Stats: 118 reviews
Davies' essay film on his hometown is like a more bitter My Winnipeg. Using a lot of archive footage and ironic use of pop songs he illustrates his childhood's joys and pains such as his love of Hollywood and his burdened homosexuality repressed by his Catholic upbringing. His fe...( read more)
"Of Time and the City" is more of a collage than a film. By assembling archival footage and photographs, filmmaker Terence Davies weaves together a memoir of growing up in post World War II Liverpool. There's no narrative structure or driving force to the film, it's instead a bit...( read more)
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The best poetic Merseyside I have ever seen. Liverpudlian filmmaker Terence Davies trawls the archives and his own memories to deliver a heartfelt ''visual poem'' about his ever-changing hometown. Sharpening the nostalgia with wit and honesty...( read more)
Didn't focus on the narration much, just let it wash over me. Davies has a good voice but I found his dense prose hard to deal with, and the images and scrapbook video footage not particularly impressive.
WEB. Más una intención que un resultado. No está mal, pero su estructura es demasiado repetitiva y su tono, monótono. Tiene momentos inspirados, pero como un todo, se queda a mitad. / More an intention than a result. It's not bad, but its structure is too repetitive and its tone,...( read more)
I nearly turned off ten minutes into this, finding it slow and the narrator a little self-important, but it grew on me. If you're the kind of person who likes old news reels, and black-and-white footage , watch this. Only an hour long.
Excellent narration! Grand cinematography! Very much a film of artistic methods.
Paste a bunch of old newsreels together, throw some haughty narration on top of it every minute or two, and call it an arty film. Pass.
British filmmaker Terence Davies pays homage to the city of his birth in this visual essay on the seaside town of Liverpool. Described by Davies as "a love song and a eulogy," Of Time and the City uses vintage home movies and newsreel footage to paint a portrait of the Liverpool ...( read more)
Of Time and The City should inspire moviegoers to pursue full recognition of their cultural experience. Davies doesn't detach art from life; he knows it's the key to what makes us citizens and humans. full review
The documentary Of Time and the City looks at the pains and pleasures of growing up Roman Catholic and gay in postwar Britain. full review
It all works. It all stirs, provokes and bewitches. This is a film of love, passion and indignation, full of startling beauties. full review
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