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  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 14 m

Summary From the original voice of the great British auteur, Terence Davies, comes a visual poem which draws upon the first 28 years of the director's life in Liverpool until he left in 1973. "Cut it as if it were fiction," Davies says, with "images which speak" and a layered sound track of popular and classical music, voices, radio clips and a ...

Directed By: Terence Davies

Written By: Terence Davies

  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 14 m

Of Time and the City

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
81
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary From the original voice of the great British auteur, Terence Davies, comes a visual poem which draws upon the first 28 years of the director's life in Liverpool until he left in 1973. "Cut it as if it were fiction," Davies says, with "images which speak" and a layered sound track of popular and classical music, voices, radio clips and a ...

Directed By: Terence Davies

Written By: Terence Davies

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
81
89% Positive
8 Reviews
11% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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100
''Documentary'' is too impersonal a word and ''visual poem'' is too mushy a phrase to describe Of Time and the City, a short, beautiful, characteristically sublime memory piece by the great British auteur Terence Davies.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
90
Most of all, Davies proves himself to be a poet of the commonplace whose art is the exalting of the everyday. He may rail against "the British genius for creating the dismal," but his own work is anything but.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
90
Poetically composed, with marvelous lumps of wit and perspective, Of Times and The City is a masterwork.
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83
A caustic, witty, regretful elegy for a place so transformed that it's virtually unrecognizable.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
80
Result is by turns moving, droll and charming, and niftily assembled, but not necessarily that profound.
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75
The result is a warm and extremely thoughtful journey, with a deliberately bare-bones narrative.
By Peter Hartlaub FULL REVIEW
50
Terence Davies revisits his youth to decidedly mixed effect.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Hurricane Films, Northwest Vision and Media, Digital Departures, Liverpool Culture Company, BBC Film, The Merseyside Film and Television Fund, Northwest Regional Development Agency, UK Film Council
Release Date Jan 21, 2009
Duration 1 h 14 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.oftimeandthecity.com/
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Thessaloniki Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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