The Return of the Classic Films Obituary Thread

[CBHagman]

50. Director Terence Davies, 77

Read his story:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/08/terence-davies-obituary#:~:text=Terence%20Davies%2C%20who%20has%20died,alongside%20instances%20of%20lacerating%20pain.

Terence Davies, who has died aged 77 after a short illness, transformed his poor and often brutal working-class upbringing in Liverpool into a series of overwhelmingly evocative films.

Moments of transcendent beauty nestled alongside instances of lacerating pain. There was a similar division in Davies himself. Here was a man given to brooding, despair and self-loathing that could be lightened unexpectedly by outbreaks of exuberance or glimmers of camp, waspish wit.

The shorts that made his name, and became known as The Terence Davies Trilogy, followed one character, Robert Tucker, from the schoolyard to the grave. It was to be the only work of his with a contemporary setting. “Being in the past makes me feel safe because I understand that world,” he said.

His IMDB pages:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0203993/