Category Archives: Terence Davies
Living in the past
I asked for, and got, Porcupines by Echo & the Bunnymen and Gustav Mahler’s “Resurrection” symphony, both of which first appeared in my life about 1983; the first via Radio 1, the second thanks to Stephen Sharkey, who had heard … Continue reading
Filed under confession, Gustav Mahler, Liverpool, music, my past, Terence Davies
From Davies to Dracula
To begin with, the tale of Our Lady of the Flowers lulls present time, for the very words the murderer uses are the magic words that equally handsome hoodlums spat out like so many stars, like those extraordinary hoodlums who … Continue reading
Filed under Jean Genet, Terence Davies, writing
Of Time and the City
Went to see Of Time and the City by Terence Davies on Sunday. I never know quite what to make of his films. The first one I saw, Distant Voices, Still Lives, in 1988, I reviewed for the university newspaper. … Continue reading
Filed under confession, film, Gustav Mahler, Liverpool, my past, Terence Davies
