Topic: Of Time and the City (Liverpool Documentary)

[meady1981]

Apologies if this has been here before.
Just randomly watched this. It's mainly about Terrence Davies and his narration is a little hard to follow in places (for me, anyway) but there's some great old footage of Liverpool and is put together beautifully.


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/j0XCdR9RA_A?fs=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/j0XCdR9RA_A?fs=1</a>

[garcia-alonso]

It was a Capital of Culture project wasn't it?
I really enjoyed it too, much more than Distant Voices, Still Lives which was very hard to watch and quite frankly made me want to slit my wrists.

[gregor]

It's an incredible piece of film making. I saw it in the cinema when it came out and I think that's really where it should be seen, but that's obviously unlikely now. I'd encourage anyone who loves film, the city of Liverpool, or both - to watch it.

[meady1981]

Cinema must have been incredible!

[eAyeAddio]

Apologies if this has been here before.

No apologies necessary, that is a brilliant film which I greatly enjoyed.

Thanks for posting....

[jackh]

It's an incredible piece of film making. I saw it in the cinema when it came out and I think that's really where it should be seen, but that's obviously unlikely now. I'd encourage anyone who loves film, the city of Liverpool, or both - to watch it.

This is where it'd be nice if locals could influence FACT a little on screenings - it'd be nice to campaign on 2/3 films a month...I'm sure it'd pay off for them.

[Robotforaday]

I saw this, and I have to say, I found it a bit tiresome. I just didn't feel the emotional involvement with Terrence Davies' life that I think was needed to in order to make it work.

HOWEVER; a good deal of the footage used in this film comes from the bloody amazing 1959 documentary Morning in the Streets directed by Roy Harris and Denis Mitchell, well worth a look if you've got an hour to spare - it's on the BBC website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/working/189.shtml


I'm not saying Of Time and the City doesn't have beautiful elements - but for me, a lot of that beauty can be sourced to Morning in the Streets.

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

HOWEVER; a good deal of the footage used in this film comes from the bloody amazing 1959 documentary Morning in the Streets directed by Roy Harris and Denis Mitchell, well worth a look if you've got an hour to spare - it's on the BBC website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/working/189.shtml

Thanks for that, just watched it. Enjoyable.

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/places/liverpool/id/1302869/index.html

Some good stuff worth watching on there.

[meady1981]

HOWEVER; a good deal of the footage used in this film comes from the bloody amazing 1959 documentary Morning in the Streets directed by Roy Harris and Denis Mitchell, well worth a look if you've got an hour to spare - it's on the BBC website.

I haven't got an hour to spare but I'm watching this now Absolutely fantastic! I completely get what you mean, this is feels a lot more real.

[meady1981]

Was it common practice to shave your sideys up to your temples in the 50's?

[Stevie-A]

This is not a movie that could have been made about St Helen's.