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Reviews

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  Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988

  

  Raktim ☭ ★★★★★ 3

  Vivid, emotionally destructive, and incredibly genuine, Davies's first feature film evokes a working-class Liverpudlian world just years away from The Beatles – the harbingers of modernity. The same narrative disjointment…

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  The Long Day Closes 1992

  

  Raktim ☭ ★★★

  In contrast to Davies's earlier film, which concentrated on an entire community, "The Long Day Closes" focuses on the childhood of Bud, an imaginative, fantasy-prone youngster growing up in 1950s…

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  Sea Countrymen 1955

  

  Raktim ☭ ★★★★ 1

  The water of the Mediterranean must be cold, but De Seta makes the sight of blue water feel like the warmest embrace. He creates an audio-visual orgasm-inducer as the film…

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  The Neon Bible 1995

  

  Raktim ☭ ★★★

  "The Neon Bible," which is set in Georgia, thousands of miles away from familiar Liverpool, is very different from Terence Davies' earlier films. As the movie is neither an autobiographical…

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  Of Time and the City 2008

  

  Raktim ☭ ★★★★

  In "Of Time and the City," Terence Davies' captivating, poignant memoir in which he recounts the legacy of a monochromatic world, his love-hate relation with his hometown is fully revealed.…

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  Golden Parable 1955

  

  Raktim ☭ ★★★

  Vittorio De Seta is a magician who captures history and hearts. There simply is no one like him.

  [B+]

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  Lines of the Hand 2015

  

  Callisto ★★★★

  very cool visuals. wish he could've used more like this

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  The Offence 1973

  

  Rafael Jovine ★★★★

  Action! - Lumet/Pollack: The Fight of the Century

  After failing nearly catastrophically in his first try at psychological horror, Lumet tries again with Sean Connery in the lead. And, while…