Distant Voices, Still Lives (BFI Film Classics)

by Paul Farley

BFI Modern Classics

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Set in 'a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles', Terence Davies' film 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-war working-class childhood. Paul Farley's study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies' unique visual style, blending the spaces - the 'short halls, stairways, coal cellars and meter cupboards of northern England' - and sounds - the BBC shipping show more forecast, a pub sing-a-long, the strains of Vaughan Williams and Britten - of memory. show less

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Paul Farley
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Paul Farley is Reader in Poetry at Lancaster University.

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BFI Modern Classics
47 works

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Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
791.4375 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Films; screenplays Two or more films
LCC
PN1997 .D48 .F37 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures Plays, scenarios, etc.
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