Three by Terence Davies
The dearly departed Terence Davies, who left us in 2023, spent a career making incandescent masterpieces such as "Distant Voices, Still Lives" (1988), "The Long Day Closes" (1992), and "The Deep Blue Sea" (2011), films that took his memories of post-war Britain and transformed them into works of staggering tenderness, heartbreak, and longing. Yet as this series ably suggests, he was also a keen chronicler of the new colony, adapting Edith Wharton (2000’s "The House of Mirth"), crafting a lyrical portrait of the poet Emily Dickinson (2016’s "A Quiet Passion"), and taking on John Kennedy Toole’s Georgia-set coming-of- age novel "The Neon Bible" (1995), alongside his fellow traveler of the emotions, Gena Rowlands.
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The Deep Blue Sea
Directed by Terence Davies | 99 mins | 2011
In a tour de force performance, Rachel Weisz plays a woman brought to breaking point after shunning her husband, a High Court judge (Simon Russell Beale), in order to pursue a passionate affair with a dashing but troubled former RAF pilot (Tom Hiddlesto... -
A Quiet Passion
Directed by Terence Davies | 125 mins | 2016
Emily Dickinson’s particular combination of intense brilliance and private, suppressed desires make her an ideal subject for the cinema of Terence Davies. Here, the atmosphere in the Dickinson family home is at first leavened by piquant but convivial r... -
The Neon Bible
Directed by Terence Davies | 92 mins | 1995
Based on John Kennedy Toole’s Southern Gothic Bildungsroman, Terence Davies’ third feature is both his first adaptation and his first set outside England, but feels just as steeped in heady memory as his earlier works. His vision of 1940s rural Georgia ...
