The Long Day Closes (Blu-ray + DVD) PG
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 28, 2014
- Originally Released: 1992
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Leigh McCormack & Marjorie Yates | |
Directed by | Terence Davies | |
Edited by | William Diver | |
Screenwriting by | Terence Davies | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Coulter |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Poetic, almost Proustian... - Recommended
Premiere
[An] exquisite, impressionistic, largely autobiographical reverie ...
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New Yorker
There's no traditional story to speak of here, no dramatic conflict to send the characters off on a goal or motivating action to set a series of events in motion. Rather, Davies offers cinematic snapshots capturing privileged moments...
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Turner Classic Movies Online
Rating: B+ --
Though not as fully realized and touching as the original masterpiece of Distant Voices, the sequel is very much worth seeing.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 4/4 --
The Long Day Closes posits its pubescent protagonist as a tiny camera absorbing and transforming the reality all around him.
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Slant Magazine
...A quirky, captivating book of dreams...
New York Times
...THE LONG DAY CLOSES has the shapeliness and emotional richness of a musical suite....And with its sharply stylized and surreal imagery, it looks the way the past looks in our dreams...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
The beautiful, multi-layered opening scene of Terence Davies's follow-up to DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES is a perfect illustration of how Davies uses his directorial craft to realize his autobiographical themes. Accompanied by snippets of dialogue from films like THE LADYKILLERS, along with 20th Century Fox's triumphant theme music, and Nat King Cole crooning Stardust, Davies's camera glides down a rain drenched Liverpool street, its houses now in ruin, with a peeling poster of THE ROBE hanging on a wall. Davies then fades to a sunny, sepia-toned 1955 where in one such house 11-year-old Bud begs to go to a picture show. Unlike in Davies's previous work, Bud's home is happy and safe, complete with joyful holiday tableaux, and numerous movie outings. His Catholic school, however, is a harsh world where teachers give lashings, and he is bullied and friendless. Bud is a wistful observer in life – both at the cinema, and at home, watching his much older siblings and neighborhood kids from the window. Davies again creates a lovely, dreamlike montage of memories, with gliding tracking shots and an artful layering of film dialogue (THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, GREAT EXPECTATIONS), pop songs and religious music.
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- Sales Rank: 80,098
- UPC: 715515112611
- Shipping Weight: 0.28/lbs (approx)
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