Terence Davies (1945–2023)

The screenwriter and director Terence Davies has died at the age of seventy-seven. The New York Times has an obituary.

I’ve seen seven of Terence Davies’s films: Children (1976), Madonna and Child (1980), Death and Transfiguration (1983), Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Long Day Closes (1992), Of Time and the City (2008), and The Deep Blue Sea (2011). Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes are among my favorite films of, as they say, all time. And I was looking forward to Davies’s adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s The Post Office Girl, which was supposed to begin filming this past summer.

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