LONDON (AP) — British filmmaker Terence Davies, best known for a pair of powerful, lyrical movies inspired by his childhood in postwar Liverpool, has died at the age of 77.
Davies’ manager John Taylor said the director died “peacefully at home in his sleep” on Saturday after a short illness.
After making several short films, Davies made his feature debut as writer-director in 1988 with “Distant Voices, Still Lives,” a dreamlike — sometimes nightmarish — collage of a film that evoked a childhood of poverty and violence leavened by music and movie magic.
The film won the Cannes International Critics Prize in 1988, and in 2002 was voted the ninth-best film of the past 25 years by British film critics.
The autobiographical films opened the door to bigger budgets and more mainstream films, still showcasing Davies' distinctive lyricism and often set in the 19th or early 20th centuries.
Persons:
Terence Davies, Davies, John Taylor, “, Michael Koresky, ” Koresky, John Kennedy Toole, ”, Gillian Anderson, Edith Wharton’s, Terence Rattigan, Rachel Weisz, Agyness Deyn, Emily Dickinson —, Cynthia Nixon —, ” Davies, Siegfried Sassoon, Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Julian Sands
Organizations:
National Film School, Cannes International, ”, Liverpool, City, British Film Institute
Locations:
British, Liverpool, Coventry, U.S, Mirth, Scotland