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The Long Day Closes [1992] [DVD]

Marjorie Yates , Leigh McCormack , Terence Davies    Parental Guidance   DVD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont
  • Directors: Terence Davies
  • Writers: Terence Davies
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Bfi
  • DVD Release Date: 28 July 2008
  • Run Time: 81 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0018OS158
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 32,761 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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A collection of moments in the childhood of Bud, a Liverpudlian schoolboy in 1955. Plucked from his cosy home when he is sent to his new Catholic school, the film looks at his loneliness as teachers and pupils pick on him and his increasing isolation at home as he hovers between childhood and adolescence. His beloved film idols and screen stories keep him company in his imagination but in the real world he feels increasingly like a misfit.

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes, Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Terence Davies' blissful, evocative and non-narrative follow-up to his Distant Voices, Still Lives follows a few months in the life of 12-year-old Bud (Leigh McCormack), in impressionistic snatches of his everyday existence growing up in the Liverpool of 1956. Bud's world is influenced by his mother (Marjorie Yates), his older sister Helen (Ayse Owens), and his older brothers John (Nicholas Lamont) and Kevin (Anthony Watson). Bud is a lonely and quiet child whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another day as he deals with his oppressive school environment and his burgeoning homosexuality. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, ...The Long Day Closes

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58 of 58 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps my favourite film 1 Aug 2008
Format:DVD
With the release of Terence Davies's "The Long Day Closes", the BFI are continuing to ensure that the work of Britain's greatest living film-maker is finally made available on DVD.

The undoubted highpoint of this particular DVD is its beautiful transfer, which was overseen by the film's cinematographer Michael Coulter, and by Davies himself. And I do not think this visually ravishing film has ever looked better than it does on this DVD, which also contains a superb commentary by Davies and Coulter, some illuminating footage of Davies directing, and an interesting interview with the film's production designer Christopher Hobbs (who also designed the director's follow-up film "The Neon Bible"). These last two items are both taken from a South Bank Show about Davies that was shown in the early 1990s, and I hope it is not asking too much to say that it would be really great if the BFI could release this on DVD at some point; on the forthcoming DVD of Davies's new film "Of Time and the City", perhaps?

As for the film itself, it remains - in my very humble opinion - one of the best films ever made. It is surely one of the greatest films about childhood, up there with Charles Laughton's "The Night of the Hunter" in its evocation of the joy, terror, and plain confusion of being young. It is very similar to "Distant Voices, Still Lives" in a number of ways. It is about life in Davies's family in 1950s Liverpool after his father had died. It has a structure that is more circular than linear. It is full of lovely music, classical and popular. And it is filmed in the director's trademark style: careful compositions, luminous dissolves, and elliptical, geography-defying tracking shots, which take us from a cinema to a funfair, and from Christmas to New Year and back to Christmas, seemingly in one single take. The result is breathtaking.

But unlike "Distant Voices, Still Lives", the focus of this film is the younger Davies himself, here christened with the resonant name "Bud". The film concentrates on a single period in his life, a period when, even though he was very happy, his childhood innocence was suffering small but significant erosions - from school, from the church, and from his own developing sexuality. Never before has a film portrayed this process of erosion with such subtlety and power.

I could go on, but you get the general idea. This film is a total cracker, and I would like to thank the BFI most heartily for giving it this excellent DVD release!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Interior Life of a Child 4 Feb 2009
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The director describes the inner life of a young boy with a series of poignant and moving images that often get lost as we grow older. The family is beautifully drawn, and yet it is as though we are watching ghosts filtered through the young boy's dream-like existence. There is a beautiful scene, very short, where the boy looks from the house window and sees his brother, stripped to the waist, building a wall. Through brilliant direction and acting we know that the boy is filled with love and admiration for his brother, admiration for him as a beautiful man and love for him as his brother, as well as an almost primitive knowledge that things pass, that this moment will be gone. In the heightened, emotional life of the child where everything is highly significant, there is a poignant gap between the strange adult world and this precious small moment.
In a way this film describes how the limited view of the child, confined by the street, school, his friend, makes a whole universe in itself that is larger than the world of the adults around him, despite their mystique, their perceived freedom. At the end of the film the boy and his friend see themselves as part of the mysteries of the universe. They can make the natural leap from the small tragedies of their childhood world and the warm confines of a bustling working class household to the stars and planets that an inspired teacher has introduced them to. They can make that link. A masterpiece.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece of Cinema 4 Nov 2008
Format:DVD
Through the use of music,soundtracks of films,minimal dialogue,imaginative lighting and camerawork,the director Terence Davies recreates the lost world of his childhood in 1950s Liverpool. The film is nostalgic but never sentimental and Davies has the marvelous gift of making the mundane poetic.Quite simply a masterpiece and a film that deserves to be better known. It should be in anybodies 100 best films of all time: it's certainly in mine.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful and deeply moving film
This is Terence Davies' follow up to Distant Voices, Still Lives. The film explores similar territory and set in Liverpool in the 1950s is a meditation on childhood and a time that... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Seoulprovider
5.0 out of 5 stars the long day closes
Classy art film.Seen from the eye and the mind of an 11 year old.England in the fifties ,a different country
Published 2 months ago by Robert Bromfield
1.0 out of 5 stars Roll on Guy Fawkes night
I'm giving this film 1 star for atmosphere.
Having been brought up among Roman Catholics
I watched this film with contempt; some parts
I had to skip from sheer... Read more
Published on 14 April 2010 by RD Marchant
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Greats
This is a film that will linger long in your memory. Quite different from the majority of films this one can be watched on many levels, repeatedly, each time discovering something... Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2009 by Dusty Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Something unusual--a film as a work of art!
Most people are unfamiliar with the films of Terence Davies-- the films are probably not for popular taste--but film lovers who have a taste for beauty are going to experience... Read more
Published on 13 Mar 2009 by Ronald Chase Sf Film
3.0 out of 5 stars Not for the easily bored!
This is a 'good' film: that is, not written with an eye to the box office, and beautifully done. It shows life more as it is, as opposed to the vast majority of films. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2009 by Mrs. A. M. J. Wigmore
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