Director slates 'lousy' US cinema

                   
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bbc.co.uk     21-May-2008            

Davies is best known for his 1988 film Distant Voices, Still Lives Director Terence Davies has urged his fellow British film-makers to reject "sub-American nonsense" and create films made in and about the UK instead. "If we are going to have a national cinema, we have got to make stories which... [read full story]                    

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UK film-makers urged to look within

jpress.co.uk     21-May-2008          

A film-maker whose movie has been shown in the Cannes Film Festival has criticised "sub-American nonsense" and said Britain should look to itself for ideas. Terence Davies' Of Time And The City, shown out of competition, has turned out to be one of the highlights of the festival, drawing rave...                    

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British films imitate lousy US templates, says director

independent.co.uk     22-May-2008          

The screenwriter and film director Terence Davies has launched an impassioned broadside against his fellow British filmmakers and stars. Davies, whose latest offering Of Time And The City – a paean to the Liverpool of his youth which has taken the Cannes festival by critical storm – said: "If we...                    

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Davies 'rediscovers' home city

metro.co.uk     23-May-2008          

Terence Davies' Cannes film is about Liverpool Terence Davies has said making his film Of Time And The City was about "re-discovering" his home city. Davies, who grew up in Liverpool, said "I wanted to capture the essence of what it was like to be a Liverpudlian... "It was re-discovering the city...                    

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The King of Cannes

thisislondon.co.uk     23-May-2008          

the intermittent Riviera sun. No wonder he was so happy - he was back in Cannes for the first time in 12 years and with a new film, Of Time and the City, which has been attracting rave reviews from the critics. The last time Davies was here was in 1996 with a film called The Neon Bible, based on...                    

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