The BFI has announced that a major celebration of Terence Davies, titled Love. Sex. Religion. Death. The Complete Films of Terence Davies, will run at BFI Southbank from 20 October-30 November. Programmed by BFI chief executive Ben Roberts, the season will provide a comprehensive journey through Davies’ body of work, alongside a free exhibition curated … Read more
PAINTING TERENCE DAVIES’ POETRY You wouldn’t associate filmmaker Terence Davies with VFX. His films are fluid but sedate, his compositions painterly, the structure and content tending to the poetic. Yet in Benediction, a drama based on the life of solider and poet Siegfried Sassoon, his interest in blending classical with digital technique comes to the fore. … Read more
English Affair Florian Hoffmeister / The Deep Blue Sea English Affair Florian Hoffmeister / The Deep Blue Sea Regardless of who wrote them, some plays are doomed never to be staged again after their first production. Others are blessed with regular revivals. Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea falls into the second category. Since the … Read more