Of Time and the City

I finally saw Terence Davies' Of Time and the City and loved every minute of it. A lyrical docu-collage that mixes incredible archive footage of Liverpool, the town Davies grew up in during the 1950's, with the music of his youth and the directors own rich narration.

Davies achieves the sublime in some of the more experimental juxtapositions between sound and image such as the footage of The Beatles and their teenage audience in the cavern club underscored with a 19th century classical piece that segues seamlessly into footage of ballroom dancers.