British filmmaker Terence Davies, whose acclaimed films include 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' and 'The Long Day Closes,' has died. He was 77.
British filmmaker Terence Davies, whose work plumbed his troubled upbringing, has died 'after a short illness,' according to his friends. He was 77. Davies' death was announced on his Instagram page.
' He was born in Liverpool, England, in 1945 and raised Catholic. As a gay man, he struggled within the tenets of his religion and tackled the pain of his youth in the documentary 'Of Time and the City,' which premiered at Cannes in 2008. 'I do see the glass as half-empty,' he told The Times. 'Whatever optimism I had was killed as a child. When you see your abusive father dying for two years and then the body is in the house for 10 days, that crushes romance.
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