Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Distant voices, still lives / writer/director, Terence Davies.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Arrow Academy, [2018]

Description:

1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file Blu-Ray region A

Summary:

Loosely based on the director's own family and upbringing, it presents an evocative account of working-class life in Liverpool, England during the 1940s and '50s. Births, marriages and deaths, and an expressive use of music, provide the underpinning for a film that is beautiful, heartbreaking, resonant but never sentimental. Now regarded as a masterpiece of British cinema, and boasting a startling performance from Pete Postlethwaite as the head of the family.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG-13.

Subjects:

Working class families -- England -- Liverpool -- Drama.

Family violence -- Drama.

Parent and adult child -- Drama.

Brothers and sisters -- Drama.

Parents -- Death -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Musical films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Davies, Terence, 1945-2023 screenwriter, film director.

Dowie, Freda, actor.

Postlethwaite, Pete, actor.

Walsh, Angela (Actress), actor.

Arrow Academy (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Title from web page.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1988.

"Brand new 4K restoration, carried out by the British Film Institute"

High definition 1080p presentation.

Special features: commentary by writer-director, Terence Davies; interview with Davies; inerview with art director Miki van Zwanenberg; theatrical trailer.

Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh.

Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player.

Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

ISBN:

9786317460386 : BRHD

6317460388 : BRHD

Publisher Number:

AA034

Other Number:

1054110869

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

765271

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

BLU MOVIE Distant