CHAIR OF HUMANITY
TERENCE DAVIES
Revered in the United Kingdom, Davies is chiefly known for his two highly autobiographical films, Distant Voice, Still Lives, which won the International Critics Award in Toronto, and The Long Day Closes, as well as his adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, starring Gillian Anderson and Laura Linney. “The fact that he hasn’t been given the money to make the string of unrealized projects he has gathering dust in his bottom drawer is little short of a national disgrace,” wrote Shane Danielsen in Britain’s Guardian newspaper last year. After seeing his most recent movie, Of Time and the City—an enthralling ode to Liverpool, his hometown—you’ll understand what he means. Somebody, please give this man some money.
