At a New York retrospective of his work, the storied British director spoke of his love of the American Songbook and how good he is at ‘death and misery’
With the aid of a cane the 70-year-old British film director Terence Davies bounded up to the podium at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image to warm the crowd with a little praise. “You have a lot to be proud of. My great debt is to American musicals. The American Songbook is the greatest gift to the world.” The multiple award-winner, whose early works are music-drenched kaleidoscopic reflections of post-war Liverpool, exuded buoyant Americanophilia stating “the only good musicals are American,” before taking a snipe at Britain’s “Andrew Rice Pudding”.
Davies is on these shores just as Sunset Song, his adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons’ novel that the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw calls “sad, sombre and deeply satisfying”, makes its American debut.
With the aid of a cane the 70-year-old British film director Terence Davies bounded up to the podium at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image to warm the crowd with a little praise. “You have a lot to be proud of. My great debt is to American musicals. The American Songbook is the greatest gift to the world.” The multiple award-winner, whose early works are music-drenched kaleidoscopic reflections of post-war Liverpool, exuded buoyant Americanophilia stating “the only good musicals are American,” before taking a snipe at Britain’s “Andrew Rice Pudding”.
Davies is on these shores just as Sunset Song, his adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons’ novel that the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw calls “sad, sombre and deeply satisfying”, makes its American debut.
- 5/9/2016
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
At a New York retrospective of his work, the storied British director spoke of his love of the American Songbook and how good he is at ‘death and misery’
With the aid of a cane the 70-year-old British film director Terence Davies bounded up to the podium at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image to warm the crowd with a little praise. “You have a lot to be proud of. My great debt is to American musicals. The American Songbook is the greatest gift to the world.” The multiple award-winner, whose early works are music-drenched kaleidoscopic reflections of post-war Liverpool, exuded buoyant Americanophilia stating “the only good musicals are American,” before taking a snipe at Britain’s “Andrew Rice Pudding”.
Davies is on these shores just as Sunset Song, his adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons’ novel that the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw calls “sad, sombre and deeply satisfying”, makes its American debut.
With the aid of a cane the 70-year-old British film director Terence Davies bounded up to the podium at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image to warm the crowd with a little praise. “You have a lot to be proud of. My great debt is to American musicals. The American Songbook is the greatest gift to the world.” The multiple award-winner, whose early works are music-drenched kaleidoscopic reflections of post-war Liverpool, exuded buoyant Americanophilia stating “the only good musicals are American,” before taking a snipe at Britain’s “Andrew Rice Pudding”.
Davies is on these shores just as Sunset Song, his adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons’ novel that the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw calls “sad, sombre and deeply satisfying”, makes its American debut.
- 5/9/2016
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
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