OF TIME & the CITY
via Terence Davies
“We had hoped for Paradise.
We got the Anus Mundi.”
Obligation despite my dogged piety. No revelation came.
Football like life was
too rich or too poor for my rapacious appetite.
I said goodbye to
my whole world--home, school, movies, God.
Earth does not revolve.
Chilblains with Christmas in the air.
In all those movies it was always perfect.
Time renders to seek
youth that cannot end hope that . . .
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 4-8-09 (1:56 PM)
Must admit that initially Terence Davies had no name recognition for me, and though
hoping this film might be a "city symphony", I had trouble convincing myself to attend its
one & only screening. A bit of internet research convinced me that he was an auteur
whose previous work had not been shown in this area. His voiceover was my only
source, and I knew I had quarried something promising before the film ended, even
having the confidence to start another text ("Oh the times! Oh the / fashions!"), though
the word pool ran out shortly afterwords. I revised the initial draft in the museum
cafeteria before being irritated by Nagisa Oshima's "Night and Fog in Japan", and then
touched it up on three subsequent occasions
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