Of Time and the City
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Of Time and the City (2008) is a British documentary collage film directed by Terence Davies. The film has Davies recalling his life growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s, using newsreel and documentary footage supplemented by his own commentary voiceover and contemporaneous and classical music soundtracks.
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References within the film
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Poetry and literature
- A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman (opening narration, with the line "the land of lost content")
- Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Felician Myrbach ("If Liverpool did not exist, it would have to be invented.")
- Ulysses by James Joyce ("As you are now we once were.")
- King James Bible - Psalm 107 ("They that go down to the sea in ships..."), Psalm 137 ("By the waters of Babylon, where we sat down..."), etc.
- The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels ("Removed from the sight of happier classes, poverty may struggle along as it can.")
- Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ("Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark!")
- The Untold Want by Walt Whitman ("Now voyager go forth to seek and find.")
- Willem de Kooning ("The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time...")
- Alexander Chekhov ("The golden moments pass and leave no trace.")
- Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot, especially "East Coker" and "Little Gidding".
- Cicero ("O tempora, O mores.")
- Poem 301 by Emily Dickinson.
- The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare ("Good night, ladies. Good night, sweet ladies...")
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Music
- Franz Liszt
- The Protecting Veil by John Tavener
- Hooray for Hollywood, song from the film Hollywood Hotel
- Dirty Old Town performed by The Spinners (UK band)
- Keep The Home Fires Burning (song)
- Still I Love Him (traditional) (sung by a young girl)
- He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother recorded by The Hollies used over images of the Korean War
- I was glad, heard during Elizabeth II's coronation ("Vivat Regina, Vivat Regina Elizabetha. Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!")
- The Folks Who Live on the Hill performed by Peggy Lee whilst showing images of the newly erected tower blocks
- The Beatles
- Hippy Hippy Shake performed by The Swinging Blue Jeans
- Elvis Presley
- Merseybeat
- Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson
- Alma Cogan
- Lita Roza
- Dickie Valentine
- Anton Bruckner
- Gustav Mahler
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Jean Sibelius
- Jussi Björling
- Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Aleksandr Gauk
- Otto Klemperer
- Hans Knappertsbusch
- Robert Merrill
- Gheorghe Popescu Branesti
- Charles Munch
- Anneliese Rothenberger
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
- Amy Shuard
- The Pearl Fishers, opera by Georges Bizet
- Victor Sylvester
- Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam, Christian hymn
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Films
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Fashion
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Landmarks
- Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
- Aintree Racecourse
- Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King
- St. George's Hall, Liverpool
- Sefton Park
- Liverpool Stadium
- River Mersey
- Liverpool Exchange railway station
- New Brighton Tower
- Royal Liver Building
- Cunard Building
- Port of Liverpool Building
- Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm
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Nearby locales
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Regular events
- Guy Fawkes Night
- The Twelfth
- May Day
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Sports
- Accrington Stanley
- Sheffield
- Hamilton Academical
- Queen of the South
- Preston North End
- Blackpool
- Everton
- West Ham United
- Leicester City
- Leeds United
- Manchester United
- Grand National
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Celebrities
- Kenneth Horne
- Gene Kelly
- Dirk Bogarde
- Bob Danvers-Walker
- Michael O'Hehir
- Peter O'Sullevan
- Bebe Daniels
- Ben Lyon
- Gregory Peck
- Greta Kukkonen
- Valerie Hobson
- John McCallum
- Margaret Lockwood
- Peter Sellers
- Lord Mayor of Birkenhead, Alderman Griffith Davies
- Petula Clark
- Lisa Daniely
- Christine Norden
- Richard Todd
- Jack Hawkins
- Paul Carpenter
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Scholars
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Radio programmes
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Laws
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Religious leaders
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Historical figures
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Contemporary
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See also
- The Memories of Angels, a similarly constructed film about Montreal
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