Of Time and City makes Time's top ten

Director Terence Davies' acclaimed Of Time and the City has been named one of Time magazine's top 10 movies of the year.

Liverpool-based Hurricane Films was also celebrating today after the documentary was awarded the New York Critics Circle best non-fiction film of the year award.

Of Time and the City was one of 3 winners of Northwest Vision and Media's Digital Departures competition organised for Capital of Culture year, and £250,000 budget was part-funded by Liverpool City Council.

Of Time and the City sits alongside films including UP, Fantastic Mr Fox, and the Cannes top prize winner The White Ribbon in the Time's top 10.

The magazine describes the film as "a kind of Liverpool mon amour, a documemoir that used newsreel and home movies to create what Davies called a 'valediction and an epitaph'."

Terence Davies's homage to his home city was also a hit at last year's Cannes Film Festival and was released in cinemas across America in January. It is also in the running for a Cinema Eye award for non-fiction filmmaking, due to be announced in New York on January 10.

Meanwhile Hurricane Films is also enjoying success with Liverpool-filmed movie Under the Mud, part funded by Northwest Vision and Media, is currently out on DVD.