Tickets On Sale For Of Time And The City World Premiere

As part of Liverpool 08, the BFI and Northwest Vision and Media present the World Premiere of Terence Davies' critically acclaimed Of Time and the City at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Thursday 9 October at 8pm. We are delighted to announce that Terence Davies will attend this event which promises to be one of the cinematic highlights of the 2008 Capital of Culture celebrations.

TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HAVE NOW SOLD OUT

Terence Davies’ cinematic love letter to his native Liverpool took this year’s Cannes Film Festival by storm. Specially commissioned to celebrate the city's year as European Capital of Culture, Of Time and the City was made for a modest £250,000. It was produced by Merseyside company Hurricane Films as part of Digital Departures, a competitive scheme devised by Northwest Vision and Media with its partners Liverpool Culture Company, BBC Films and the UK Film Council.

Fiona Gasper, Executive Producer, Liverpool Culture Company, said: “Digital Departures is our main film project for 2008 and we are delighted that Of Time and the City has received such a great reception from the film industry. It’s a very special film and the public premiere is sure to be extremely popular, so I would advise people to get their tickets early.”

Widely hailed as a masterpiece, Of Time and the City is Davies’ first film in almost a decade. It marks a spectacular return to the spotlight for the director who won world-wide acclaim for his Liverpool-set classics Distant Voices, Still Lives (1998) and The Long Day Closes (1992). Images of the city past and present are magically combined with a wonderfully rich selection of music (ranging from Peggy Lee to Mahler, Handel to The Hollies), voices, radio clips, and the director’s voiceover. ‘I wanted to make a blend of history and poetry to capture what it was like to be a Liverpudlian,’ says Davies, who also describes his film as ‘a rumination on time and mortality’.

The other Digital Departures features, horror flick, Salvage, and drama, Kicks (formerly Starstruck), will have their own premieres in Liverpool in the near future. More details will be revealed soon, so keep an eye on the Vision and Media website in the next few weeks!