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- Released as a double-disc package with both a standard DVD and a high-def BD, Criterion's The Long Day Closes is an exceptional technical achievement. Davis himself oversaw the new transfer, which works with restored 2K digital elements. The widescreen presentation is gorgeous, with wonderful colors and excellent detail.
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Feb 5, 2014 · The current Criterion Collection release of Terence Davies' 1992 masterpiece, "The Long Day Closes", marks the film's DVD/Blu-ray debut on American home video. What follows is an excerpt from the book on the work of Terence Davies, which is currently being written by our contributor, Michał Oleszczyk.
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- Picture 9/10
- Audio 8/10
- Extras 8/10
- Closing
The Long Day Closes is the most gloriously cinematic expression of the unique sensibility of Terence Davies, widely celebrated as Britain’s greatest living filmmaker. Suffused with both enchantment and melancholy, this autobiographical film takes on the perspective of a quiet, lonely boy growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s. But rather than employ ...
Terrence Davies makes his debut in The Criterion Collection with his 1992 film The Long Day Closes, presented here in a new 2-disc dual-format edition. Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, the film’s high-definition transfer is presented in 1080p/24hz on a dual-layer Blu-ray disc, while a standard definition version, enhanced for wides...
The lossless linear PCM 2.0 stereo track is incredibly robust and far more dynamic than I would have expected for the film. I admittedly threw the subtitles on because I had issues with a few accents but this is something inherent in the recordings and nothing to do with the presentation, which is otherwise sharp and clear. Music is especially impr...
Criterion puts together a nice little special edition here, starting with an audio commentarywith director Terrence Davies and director of photography Michael Coulter, which was actually recorded for a 2007 UK DVD edition. I’m not familiar with Davies so I wasn’t sure what to expect from the commentary after viewing his film. I was surprised by how...
A great looking transfer and some solid supplements (including a great commentary track) makes this release a must. It comes with a high recommendation. BUY AT:
Jan 14, 2014 · Experienced completely through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy named Bud, Terence Davies’ 1992 film The Long Day Closes is a deeply personal impressionistic triumph, out in a dual-format Blu-ray and DVD from The Criterion Collection.
Feb 11, 2014 · Released as a double-disc package with both a standard DVD and a high-def BD, Criterion's The Long Day Closes is an exceptional technical achievement. Davis himself oversaw the new transfer, which works with restored 2K digital elements.
Jan 17, 2014 · The Long Day Closes (Criterion Collection, Blu-ray/DVD combo, $39.95)--ANDY KLEIN is the film critic for Marquee. He can also be heard on “FilmWeek” on KPCC-FM (89.3).
- Andy Klein
This is certainly true of The Long Day Closes (1992), an autobiographical coming-of-age tale set in 1950s Liverpool. It depicts Davies’ happiest years – after his abusive father died and before puberty set in.
Feb 4, 2014 · Where earlier films featured clearly delineated structures (think the short-combing The Terence Davies Trilogy or the bifurcation of Distant Voices, Still Lives), The Long Day Closes is one undulating mass, a plotless reverie of the period of Davies’s life in which he felt free.
