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The long day closes [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Terence Davies.

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Criterion Collection, 2014.

Davies, Terence, 1945- -- Childhood and youth -- Drama.

Working class families -- England -- Liverpool -- Drama.

Motion pictures -- Appreciation -- Drama.

Bullying -- Drama.

Liverpool (England) -- Social life and customs -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 694.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special ed.

1 videodiscdisc (85 min.) : Dolby digital stereo. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet (16 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm.)

Originally released as a motion picture in 1992.

Special features: New, restored 2K digital film transfer, supervised by director Terence Davies and director of photography Michael Coulter, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on Blu-ray ; audio commentary by Davies and Coulter ; Episode of the British television series The South Bank show from 1992, featuring Davies, footage from the film's production, and interviews with cast and crew ; new interviews with executive producer Colin MacCabe and production designer Christopher Hobbs ; trailer ; PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Koresky.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

The British Film Institute and Film Four International present a British Film Institute production ; "A fond kiss and then we sever" sung by Isobel Buchanan ; "Once in Royal David's City" sung by Ruth Davies ; "She moved through the fair" sung by Gerard O'Beirne ; music director, Robert Lockhart ; executive producers, Ben Gibson & Colin MacCabe ; produced by Olivia Stewart ; written & directed by Terence Davies.

Leigh McCormack and Marjorie Yates with Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont, Ayse Owens, Tina Malone and Jimmy Wilde.

"The Long Day Closes is the most gloriously cinematic expression of the unique sensibility of Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives; The Deep Blue Sea), widely celebrated as Britain's greatest living filmmaker. Bursting with both enchantment and melancholy, this autobiographical film takes on the perspective of a quiet boy growing up lonely in Liverpool in the 1950s. But rather than employ a straightforward narrative, Davies jumps in and out of time, swoops into fantasies and fears, summons memories and dreams. A singular filmic tapestry, The Long Day Closes is an evocative, movie- and music-besotted portrait of the artist as a young man."--Container.

Biographical films.

Coming-of-age films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Davies, Terence, 1945-

McCormack, Leigh.

Yates, Marjorie.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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