Love, Sex, Religion, Death: The Complete Films of Terence Davies

A new trailer was released today for the upcoming retrospective Love, Sex, Religion, Death: The Complete Films of Terence Davies at BFI in London between October and November.

The trailer is a perfect combination of film clips by one of my favourite directors and music by one of my favourite bands. The song is Paninaro by Pet Shop Boys.

I wish the person who made this trailer was credited on YouTube. I will try to find out who made it.

Today is also my birthday, so I feel this is a birthday gift from the BFI and the internet.

About the retrospective:

Davies’ cinema is one of memory, longing and tragedy, profoundly personal but universal in its themes: the suffocation of love, the cruelty of faith, the temptations of the flesh and the constant shadow of death. Yet his films are also alive with the songs and cinema that he adored. From his deeply autobiographical trilogy, Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes to his luscious interpretations of Edith Wharton, Terrence Rattigan and the lives of Emily Dickinson and Siegfried Sassoon, Davies brought a poetic intensity to his work, layering sound, silence, portrait, landscape and music to breathtaking, often unbearably moving effect.

Two years on from his death, this season presents a complete journey through Davies’ body of work, and a selection of his personal archives that are housed at Edge Hill University. It’s a celebration of his heroism and quiet radicalism, tracing the evolution of an artist who gave cinema his soul.

Ben Roberts, BFI Chief Executive and season curator

If you are in New York this month, there’s a Terence Davies retrospective at the Museum of Moving Image, Terence Davies: Time Present And Time Past, between September 12 - 21.