80th Birthday Celebration Events for Terence Davies in 2025
10 November 2025 would have been Terence's 80th birthday. To mark the occassion events are taking place in the UK and the US.
12 September 2025, New York, USA
Launch of a new edition of Terence's novel Hallelujah Now
Terence Davies’s only published novel. First published in 1984, this beautiful new edition includes a selection of Davies’s original poetry, much of it unseen before, along with an introduction by Michael Koresky and an afterword by James Dowling of the Terence Davies Estate.
“Hallelujah Now fearlessly uses the novel form to give voice to anxieties that might have been otherwise unportrayable. Many artists who work in other mediums carry literary aspirations; few pull it off with such provocation and undaunted individuality. Davies’s cinema had no comparison, it was a subgenre unto itself, and similarly Davies’s novel feels like nothing less than a pure emanation of the self, beholden to nothing and no one else.” —Michael Koresky, from his introduction.
Published by Film Desk Books, 2025
Sewn bound hardcover
First printing of 2,000 copies
191 pages
8x6 inches
To pre-order a copy in the US, please follow this link:
Copies will be availble in the UK and EU in September
The novel will be launched at the opening night of Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York on 12 September
12 September - 21 September 2015, New York, USA
Terence Davies Retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image
Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past
"When Terence Davies passed away in the fall of 2023, the world lost one of its greatest, most uncompromising cinematic artists. The British director all but invented his own film language, using sound and image to radically and meaningfully plumb the depths of human desire and alienation, as well as the joys of family, of poetry, of music, and, of course, movies. From the unfathomably moving, aesthetically revelatory autobiographical masterworks Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, which transformed his memories of growing up in working-class Liverpool into nonlinear dreams that collapsed past and present, to his brilliant adaptations of classic novels (The House of Mirth, Sunset Song) to his galvanizing portrayals of poets Emily Dickinson and Siegfried Sassoon, Davies created movies as a true artist should, using the form for self-expression and as a means of working through complicated emotions: of wrestling with faith, with his homosexuality, with his familial traumas. Davies made every single moment of every film count, and his work always reflected his true self with honesty, courage, and visual command" - Michael Koresky, Curator.
Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past will include Davies’ nine features, many of which are in rare film prints, as well as his trilogy of early short films and other rarely screened shorts. Cynthia Nixon, who portrayed Emily Dickinson in “A Quiet Passion,” will be in attendance for the September 18 screening. The opening night reception will also be celebrating the reissue of Davies’ 1984 novel “Hallelujah Now,” published by Film Desk Books. Highlights additionally range from “The House of Mirth,” “The Deep Blue Sea,” and “Benediction” screenings, as well as the autobiographical “Distant Voices, Still Lives” and “The Long Day Closes.”
Link here for further details (Museum of the Moving Image website)
16 October 2025, London, UK
Publication of two volumes of the Terence Davies: Screenplays by Bloomsbury
Volume One: Autobiography and Biography
This collection of Terence Davies's screenplays brings together his powerful autobiographical work, from the films that comprise The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983) to his 2008 poetic documentary Of Time and the City of 2008, and his biopics of the poets Emily Dickinson and Siegfried Sassoon. The screenplays are supported by new critical introductions and by film stills and previously unpublished material from Terence Davies's personal archive.
Volume Two: Adaptations
This second volume of Terence Davies's screenplays brings together his adaptations of classic novels and plays, including his 1995 film of John Kennedy Toole's coming-of-age novel The Neon Bible; his adaptation of Edith Wharton's classic The House of Mirth, starring Gillian Anderson as the young New York socialite Lily Bart; his 2011 film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play The Deep Blue Sea, and Sunset Song, his adaptation of the Great War novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. The screenplays are enriched by previously unpublished material from Terence Davies's personal archive, and there is an introduction to the screenplays by the film critic Lillian Crawford.
Interview with Mark Cousins from 'Projections'
1. The Neon Bible (1995)
2. The House of Mirth (2000)
3. The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
4. Sunset Song (2015)
PREVIOUSLY.........
News: 27 September 2021
Terence Davies wins the San Sebastian International Film Festival Jury Prize for BEST SCREENPLAY 2021
Terence Davies at the Viennale 2021 (21-31 October 2021)
NEWS: 22 September 2021
Terence Davies at the Still Voices Film Festival in Ballymahon, Co. Longford, 4 - 7 November, 2021
Still Voices Film Festival are thrilled to announce acclaimed director Terence Davies will attend the 2021 festival for a special screening of his 1988 masterpiece Distant Voices Still Lives, after which the festival took its name. This in-person event will take place on November 5th in the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone, and will be followed by a conversation between Davies and film critic John Maguire. The following day, November 6th, in partnership with Screen Skills Ireland, Davies will participate in a directing masterclass with renowned Irish filmmaker Pat Collins at the Backstage Theatre, Longford. Davies and Collins will discuss the British filmmaker’s long and varied filmography, his film-making style and unique sensibility.
Terence Davies will also receive the inaugural ‘Still Voices Visionary Award’ for his significant contribution to the art of cinema.