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Article: the interview: Film-maker with a talent for controversy; Soon Terence Davies tells Lew Baxter about his passions, furies and the films that shook the movie world.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- October 19, 2007
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Byline: Lew Baxter
THERE are, admittedly, a fewfolk wallowing in the comfy cloisters of the film industry that will exclaim snootily that Terence Davies is his own worst enemy, but there are throngs of others more sympathetic to his avowedly independent free spirit, who hail him as a genius.
Davies is not the kind of bloke to acknowledge either faction with any degree of fervour, but even his modesty must allow him a modicum of gratification that the British Film Institute and London's South bank recently described him as original, audacious and an uncompromising poet of cinema.
He'd relish, no doubt, the uncompromising bit, as this ...