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Article: A look back at a once-grand 'City' at end of an era
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- June 19, 2009
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'OF TIME AND THE CITY' Rating 3 1/2 out of 4
Strand Releasing presents a documentary written, narrated and directed by Terence Davies. Running time: 77 minutes. No MPAA rating (language). Opening today at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
The streets of our cities are haunted by the ghosts of those who were young here long ago. In memory we recall our own past happiness and pain. Terence Davies, whose subject has often been his own life, now turns to his city, Liverpool, England, and regrets not so much the joys of his youth as those he did not have. Central to these are the sexual experiences forbidden by the Catholic Church to which he was most devoted.
Liverpool was once a shipbuilding ...