The Movie: Commissioned as a celebration of Liverpool, Of Time and the City explores the past of the city, reminiscing about its glories and failures, from politics and social movements through to popular culture and its contribution to music. What Makes It Original: Liverpool-born director Terence Davies eschews conventional documentary making in favour of an intensely personal account of his own life growing up in the city, seamlessly mixing archive footage with his own wry, sardonic and affectionate observations. The end product is a documentary perhaps only in name - Davies' personal account and subjectivity transforms Of Time and the City into more a memoir collage in which the nature of memory takes on a significance approaching that in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, reaching the level of poetic meditation.
