Of Time and the City - Biopic Film about life in Liverpool

I really enjoyed this film. Nevertheless, I found The Long Day Closes and Distant Voices superior, but of course they are very different to this poetic documentary. In The Long Day Closes I love the opening, mute scene of the emptied Kensington Street inundated with rain. Having not lived through the mass demolition period, it's the one scene that I've seen that, for me, encapsulates the inner-city 'cleansing'.

'Of Time and the City' is a beautiful, tragic film that is part love song to a city and part wake to ones lost childhood. It's fantastic.

To compare it to 'Passport to Liverpool', an interesting, laudable, but ultimately low quality and disjointed documentary is bizarre.

Richard_A said:

'Of Time and the City' is a beautiful, tragic film that is part love song to a city and part wake to ones lost childhood. It's fantastic.

To compare it to 'Passport to Liverpool', an interesting, laudable, but ultimately low quality and disjointed documentary is bizarre.

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I think you mean in your opinion there. I found it poignant in parts,cloying in the others. Let's face it without Joyce,Eliot et al it would be crap:lol:

I found it dull in all honesty, its obviously a very personal story. But apart from the great images, i found the narrative didnt take it anywhere, and after about 20 mins i wanted to turn it off, but carried on, and was not impressed.

Brilliant imho but still not as good as Gardens of Stone made on a budget of £20.46p in comparison.

I've just watched it on iPlayer.

I can see why people wanted to turn it off, I made it to 18 minutes before pausing for a break because I found the narration too irritating.

There wasn't really an hours content in the doc'.

I enjoyed it,some of his comments made me laugh,
But I think my folks enjoyed it more as it took them through their years growing up.

It is a good biography of post war Liverpool.

It's a good account of pre and post war Liverpool up until about the time he left! Like many ex-pats he is good at revealing the city he has internalised but this doesn't reveal Liverpool in 2010 - in many ways a much more interesting city. Someone else will do that.