Terence Davies on Ealing

In this film the director Terence Davies, a long-time Ealing fan and a former student of the studio's most celebrated director, Alexander Mackendrick, talks about his love for two Ealing comedy greats - Mackendrick's The Ladykillers (1955) and Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).
Terence Davies is one of Britain's most accomplished and respected film directors. His debut feature, Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), was named one of the 100 greatest British films of the 20th century in the BFI's 1999 poll. His critically-acclaimed later films include The Long Day Closes (1992), The House of Mirth (2000) and The Deep Blue Sea (2011).
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[@HourofPoop]

This is simply wonderful! What a joy to watch.

[@britishfilminstitute]

Thanks for your comment! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@trimmertm]

Just love Terence Davies. One of the old school and what a wonderful voice.

[@bmgm3]

Nice touch having Katie Johnson's name alongside Guiness's for the Ladykillers , like that a lot.

[@algie-t2w]

I love Terence Davies he speaks with such love about the same films that I also love.

[@dominicangadi]

You know there are two endings, one for the American audience who needed the point hammered home.

[@GEricG]

Oh couldn't agree more about Kind Hearts and Coronets. A peerless film.

[@gojixkong]

I was so pleased to hear Terrence Davies pick Kind Hearts and Coronets as absolutely magnificent as the Ladykillers was. Kind Hearts was special and definitely Dennis Price’s finest film.

[@ferhatk.9478]

His laughs made me love Kind Hearts even more. :-)

[@thecinematicmind]

Rest in Peace
Terence Davies
1945-2023

[@Northenstar13]

I love the work off Terence Davies. Just Great.

[@FungusMossGnosis]

I know precisely what he means about remembering certain black and white movies as having been in color. I often remember them in color.
That was a very good choice to intersperse 'Distant Voices / Still Lives' excerpts throughout this.
Only wish he could have talked about more than two. 'The Man in the White Suit' and 'Whiskey Galore' are every bit as worthy.

[@zetectic7968]

2 wonderful films, always a joy to watch.
In case you missed it the journalist from Titbits Magazine in the ending clip is none other than Arthur Lowe

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

I love British movies from this era.. The Ladykillers is a great movie. Miles was brilliant in The Titfield Thunderbolt.
These character actors were the cement of all great movies... my favourite bit part player was Sam Kydd... he appeared in more movies than any other British actor.

[@ronaldcollinsproductions8240]

My Era
Ealing comedies were the best in the late forties and fifties The Ladykillers and Kind Hearts and Coronets
such a beautiful directed by Robert Hamer, and as for the script just wonderful,
I was quite young when the films came out 7 and 13 respectively
Don't make or cant make films like this today

[@elizabethlinsay9193]

As an actor, I would love to work with Terence Davies! An actor's director.

[@jeffjacobson59]

Kind Hearts is my Citizen Kane