Fyodorov wanted to hear a melody in an orchestra and to watch a spectacle in a theatre, so as to have some understanding in his soul about the truth of life and to see the universal horizon.

NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants

In an empty theatre, a curtain rises on an unusual kind of show: archival footage of life in the streets of Liverpool, where the director, Terence Davies (who was born in 1945), grew up, and which he both celebrates and mourns in this personal, essaylike documentary of urban reminiscences.

NEWYORKER: Of Time and the City