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

Airline seats are a perishable commodity an empty seat becomes a worthless asset once the plane takes off and this fact of aviation life has sometimes led to ruinous price-cutting.

WSJ: Book Review: Attention All Passengers

The typical landscape of a Newman film was the raw sidestreets of a city or the empty plains, in which a man would try to get a grip on an aimless, violent life.

ECONOMIST: Paul Newman