Distant Voices, Still Lives trailer - 4K restoration in cinemas 31 August

Newly restored in 4K to mark it’s 30th anniversary, Terence Davies’ acclaimed Distant Voices, Still Lives returns to UK cinemas from 31 August Subscribe: ’A masterpiece’ — Mark Kermode ’A visual tour de force unmatched in British cinema’ — Guardian Thirty years after its initial release, one of the most acclaimed films in British cinema history returns to the big screen in a new 4K digital print restored by the BFI National Archive from the original camera negative. Terence Davies’ partly autobiographical tale evokes his upbringing in Liverpool after the war in a working-class home dominated by the violence of his father, fearsomely played by then newcomer Pete Postlethwaite. Using dynamic lighting, a superb soundtrack and a fragmented structure, Davies constructs a distinctive drama suffused with both beauty and horror. The film was voted the third greatest British film of all-time in a 2011