Distant Voices, Still Lives trailer 4 K 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 workingclass 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 alltime in a 2011