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Offbeat British directors defying realist expectations fare well in poll, but Hitchcock dominates

"Benediction," Terence Davies' achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure. The pleasure and the sadness are inextricable, which seems fitting, given how closely aesthetic bliss and moral despair were entwined in Sassoon's own art. In furious,…

In Terence Davies’ “Benediction,” a moving portrait of English war poet Siegfried Sassoon, the blessing bestowed is both literal and cinematic. While older Siegfried (Peter Capaldi) receives a blessing from a priest while converting to Catholicism, much to the chagrin of his adult son, George (Richard Goulding), the true benediction…

The war poet’s life provides rich material for director Terence Davies to explore his preoccupations with sexuality, religion and the search for redemption

Antony Blinken demanded that Russia lift its blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and suggested the Kremlin was using food as a weapon

As his Siegfried Sassoon biopic is released, the director opens up about his ill-fated straight romance, being snubbed by Bafta and how it felt to sleep in the bed where his father died

Terence Davies’ mercurial portrait of the WWI poet is, at times, ferociously good

Inspired by the life of Siegfried Sassoon, Terence Davies’s evocative drama is no cradle-to-grave biopic

Siegfried Sassoon remains one of the most influential war poets for his brutally honest depictions of the realities of war which still hold up more than 100 years after he wrote them