Region 4 Winners and Losers

     Of Time and the City has been released in Region 1 in the United States. Extras include interviews with Terence Davies, producers Roy Boulter and Sol Papadopoulos, executive producer Lisa Marie Russo and editor Liza Ryan-Carter. Other featurettes include On the Set with Terence Davies, In the Editing Room with Terence Davies and Highlights, which are out-takes and the theatrical trailer. Overall, the extras run for about 36 minutes.

     The Region 2 BFI United Kingdom release has more substantive extras. Firstly, there's The Making of Of Time and the City (45:37) which has interviews with Terence Davies, producers Roy Boulter and Sol Papadopoulos, and archive producer Jim Anderson. Secondly, Davies provides an introduction to the 1942 film by Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister, Listen to Britain, included here, which inspired the making of Davies' documentary (20:28). Q&A with Terence Davies (19:06) is an interview from interviewer Bill Lawrence and an audience at a Q&A at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, the theatrical trailer and finally a 22-page booklet with an essay on the film by Matthew Gandy, a positive critique by Jason Wood, an article by photographer Bernard Fallon, a retrospective look at Davies' cinematic career by Geoff Andrew, a biography, credits for the film, and some production stills.

     The Region 2 BFI UK release, with its quality extras, is the best available Regional release of Terence Davies' Of Time and the City currently available.