It's a mesmerizing contrast, as the curtain rises for Gibson's beautifully gloomy and arresting meditations on life and death.

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Six days a week you can watch some of the rarities among the museum's 23, 000 film titles in its Dryden Theatre -- a 500-seat jewel-box with a real curtain that rises to uncover the screen before each showing.

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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.

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