“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 ...

Today (11 November) marks Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, which means a chance to stop and think about those ...

Davies follows his Emily Dickinson biopic "A Quiet Passion" with another painfully tender film about a kindred spirit. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2021 Toronto ...

Nearly a dozen notebooks and journals by the author, who fought in the British Army during the war, are being released to coincide with the... Nearly two dozen diaries and notebooks of Siegfried ...

The hell where youth and laughter go. A decorated veteran of the Western Front before he turned conscientious objector, Sassoon knew of what he spoke. Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber ...

In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the armistice of World War I, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will host the temporary display “Siegfried Sassoon: Scrapbook & Owen Johnson: ...

Scott Simon talks with director Terence Davies about the new film "Benediction." It's on the life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon, one of the leading poets of World War I. Lt. Siegfried Sassoon was ...

The problem with most films about writers is that they’re so concerned with biographical data and dramatic comings and goings that there’s no room left for words, which aren’t just an author’s stock ...

Terence Davies, that most meticulous of auteurs, returns to the Toronto International Film Festival with “Benediction,” a lush biopic of Siegfried Sassoon, the poet and decorated veteran who became an ...