Bill Forsyth
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KH-4
Feb 09, 1969A young artist struggles to seek inspiration from a slowly crumbling cityscape.
Moving Image Archive: http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/3631
Drama
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Dec 31, 1985A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in television and film. Featuring interviews with Bill Forsyth, Bill Paterson, Ken Loach, Neil Jordan, and Jeremy Isaacs.
Documentary
The South Bank Show: 'Local Hero'
Feb 27, 1983A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
Documentary
An interview for Scottish television of film director Bill Forsyth
Documentary
Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
Documentary
Comfort and Joy
Aug 14, 1984Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Comedy
Local hero
Feb 17, 1983Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Comedy
Une fille pour Gregory
Apr 23, 1981Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Comedy
Une fille pour Gregory
Apr 23, 1981Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Comedy
That Sinking Feeling
Oct 01, 1980Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion-potion.
Comedy
Gregory's Two Girls
Oct 15, 1999Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend.
Comedy
Housekeeping
Nov 25, 1987In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Comedy
Housekeeping
Nov 25, 1987In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Comedy
Les mille et une vies d'Hector
May 06, 1994In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Drama
Les mille et une vies d'Hector
May 06, 1994In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Drama
Ernie Et Mike : Pied de biche et coffre fort
Oct 13, 1989In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Action
Andrina
Nov 22, 1981Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the dark winter, he is grateful for her kindness and company. But as she starts to enquire about his past, he worries about the long-held secret he'll have to reveal to her.
Drama
Gregory's Two Girls
Oct 15, 1999Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend.
Comedy
KH-4
Feb 09, 1969A young artist struggles to seek inspiration from a slowly crumbling cityscape.
Moving Image Archive: http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/3631
Drama
Islands of the West
Aug 29, 1972A tour of the landscape and wildlife of the Western Isles in Scotland.
Documentary
Glasgow 1980
Feb 09, 1971A documentary, edited by Bill Forsyth, promoting the proposed development of Glasgow in the 1970s.
That Sinking Feeling
Oct 01, 1980Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion-potion.
Comedy
That Sinking Feeling
Oct 01, 1980Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion-potion.
Comedy
Island of the Big Cloth
Jan 01, 1971Highlands
Jan 01, 1972The Smiths in Scotland
Jan 01, 1966Loch Lomond
Jan 01, 1967The scenery and wildlife around Loch Lomond, Scotland, and the people who live and work there.
Documentary
Mackintosh
Jan 01, 1968The life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Documentary
The Beast Pageant
Sep 26, 2010Abraham lives deep in the heart of an industrial wasteland. His only companion is a giant machine. Inside the machine is a man and a woman who take care of Abraham's every need. Abraham drifts through daily life until a tiny singing cowboy bursts from his stomach and leads him into the wild.
Fantasy
A Place in the Country: Renfrewshire Regional Park
Jan 01, 1972A look at Scotland's first country park.
Documentary
Polar Power
Jan 01, 1974Still Life with Honesty
Jan 01, 1970Still Life with Honesty
Jan 01, 1970Andrina
Nov 22, 1981Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the dark winter, he is grateful for her kindness and company. But as she starts to enquire about his past, he worries about the long-held secret he'll have to reveal to her.
Drama
Comfort and Joy
Aug 14, 1984Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Comedy
Local hero
Feb 17, 1983Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Comedy
Shapes In The Water
Jan 01, 1974Highland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel construction of boats. Footage of ferries, fishing boats, power boats, and sailing boats.
Documentary
The Living Land
Mar 23, 1976A look at how the landscape of the Scottish Highlands has been shaped by man.
Documentary
The Living Land
Mar 23, 1976A look at how the landscape of the Scottish Highlands has been shaped by man.
Documentary
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Dec 10, 2011Une visite guidée mondiale des plus grands films jamais réalisés et l'histoire du cinéma international à travers l'histoire de l'innovation cinématographique.
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