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- Bill Forsyth, the movie director responsible for reviving the Scottish film industry in the 1980s, is to make his first film in 10 years. The director of cult classics Gregory's Girl and Local Hero is currently writing the screenplay for Exile, a historical epic set in Scotland and America.
www.thetimes.com/article/forsyth-back-in-films-after-10-years-3czghx03wwn
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Aug 14, 2023 · One of the great injustices of the British film industry over the last 25 years is that there has been no place in it for the cockeyed perspective of Scottish director Bill Forsyth. His last film was 1999’s Gregory’s 2 Girls, a belated sequel to his breakthrough second feature, and its critical mauling seemed to put a stake through his career.
Forsyth went to the local youth theatre to find some actors for his movie, but the British Film Institute declined to fund it (they said it was too commercial) so Gregory’s Girl hit the...
William David Forsyth (born 29 July 1946), known as Bill Forsyth, is a Scottish film director and writer known for his films Gregory's Girl (1981), Local Hero (1983) and Comfort and Joy (1984) as well as his adaptation of the Marilynne Robinson novel Housekeeping (1987).
In advance of Forsyth’s visit to New York for the screenings of his work, I spoke to the director about the Scottish film industry and how he got his start. NOTEBOOK: What has it been like revisiting your older work?
- By Christopher Meir
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Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources Long before Ewan McGregor climbed into a toilet looking for heroin suppositories or Mel Gibson mooned the English army, when one thought of Scottish cinema, only one name came to mind: Bill Forsyth. A true pioneer, Forsyth became the small nation’s first internationally recognised filmmaker and helped t...
Growing up, Bill Forsyth was not overly interested in cinema. He instead credits literature as being the most important influence on his imagination as a child. This changed one day when a teenage Forsyth fatefully came across an advertisement in the local paper seeking assistants for the Thames and Clyde Film Production Company. Assuming that ther...
Although he indicated during the making of Comfort and Joy that he found the idea of working in America unappealing, saying it would involve “too many compromises” (9), Forsyth nonetheless came to North America in 1986 to begin production on Housekeeping (1987). In doing so the filmmaker ushered in a new period in his career, one that would see him...
It would be six years before Forsyth would again bring a film to the screen. To do so he returned to filmmaking in Scotland after a 15 year hiatus (14). The project this time would be a sequel to the film that made his name 18 years earlier: Gregory’s Two Girls (1999). We catch up with Gregory (once again played by John Gordon Sinclair) in his mid-...
- Christopher Meir
Bill Forsyth was born William David Forsyth in Glasgow on 29 July 1946 and educated at Knightswood School. On leaving school, aged 17, he answered an advertisement for a "Lad required for film company" and spent the next eight years making short documentary films.
Feb 17, 2023 · Filmmaker Bill Forsyth, who made documentary shorts before his debut, made That Sinking Feeling on a paltry budget of around £5,000. The cast was entirely non-professional young actors from...
