Bill Forsyth Trailers
"I Thought Maybe I'd Get to Meet Alan Whicker": A Conversation with Bill Forsyth TrailerShooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman TrailerThe Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends) Trailer
Bill Forsyth (born 29 July 1946, Glasgow) is a Scottish film director and writer, noted for his commitment to national film-making. Forsyth first came to attention with a low-budget film, That Sinking Feeling, made with youth theatre actors and featuring a cameo appearance by the Edinburgh gallery owner Richard Demarco. The relative success of the film was carried to a far higher level by his next film Gregory's Girl in 1981. This featured some of the same young actors, in particular John Gordon Sinclair, as well as the acting debut of Clare Grogan. The film was a major hit and won 'Best Screenplay' in that year's BAFTA Awards. In 1983 he wrote and directed the successful Local Hero, produced by David Puttnam, and featuring Burt Lancaster. It was rated in the top 100 films of the 1980s in a Premiere magazine recap of the decade. Forsyth's next film was the 1984 Comfort and Joy, about a Glasgow radio DJ caught between rival ice cream companies, which again featured Clare Grogan. When Puttnam went to Hollywood, Forsyth followed, but had limited success. The 1987 Housekeeping was his first American film. Another movie, Being Human, was shelved by the studio for four years after Puttnam was ousted. Gregory's Two Girls from 2000 appeared as a sequel to Gregory's Girl, with John Gordon Sinclair playing the same character, but it received mixed reviews. In a June 2009 interview on BBC Radio 5 Live, Forsyth stated that he is currently working on a new film project with the working title of Exile.
Most Popular Bill Forsyth Trailers
Total trailers found: 28
31 December 1985
A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'.
23 March 1976
A look at how the landscape of the Scottish Highlands has been shaped by man.
09 February 1969
A young artist struggles to seek inspiration from a slowly crumbling cityscape.
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01 January 1974
A look at the manufacture and use of Polar diesel engines.
13 November 1978
A documentary profile of three Scottish screenwriters: Edward Boyd, Gordon Williams and Alan Sharp.
06 May 1994
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
31 December 1986
An interview for Scottish television of film director Bill Forsyth
17 February 1983
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery.
22 November 1981
Captain 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.
14 August 1984
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors.
31 December 1983
Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
29 November 1980
A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.
01 January 1966
A look at English people who have made their home in Scotland.
25 November 1987
In 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.
09 February 1971
A documentary, edited by Bill Forsyth, promoting the proposed development of Glasgow in the 1970s.
01 January 1972
The industries of the Scottish Highlands.
01 January 1970
A young would-be writer searches the street of Glasgow for his missing girlfriend.
13 October 1989
Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.
01 October 1980
Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea.
15 October 1999
Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English.
01 January 1972
A look at Scotland's first country park.
26 September 2010
Abraham 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.
29 August 1972
A tour of the landscape and wildlife of the Western Isles in Scotland.
01 January 1968
The life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
01 January 1971
The story of Harris Tweed and its Hebridean homeland.
01 January 1970
A portrait of the Scottish artist Sir William Gillies.
01 January 1974
Highland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel construction of boats.
01 January 1967
The scenery and wildlife around Loch Lomond, Scotland, and the people who live and work there.
