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23 de abr. de 2015 · My Ebertfest has already been made for me because I spoke to Bill Forsyth yesterday and, at one point, he said "Great." This is major — particularly for a guy who, with his friends, went around saying "Great" in Gordon John Sinclair's Scottish accent from "Gregory's Girl" for years. It's a well-known fact.
Bill Forsyth put Scottish cinema on the map with this delightfully eccentric culture-clash comedy. Riffing on popular representations of Scottish life and folklore, Local Hero follows the Texas oil executive Mac (Peter Riegert), who is dispatched by his crackpot boss (Burt Lancaster) to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery.
28 de oct. de 2004 · Endnotes. For nearly all of this information on Forsyth’s early life and the beginnings of his career in cinema, I am indebted to Allan Hunter’s biographical piece “Bill Forsyth: The Imperfect Anarchist” in Eddie Dick (ed.), From Limelight to Satellite, BFI and Scottish Film Council, London, 1990, pp. 151–162.The anecdote concerning the heavy lifting at the job interview is taken ...
Bill Forsyth. Director: Local Hero. Bill Forsyth was born on 29 July 1946 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Local Hero (1983), Gregory's Girl (1980) and Housekeeping (1987).
17 de feb. de 2023 · Local Hero is a very easy film to love. Forsyth has a keen understanding of Scottishness, both as it’s presented to the rest of the world and in how locals confront those expectations. The humor ...
24 de sept. de 2019 · B ill Forsyth is Scotland’s most famous filmmaker, and Local Hero (1983) is his most famous film—for many, the true subject of Local Hero’s title is the Glasgow-born writer-director himself. The enduring affection and adulation for Local Hero stem from the way the film testifies, thematically and tonally, to the impressive scale and subtlety of Forsyth’s filmmaking talent.
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.
