This is every bit as enjoyable as gregorys girl, local hero or that sinking feeling three other bill forsyth classics i love and own. Forsyth s next film was the 1984 comfort and joy, about a glasgow radio dj caught in a rivalry between ice cream companies, which again featured clare grogan. I had the comfort of sending my slides in and getting them back in a timely manner. Any information provided in this contact form may be processed by itg in accordance with itgs privacy notice name. However the offbeat sensibility on display here is ultimately distinctively that of scottish filmmaker bill forsyth gregorys girl, that sinking feeling, comfort and joy, housekeeping.
Bill forsyths movie is a glorious christmas movie as well as a glorious movie in its own right. That is, if you get director bill forsyth s quirky and dry humour. I recently downloaded photos from my 3rd order to digmypics, as well as a digital copy of a. Bill paterson, eleanor david, clare grogan, alex norton, patrick malahide, rikki fulton, roberto bernardi, george rossi, peter. Alan bird bill paterson, outlander, dads army thinks he has life pretty well organised. Bill paterson, eleanor david, clare grogan, alex norton en patrick malahide. Its a joy to search through all the images that bring back old memories from all over the. Glasgows top dj, with a nice apartment, and the only red bmw. It would be great if someone released the directors comfort and joy light. Bill forsyth made that sinking feeling, gregorys girl and local hero three of the finest british comedies of modern times. Alan bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by. Bill paterson, patrick malahide, eleanor david, clare grogan, alex norton, rikki fulton, roberto bernardi, george rossi, peter. With bill paterson, eleanor david, clare grogan, alex norton. Private investigations speaks very eloquently of this phenomenon.
Some bombed, some were panned, and some sank without trace, but. There are passages in comfort and joy which are utterly dreamlike. Bill forsyth on gregorys girl interview, bill forsyth. Comfort and joy features jane, the main character, who is extremely materialistic. After he witnesses an attack on an ice cream van by angry competitors, he is led into the struggle between two italian families over the ice cream market of glasgow. Comfort and joy is a 1984 scottish comedy film written and directed by bill forsyth and starring bill paterson as a radio disc jockey whose life undergoes a bizarre upheaval after his girlfriend leaves him. Oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy fear not, then said the angel,let nothing you affright this day is born a saviour of pure virgin bright. The album contains music composed for the 1984 film comfort and joy, written and directed by bill forsyth. Visit calendar comfort and joy museum of the moving image. One christmas eve she gets in a car accident and it changes her life forever.
I love the bill forsyth movie gregorys girl and for a personal project a couple of years ago i visited the filming locations in cumbernauld near glasgow. The 1987 film housekeeping, an adaptation of marilynne robinsons 1981 novel, was forsyth s first american work. Through this event she learns the true meaning of christmas. Comfort and joy is a soundtrack album by british singersongwriter and guitarist mark knopfler, released in 1984 by vertigo records. She wakes up with a completely different life and must adjust.
Mark knopfler joy from comfort and joy official video. Joy is taken from the original soundtrack of the 1984 scottish comedy film comfort and joy directed by bill forsyth and starring bill paterson. This was forsyth s allegedly last decent movie before making the move to hollywood where things went awry. He made movies often thinly disguised as comedy, but with a heart of deep alienation and loneliness. This song was also modified by mark knopfler into a film score for the bill forsyth movie comfort and joy. Comfort and joy is a 1984 scottish comedy film written and directed by bill forsyth and starring bill paterson as a radio disc jockey whose life undergoes a.
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