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Peevemor
23-04-2021, 12:29 PM
... was released 40 years ago today. Crikey!

Great film though.

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/gregorys-girl-the-sweet-teenage-love-story-set-in-scottish-new-town-turns-40-3211109
weecounty hibby
23-04-2021, 12:35 PM
I love Claire Grogan! There I've said it, feel better now!
HUTCHYHIBBY
23-04-2021, 12:40 PM
... was released 40 years ago today. Crikey!

Chernobyl, 35 years ago on Monday, scary stuff!
Moulin Yarns
23-04-2021, 02:56 PM
Good bit on the afternoon show, bbc radio Scotland now. Claire and Bill forsyth chatting.
hibsbollah
23-04-2021, 05:18 PM
Chic Murray was my favourite, brief cameo role as the headmaster.
Peevemor
23-04-2021, 05:34 PM
I love Claire Grogan! There I've said it, feel better now!She blew into my bagpipes once.
AFKA5814_Hibs
23-04-2021, 05:35 PM
Remember going to the Dominion to watch it with my school class when it came out, must have been in P6 or P7. Watched it again just a couple of weeks back on BBC Scotland channel. Loads of great one-liners. Love the music that's played throughout the film as well.
Wilson
23-04-2021, 05:36 PM
She blew into my bagpipes once.

What an odd euphemism.
Peevemor
23-04-2021, 06:23 PM
What an odd euphemism.I wish it was.
Hibrandenburg
23-04-2021, 08:23 PM
She blew into my bagpipes once.

Fnar Fnar!
heretoday
23-04-2021, 09:21 PM
I love Claire Grogan! There I've said it, feel better now!

I found her annoying at the time but very nice now. It's a film that improves with age.
hibsbollah
23-04-2021, 09:42 PM
I found her annoying at the time but very nice now. It's a film that improves with age.

Probably sacrilege to say so, but I think the opposite. I watched it recently and by modern standards the pace of the storytelling is painfully slow.

Restless Natives holds up much better from the same era.
lord bunberry
24-04-2021, 08:37 AM
Probably sacrilege to say so, but I think the opposite. I watched it recently and by modern standards the pace of the storytelling is painfully slow.

Restless Natives holds up much better from the same era.
Restless Natives was brilliant, I’ll have to try and watch that again. Does anyone know anywhere it can be viewed online?
Billy Whizz
24-04-2021, 08:59 AM
Good bit on the afternoon show, bbc radio Scotland now. Claire and Bill forsyth chatting.

Forsyth directed/produced a few great Scottish movies
Always loved Local Hero, and the beautiful locations and haunting music
Peevemor
24-04-2021, 10:44 AM
Forsyth directed/produced a few great Scottish movies
Always loved Local Hero, and the beautiful locations and haunting musicAgree 100% re. Local Hero.

That Sinking Feeling was a great film too, although given that I haven't seen it in about 30 years, I've no idea how well it's aged.
hibsbollah
24-04-2021, 04:18 PM
Restless Natives was brilliant, I’ll have to try and watch that again. Does anyone know anywhere it can be viewed online?

Netflix 👍
Keith_M
25-04-2021, 09:34 AM
Probably sacrilege to say so, but I think the opposite. I watched it recently and by modern standards the pace of the storytelling is painfully slow.

Restless Natives holds up much better from the same era.


I prefer Restless Natives myself, but they're just different types of movies, and (IMUO) the 'pace' of Gregory's Girl suits the storyline.
O'Rourke3
28-04-2021, 05:45 PM
Restless Natives was brilliant, I’ll have to try and watch that again. Does anyone know anywhere it can be viewed online?BBC Scotland showed all of these at Christmas. Still on few on my DVR. I enjoyed the film when it came out but remain confused by the big escalator in St Andrew Square bus station (Glasgow Buchanan Street) and the fact everyone in the scheme was Glaswegian

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Hibs Class
28-04-2021, 07:38 PM
Remember going to the Dominion to watch it with my school class when it came out, must have been in P6 or P7. Watched it again just a couple of weeks back on BBC Scotland channel. Loads of great one-liners. Love the music that's played throughout the film as well.

IIRC the EEN cinema listings recorded that Gregory’s Girl was in its 60th week, etc. I eventually saw it at the Dominion over a year after general release and I think the screen only had about a dozen seats.
degenerated
02-05-2021, 04:31 PM
Agree 100% re. Local Hero.

That Sinking Feeling was a great film too, although given that I haven't seen it in about 30 years, I've no idea how well it's aged.I watched it a few years back and still thought it funny.

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lapsedhibee
02-05-2021, 05:39 PM
Forsyth directed/produced a few great Scottish movies
Always loved Local Hero, and the beautiful locations and haunting music

Can't at the moment think of a better film. Impossible to say how good it would have seemed without Knopfler's score though.
JeMeSouviens
03-05-2021, 09:52 AM
I still count seconds in elephants, so I guess that's a lasting legacy. :greengrin
Hibs Class
03-05-2021, 11:21 AM
I still count seconds in elephants, so I guess that's a lasting legacy. :greengrin

It's where I learned how fast a sneeze is!
Peevemor
03-05-2021, 11:27 AM
It's where I learned how fast a sneeze is!

And why I want to move to Caracas.
JeMeSouviens
03-05-2021, 04:33 PM
And why I want to move to Caracas.

:greengrin ... and you've spelled it right!