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I met up with director Bill Forsyth at the recent Shetland Film Festival where he showed me some extraordinary never-before-seen documents showing how he financed his first film That Sinking Feeling.
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Harry Limes Shadow14th September 2012 - 17:50
This just proves that the most creative part of film making is raising the money. A film could be made about the making of That Sinking Feeling, Bill's matter-of-fact approach to financing and budgeting would make this the great film Ealing never made. This has to be one of the best Kermode Uncut blogs in ages. These kind of little background stories are things you never read about and may get briefly alluded to on the DVD commentary but never get such detailed attention.
Christopher Nolan shot his first feature on weekends with a group of non-professionals and probably financed on his credit card and like Bill it was enough to get him noticed and launched his career.
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fuzzyian14th September 2012 - 18:19
That was excellent
What is Bill up to these days?
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Phud14th September 2012 - 19:09
Whatever happened to John Gordon Sinclair? Just like the Elephant Man, Ghandi and Ali G, he made that one movie and disappeared. Clare Grogan was in Altered Images - a Scottish jingly-jangly pop group she fronted in the early 80s; she used to sing like Violet Elizabeth Bott having a paddy in a variety of fetching hats.
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Patch Adams 198114th September 2012 - 22:08
#2 Buying more meet !
On a slightly of topic note, i ve fianly got around to watchung Iron Sky, great fun, its Carry on Flash Gorden with space Nazis.
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Freddy_Jones15th September 2012 - 0:27
Blimey! I always love these blogs, but this is one of the most fascinating things I've seen in ages.
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