Films About Scots & Scotland
D. Spencer Hines
Classics...
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Peter Jason
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Renia
> Which are the Best Ones?
>
> Classics...
>
Greyfriars Bobby
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_I Know Where I'm Going_ is one of my favorites.
DSH
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Only Brigadoon will give you the real Scotland.
F.
Josiah Jenkins
these words from "Peter Jason" <p...@jostle.com> :
A more suitable group for Heinz and fans
Josiah Jenkins
these words from Renia <re...@DELETEotenet.gr> :
>Greyfriars Bobby
A more suitable group for Heinz and fans
Josiah Jenkins
words from "a.spencer3" <a.spe...@ntlworld.com> :
Andrew Chaplin
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> Whisky Galore!
That was my second choice. My first is "Tunes of Glory."
--
Andrew Chaplin
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D. Spencer Hines
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Renia
Why? It's a thread about films about Scotland. Can't you think of any?
Bryn
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> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:28:09 -0000, "D. Spencer Hines"> In no particular order...
> Trainspotting
> Gregory's Girl
> Comfort and Joy
> Restless Natives
> That Sinking Feeling
> Local Hero
> The Wicker Man (specially for Cory)
> etc.
Trainspotting is a class black comedy and a perpetual favorite. The
opening monologue was perfectly done by Ewan MacGregor:
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a
fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc
players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low
cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage
repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose
leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire
purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who
the fuck you are on Sunday night. Choose sitting on that couch
watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking
junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all,
pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an
embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace
yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to
do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin'
else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when
you've got heroin?
Cory Bhreckan
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:28:09 -0000, "D. Spencer Hines"
> Trainspotting
> Gregory's Girl
> Comfort and Joy
> Restless Natives
> That Sinking Feeling
> Local Hero
> The Wicker Man (specially for Cory)
You're EVIL!
> etc.
>
Sweet Sixteen
Breaking the Waves
The Last King of Scotland
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall
The Highlander
Called "Tight Little Island" in North America.
The Highlander
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>> Whisky Galore!
>
>That was my second choice. My first is "Tunes of Glory."
"The Maggie". About a puffer (a small coastal vessel) on the Scottish
West Coast.
TrainsSpotting - a really brutal movie about drug addicts in Edinburgh
Top Scottish movies here:
William Black
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> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:29:04 -0400, "Andrew Chaplin"
> <ab.ch...@yourfinger.rogers.com> wrote:
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>>"a.spencer3" <a.spe...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>>> Whisky Galore!
>>
>>That was my second choice. My first is "Tunes of Glory."
>
> "The Maggie". About a puffer (a small coastal vessel) on the Scottish
> West Coast.
>
> TrainsSpotting - a really brutal movie about drug addicts in Edinburgh
There are really only two movies of any real artistic merit that are set and
filmed in Scotland
Tunes of Glory, which could be about any regiment, and The Wicker Man,
which is actually about English rather than Scottish pagan traditions.
'Trainspotting' is a novel that was made into a film, and as such will
always fail to impress many readers of the novel.
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Barbeques on fire by chalets past the headland
I've watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off Newborough
All this will pass like ice-cream on the beach
Time for tea
D. Spencer Hines
Now that sounds really interesting. Tell us more.
New Subject:
How about a film in which Lagavulin stars in a subordinate, but essential,
role.
Surely there must be one of those. <g>
Do tell us WHY these are such Great & Classic Scottish Films as well -- not
just the titles.
DSH
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> "The Maggie". About a puffer (a small coastal vessel) on the Scottish
> West Coast.
Paul C
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>On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:28:09 -0000, "D. Spencer Hines"
><pogue...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Which are the Best Ones?
>>
>>Classics...
>>
>In no particular order...
>Trainspotting
>Gregory's Girl
>Comfort and Joy
>Restless Natives
>That Sinking Feeling
>Local Hero
>The Wicker Man (specially for Cory)
>etc.
My Name is Joe
Sweet Sixteen
Paul C
<pogue...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "The Maggie".
>
>Now that sounds really interesting. Tell us more.
>
>New Subject:
>
>How about a film in which Lagavulin stars in a subordinate, but essential,
>role.
Well 'The Maggie' was filmed largely on and around Islay, home of
Lagavulin.
D. Spencer Hines
interesting People & Nation as Scotland.
Another one is _The Edge of the World_ -- some marvelous insights about
Human Nature in that Michael Powell film ....
As well as Superb Cinematography and Character Study -- against a marvelous
backdrop.
---------------------------------------------
"Michael Powell broke with a decade of B movies with this personal project
shot on the North Sea island of Foula, a magnificent, primal landscape of
high, rocky inland plains and sheer cliffs jutting out of the sea like a
dare.
He renamed the island Hirta for this fictional story (based on the real-life
evacuation of the island of St. Kilda) of an isolated community's
traditional way of life slowly dying as the young men are drawn to the
modern cities of the mainland.
John Laurie and Finlay Currie play the two family patriarchs who struggle
over the future of the island community, and Powell himself appears as the
yachtsman in a framing sequence.
The romantic melodrama at the heart of the tale turns on a breathtaking race
up the sheer cliffs and the grudge it sparks when one of the climbers falls
to his death." ---- Amazon Review
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Surely some of the Real Scots here love this film and can tell us more.
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
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Deeeelightful!
It seems to be available in Region 1 in this package:
Ealing Studios Comedy Collection (The Maggie / A Run for Your Money /
Titfield Thunderbolt / Whisky Galore! / Passport to Pimlico) (1949)
Starring: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Price: $69.98 & this item ships for FREE with Super SaverShipping.
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_The Maggie_ even has a Yale Graduate, Paul Douglas, in it. <g>
What's the verdict on the other films in that package?
AND what's the best pronunciation of ISLAY?...
There seems to be a Great Deal of Disagreement about that.
I generally tend to go with the pronunciation of the folks who live there,
when possible.
DSH
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Paul C
<pogue...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Fantastic!
>
>Deeeelightful!
>
>It seems to be available in Region 1 in this package:
>
>Ealing Studios Comedy Collection (The Maggie / A Run for Your Money /
>Titfield Thunderbolt / Whisky Galore! / Passport to Pimlico) (1949)
>
>Starring: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie Director: Alexander Mackendrick
>Price: $69.98 & this item ships for FREE with Super SaverShipping.
>-------------------------------------------
>
>_The Maggie_ even has a Yale Graduate, Paul Douglas, in it. <g>
>
>What's the verdict on the other films in that package?
Passport to Pimlico is a very British comedy with a fine cast - it's
about a working class district of London which discovers that under an
unrepealed charter it is legally part of Burgundy
Titfield Thunderbolt is also worth viewing - a comedy about a battle
to keep open a small (steam) railway line
$70 seems very steep!
>
>AND what's the best pronunciation of ISLAY?...
Eye - la
D. Spencer Hines
O.K.
Thank you kindly.
Is there a consensus on that?
Is that what the natives of Islay call it?
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My concern about the $70 package is that the transfers to DVD may be bad --
just copied versions from tape and not cleaned up and digitized properly
from a master with Surround Sound added, et al.
The sound on a number of British films on DVD is absolutely appalling and
primitive by 2007 standards.
DSH
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> Only Brigadoon will give you the real Scotland.
That was my beloved grandmother's favorite movie. Can you explain
further?
Jane Margaret Laight
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> Which are the Best Ones?
>
> Classics...
>
>
> Lux et Veritas et Libertas
There are many good movies about Scots and Scotland; we had a long
thread on that in scs about eleven months ago. Here's my revised list
of my top ten movies about Scots (or with Scots actors):
1. A River Runs Through It
2. Local Hero
3. Trainspotting
4. Last King of Scotland
5. Tunes of Glory
6. Mrs Brown
7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
8. Bill Douglas's Trilogy: My Childhood, My Ain Folk, My Way Home
9. My Name Is Joe
10. So I Married An Axe Murderer
honorable mention: The Master of Ballantrae, A Man Called Peter,
Bonnie Scotland, The Wicker Man (With Christopher Lee), Stella Does
Tricks, Robin and Marian
And movies that are set in Scotland (some duplication):
1. Local Hero
2. I Know Where I'm Going
3. Whisky Galore
4. The Maggie
5. Venus Peter
6. Comfort and Joy
7. Trainspotting
8. Alfred Hitchcock's Thirty-Nine Steps
9. Tickets for the Zoo
10. Bill Douglas's Trilogy: My Childhood, My Ain Folk, My Way Home
break out the popcorn--
JML
Robert Peffers.
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http://www.scotlandthemovie.com/movies/ffilms.html
you will get a comprehensive alphabetic list of Scotland as featured in the
movies, or movie sequences shot in Scotland. The list is surprisingly long.
--
Robert Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).
Renia
> On Mar 23, 12:28 am, "D. Spencer Hines" <poguemid...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Which are the Best Ones?
>>
>>Classics...
>>
>>DSH
>>
>>Lux et Veritas et Libertas
>
>
> There are many good movies about Scots and Scotland; we had a long
> thread on that in scs about eleven months ago. Here's my revised list
> of my top ten movies about Scots (or with Scots actors):
> 7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Ah, yes, excellent.
D. Spencer Hines
lists.
Have you Scots seen it?
DSH
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D. Spencer Hines
I'm looking for CLASSICS -- not just a list of all the films made in
Scotland or with Scots in them.
Imagine you are going to be stranded at some remote site for TEN years and
want to be able to watch the TEN BEST films concerning Scots & Scotland.
Which TEN would you want to have?
DSH
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Doc Aay
Doc
Cory Bhreckan
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:37:02 GMT, Cory Bhreckan
> <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Custos Custodum wrote:
>>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:28:09 -0000, "D. Spencer Hines"
>>> <pogue...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Which are the Best Ones?
>>>>
>>>> Classics...
>>>>
>>> In no particular order...
>>> Trainspotting
>>> Gregory's Girl
>>> Comfort and Joy
>>> Restless Natives
>>> That Sinking Feeling
>>> Local Hero
>>> The Wicker Man (specially for Cory)
>> You're EVIL!
>>
> shots, anyway.
>
But the *posterior* wasn't!!!!!!
D. Spencer Hines
most of them fairly recent -- and certainly not Classic Films.
Let's try it this way:
What are the ten best films about Scottish History?
Peter Jason
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"THE BODY SNATCHER"
an expose of the Scottish penchant for
robbing graves to supply medical students
with "body" "parts"!
(The rest of us can go to a tavern and drag
home something "warmer"!)
Here is what a NY time critic said of this
wonderful film-----
PLOT DESCRIPTION
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi were given top
billing in the Val Lewton-produced The Body
Snatcher, but the film's protagonist is
played by Henry Daniell.
A brilliant 18th
century London surgeon, Daniell can only make
his humanitarian medical advances by
experimenting on cadavers, which is strictly
illegal.
Karloff plays a Uriah Heep-type
cabman who is secretly a grave robber,
providing corpses for Daniell's research. The
low-born Karloff enjoys blackmailing the
aristocratic Daniell into silence; the two
actors' cat-and-mouse scenes are among the
film's highlights.
Eventually, Karloff turns
to murder to supply fresh bodies to Daniell.
The doctor can stand no more of this, and
kills Karloff. But though Daniell may be able
to escape the law, he cannot escape his
conscience, which manifests itself in the
voice of the dead Karloff, whose repeated
mantra "NEVER get rid of me! NEVER get rid of
me!" drives Daniell to his death.
Though
billed second, Lugosi has an embarrassingly
small part, though the scene he shares with
Karloff is one of his best-ever screen
moments. The Body Snatcher was based on a
story by Robert Louis Stevenson, which in
turn was inspired by the homicidal career of
notorious grave-robbers Burke and Hare. ~ Hal
Erickson, All Movie Guide
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We need CLASSICS.
DSH
Cory Bhreckan
> ...Aw c'mon, what about
>
> "THE BODY SNATCHER"
>
> an expose of the Scottish penchant for
> robbing graves to supply medical students
> with "body" "parts"!
Both William Burke and William Hare were Oirish
Robert Peffers.
Indeed but the Good Dr. Robert Knox was most certainly a Scot. Anyway Burke
& Hare were NOT tried for grave robbing but for murder.
Contrary to popular belief, Burke and Hare were not grave robbers
but murderers. It is widely believed that after the risk of robbing graves
became too great for them, William Burke and William Hare turned their
thoughts to the more grisly, but more profitable crime of murder. However,
even when on trial for murder, Burke was adamant that neither himself nor
Hare had ever robbed even one grave.
Peter Jason
And the film had a scene where a street waif,
a girl who sang sweetly, was murdered by one
of the duo. Very well done too.
The Highlander
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>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:29:04 -0400, "Andrew Chaplin"
>> <ab.ch...@yourfinger.rogers.com> wrote:
>>
>>>"a.spencer3" <a.spe...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>>>
>>>> Whisky Galore!
>>>
>>>That was my second choice. My first is "Tunes of Glory."
>>
>> "The Maggie". About a puffer (a small coastal vessel) on the Scottish
>> West Coast.
>>
>> TrainsSpotting - a really brutal movie about drug addicts in Edinburgh
>
>There are really only two movies of any real artistic merit that are set and
>filmed in Scotland
>
>Tunes of Glory, which could be about any regiment, and The Wicker Man,
>which is actually about English rather than Scottish pagan traditions.
>
>'Trainspotting' is a novel that was made into a film, and as such will
>always fail to impress many readers of the novel.
For a man who I'm quite certain uses Brylcreem, you seem to have
artistic pretentions. Which sage provides you with your opinions?
D. Spencer Hines
Maggie Smith was superb in _Gosford Park_.
The girls' school where she teaches is set in Edinburgh?
DSH
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> On 24 Mar 2007 05:50:48 -0700, "Jane Margaret Laight"
> I've watched The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie so often that I've
> memorized most of the script by osmosis! Maggie Smith's perfect
> reproduction of the Morningside accent (a posh part of Edinburgh)
> never fails to amaze me! I think this would be my #1 Scottish film.
D. Spencer Hines
DSH
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> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:48:17 +0100, "D. Spencer Hines"
> <pogue...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Sounds worthwhile.
>>
>>Do we get to see much authentic island scenery?
>>
>>Port Ellen?
>>
>>DSH
>
> Port Askaig and Port Charlotte. I don't know about Port Ellen
>
>
> Scottish locations used in films:
>
> http://www.scotlandthemovie.com/movies/ffilms.html
Paul C
<pogue...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I'm going to get that one.
>
>Maggie Smith was superb in _Gosford Park_.
>
>The girls' school where she teaches is set in Edinburgh?
The novel's author, Muriel Spark, attended James Gillespie's High
School for Girls in Edinburgh, and Marcia Blane's School for Girls is
modelled upon this school.
D. Spencer Hines
DSH
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Vince
Vince
Vince
Blaine if you are looking for it
Vince
Jack Linthicum
> D. Spencer Hines wrote:
> > I'm going to get that one.
>
> > Maggie Smith was superb in _Gosford Park_.
>
> > The girls' school where she teaches is set in Edinburgh?
>
> > DSH
>
> >news:533c031tjgud247s9...@4ax.com...
>
> >> On 24 Mar 2007 05:50:48 -0700, "Jane Margaret Laight"
Tight Little Island (Whisky Galore), Local Hero, and one or two more
http://www.scotlandthemovie.com/movies/ffilms.html
including this gem:
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Some of the psychedelic sequences in 2001 A Space Odyssey were filmed
in Scotland.
Eugene Griessel
>
>including this gem:
>2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
>Some of the psychedelic sequences in 2001 A Space Odyssey were filmed
>in Scotland.
So was much of Monty Python's "Holy Grail". In fact almost all of it.
Eugene L Griessel
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings...they did
it by killing all those who opposed them.
a.spencer3
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Surreyman
Andrew Robert Breen
Eugene Griessel <eugene@dynagen..co..za> wrote:
>"Jack Linthicum" <jackli...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>including this gem:
>>2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
>>Some of the psychedelic sequences in 2001 A Space Odyssey were filmed
>>in Scotland.
>
>So was much of Monty Python's "Holy Grail". In fact almost all of it.
I believe that the good Iain (M.) Banks was one of the extras. "Holy
Grail" with Banksian overtures is an idea to savour... |)
--
Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)
William Black
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> In article <4606628...@news.uunet.co.za>,
> Eugene Griessel <eugene@dynagen..co..za> wrote:
>>"Jack Linthicum" <jackli...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>including this gem:
>>>2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
>>>Some of the psychedelic sequences in 2001 A Space Odyssey were filmed
>>>in Scotland.
>>
>>So was much of Monty Python's "Holy Grail". In fact almost all of it.
>
> I believe that the good Iain (M.) Banks was one of the extras. "Holy
> Grail" with Banksian overtures is an idea to savour... |)
Do you mean:
"Something ghastly involving extreme pain and emotional trauma will happen
to the most sympathetic protagonist"
or
"This is all a plot by an vast but usually benevolent interstellar empire to
make the portrayed society progress in the 'correct' manner".
or
Both...
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Barbeques on fire by chalets past the headland
I've watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off Newborough
All this will pass like ice-cream on the beach
Time for tea
<Ru"vvdd@msn.com >
D. Spencer Hines
toothsome.
Paul C
It was her first film.
And she was raised in Scotland too. She went to the same school that
my daughter attended.
D. Spencer Hines
> I've watched The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie so often that I've
> memorized most of the script by osmosis! Maggie Smith's perfect
> reproduction of the Morningside accent (a posh part of Edinburgh)
> never fails to amaze me! I think this would be my #1 Scottish film.
The Highlander
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This does seem to be a remarkable film.
Maggie Smith and Celia Johnson [David Lean's _Brief Encounter_] in the same
film...
Wonderful!
One man in particular recommended this film to me very highly in 1969 or
1970, shortly after he saw it.
But I've never seen it because 1969 was a very busy year for me -- I damn
near got killed, twice.
I've ordered the DVD.
D. Spencer Hines
I'll bet your daughter is beautiful too.
DSH
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Billzz
I was very impressed, as I was a lieutenant at the time, and have always
thought that it should be shown as a "training film," the subject being how
*not* to have a change of command. And why former commanding officers
should be immediately posted to their next assignment. And the US Army
does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunes_of_Glory
D. Spencer Hines
_Twelve O'Clock High_ is another excellent "training film"....
As are _The Wind & The Lion_ [which I understand the Marines use -- in
part], _Tora, Tora, Tora_ and _The Sandpebbles_.
How about _Sands of Iwo Jima_?
DSH
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As well as the United States Navy.
DSH
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunes_of_Glory>
BlackBeard
Nah, as posted before... "So I married an axe murderer" probably best
depicts the displaced Scots that hang on to their long forgotten
fantasies about the homeland and their inability to adapt to the new
world.
TFIC...
BB
I guess everybody has some mountain to climb,
it's just fate whether you live in Tibet or Kansas...
Jack Linthicum
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:22:49 +0530, "William Black"
>
>
>
>
> >"The Highlander" <mich...@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> >> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:29:04 -0400, "Andrew Chaplin"
>
> >>>"a.spencer3" <a.spenc...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> >>>news:OVLMh.17219$NK3....@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...
>
> >>>> Whisky Galore!
>
> >>>That was my second choice. My first is "Tunes of Glory."
>
> >> "The Maggie". About a puffer (a small coastal vessel) on the Scottish
> >> West Coast.
>
> >> TrainsSpotting - a really brutal movie about drug addicts in Edinburgh
>
> >There are really only two movies of any real artistic merit that are set and
> >filmed in Scotland
>
> >Tunes of Glory, which could be about any regiment, and The Wicker Man,
> >which is actually about English rather than Scottish pagan traditions.
>
> >'Trainspotting' is a novel that was made into a film, and as such will
> >always fail to impress many readers of the novel.
>
> For a man who I'm quite certain uses Brylcreem, you seem to have
> artistic pretentions. Which sage provides you with your opinions?
What is Brylcreem?
Jane Margaret Laight
wrote:
hint: "a little dab'll do ya...."
JML (the other one)
Andrew Chaplin
Greasy men's hairdressing associated with, IIRC, the Teddy Boys and, before
them, the Commonwealth air forces.
--
Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
(If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)
Jack Linthicum
<ab.chap...@yourfinger.rogers.com> wrote:
> "Jack Linthicum" <jacklinthi...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
Additional question, who besides TV anchors, uses this stuff? Most of
the "featured players" have either long unkempt locks, the crew cut or
are shaven bald. Do Canadian government people use it?
Andrew Chaplin
wrote:
> the "featured players" have either long unkempt locks, the crew cut or
> are shaven bald. Do Canadian government people use it?
It is long out of fashion in Canada, AFAICT.
Conway Caine
"D. Spencer Hines" <pogue...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Many of the films posted to date have been Cult Films of various sorts --
> most of them fairly recent -- and certainly not Classic Films.
>
> Let's try it this way:
>
> What are the ten best films about Scottish History?
"Braveheart " and "Brigadoon" would top my list.....
D. Spencer Hines
Pogue Linthicum flaunts his Gargantuan Ignorance some more.
DSH
"Jack Linthicum" <jackli...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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D. Spencer Hines
Best Films Concerning Scottish History.
DSH
"Conway Caine" <cca...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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Conway Caine
Scotland?
And you want to hear some more?
(I rather liked "Tunes of Glory")
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WhiteWolf <rayh<spam>@iol.ie>
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Mine too!!! :)
Ray
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Conway Caine
"WhiteWolf <rayh<spam>@iol.ie>" <ra...@iol.ie> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:38:32 GMT, "Conway Caine" <cca...@worldnet.att.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"D. Spencer Hines" <pogue...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:FLhNh.137$A6....@eagle.america.net...
>>> Many of the films posted to date have been Cult Films of various
>>> sorts --
>>> most of them fairly recent -- and certainly not Classic Films.
>>>
>>> Let's try it this way:
>>>
>>> What are the ten best films about Scottish History?
>>
>>"Braveheart " and "Brigadoon" would top my list.....
>>
>
> Mine too!!! :)
It's to be 85 today and me wife has a notebook full of yard chores for me.
Thoughtful, she is.
So the boys up North have agreed to share power.
Good on them.
Apparently the Brit threat worked and forced Big Ian to the table.
Did you see the shot where Adams looked as though he wished to shake hands
with Ian and Ian looked down and shuffled papers?
When is that old fart going to totter off to a Senior Retirement center?
As a last desperate measure, the Prods are even advertising in this country
for all the Americans of Scots/Irish to get in touch with "their" Ireland by
celebrating their Scots/Irish roots.
(Hey, it worked fairly well for the IRA)
WhiteWolf <rayh<spam>@iol.ie>
wrote:
>
>"WhiteWolf <rayh<spam>@iol.ie>" <ra...@iol.ie> wrote in message
>news:ln5g039fiufjc606m...@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:38:32 GMT, "Conway Caine" <cca...@worldnet.att.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"D. Spencer Hines" <pogue...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:FLhNh.137$A6....@eagle.america.net...
>>>> Many of the films posted to date have been Cult Films of various
>>>> sorts --
>>>> most of them fairly recent -- and certainly not Classic Films.
>>>>
>>>> Let's try it this way:
>>>>
>>>> What are the ten best films about Scottish History?
>>>
>>>"Braveheart " and "Brigadoon" would top my list.....
>>>
>>
>> Mine too!!! :)
>
>It's to be 85 today and me wife has a notebook full of yard chores for me.
>Thoughtful, she is.
>
85 years young or 85 "chores" on your ever growing"to do list"? Either way...
shudder!
>So the boys up North have agreed to share power.
>Good on them.
About time the Unionists were brought to heel!!
>Apparently the Brit threat worked and forced Big Ian to the table.
He finally found it... :)
>Did you see the shot where Adams looked as though he wished to shake hands
>with Ian and Ian looked down and shuffled papers?
Missed it... damn!!
>When is that old fart going to totter off to a Senior Retirement center?
Whe's he's about 250?
>As a last desperate measure, the Prods are even advertising in this country
>for all the Americans of Scots/Irish to get in touch with "their" Ireland by
>celebrating their Scots/Irish roots.
>(Hey, it worked fairly well for the IRA)
>
>
>
A United Ireland gets closer... day by day... and even if the Unionist deny
it... It's true!
Conway Caine
A point discussed even at the Auld Fart Chess Club here in Charlotte.
One of the members is a frequent visitor to the North and said he is
beginning to see a shift in attitudes.
Apparently the people on both sides grow weary of all the fussing and
fighting.
The land will heal and Ireland will be the stronger for it.
Thank God, I say.
The Highlander
It's a film which I think mirrors Edinburgh at that time very
accurately.
D. Spencer Hines
DSH
"The Highlander" <mic...@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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David J. Hughes
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:22:28 GMT, "Conway Caine" <cca...@worldnet.att.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>>"WhiteWolf <rayh<spam>@iol.ie>" <ra...@iol.ie> wrote in message
>>news:ln5g039fiufjc606m...@4ax.com...
>>
>>>On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:38:32 GMT, "Conway Caine" <cca...@worldnet.att.net>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>"D. Spencer Hines" <pogue...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:FLhNh.137$A6....@eagle.america.net...
>>>>
>>>>>Many of the films posted to date have been Cult Films of various
>>>>>sorts --
>>>>>most of them fairly recent -- and certainly not Classic Films.
>>>>>
>>>>>Let's try it this way:
>>>>>
>>>>>What are the ten best films about Scottish History?
>>>>
>>>>"Braveheart " and "Brigadoon" would top my list.....
>>>>
>>>
>>>Mine too!!! :)
>>
>>It's to be 85 today and me wife has a notebook full of yard chores for me.
>>Thoughtful, she is.
>>
>
>
>
> 85 years young or 85 "chores" on your ever growing"to do list"? Either way...
> shudder!
>
>
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Conway Caine
"David J. Hughes" <davidjh...@netzero.net> wrote in message
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So I meant, so I meant......
Elaine
> On Mar 23, 12:28 am, "D. Spencer Hines" <poguemid...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Which are the Best Ones?
>
> > Classics...
>
>
> > Lux et Veritas et Libertas
>
> thread on that in scs about eleven months ago. Here's my revised list
> of my top ten movies about Scots (or with Scots actors):
>
> 2. Local Hero
> 3. Trainspotting
> 4. Last King of Scotland
> 5. Tunes of Glory
> 6. Mrs Brown
> 7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
> 8. Bill Douglas's Trilogy: My Childhood, My Ain Folk, My Way Home
> 9. My Name Is Joe
> 10. So I Married An Axe Murderer
>
> honorable mention: The Master of Ballantrae, A Man Called Peter,
> Bonnie Scotland, The Wicker Man (With Christopher Lee), Stella Does
> Tricks, Robin and Marian
>
> And movies that are set in Scotland (some duplication):
>
> 1. Local Hero
> 2. I Know Where I'm Going
> 3. Whisky Galore
> 4. The Maggie
> 5. Venus Peter
> 6. Comfort and Joy
> 7. Trainspotting
> 8. Alfred Hitchcock's Thirty-Nine Steps
> 9. Tickets for the Zoo
> 10. Bill Douglas's Trilogy: My Childhood, My Ain Folk, My Way Home
>
> break out the popcorn--
>
> JML
I watched 'Mrs. Brown' on TV the other night even though I have the
VHS tape of it in a cupboard somewhere along with 'The Prime Of Miss
Jean Brodie'. I saw 'I Know Where I'm Going' on TV a week or two ago,
for the first time. I loved it.
Elaine
D. Spencer Hines
What do you think of _The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_.
DSH
"Elaine" <elainef...@isp.com> wrote in message
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>... 'The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie'. I saw
D. Spencer Hines
_I Know Where I'm Going_ is indeed an excellent film.
What do you think of _The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_?
Elaine
wrote:
> _I Know Where I'm Going_ is indeed an excellent film.
>
> What do you think of _The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_.
>
> DSH
>
>
> news:1175783321.3...@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> >... 'The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie'. I saw
> > 'I Know Where I'm Going' on TV a week or two ago,
> > for the first time. I loved it.
>
>
> - Show quoted text -
I liked it, but not as much as many folks here seem to have done. I
have it on VHS tape, and will have to give it another try.
Elaine