Well its 4 oclock on this lovely, peaceful christmas afternoon and this is dickie bird here being a very happy christmas worm. Bill forsyth, 38 at the time of this september 1985 interview, is the acclaimed scottish director of a quartet of remarkable regionalist comedies that sinking feeling, gregorys girl, local hero, and comfort and joy. Avengers and game of thrones rule 2019 mtv movie and tv awards. With nancy mckeon, steven eckholdt, paul dooley, andrew chalmers. Actor bill patersons portrayal of morning announcer alan dickie bird is spot on. Scottish director bill forsyth has a strange way, one for which audiences should be eternally grateful, of delivering a symphony of melancholy notes which register in his movies with a sort of blithe exhilaration instead of the customary patina of hopelessness they perhaps might. Its more than a quarter of a century since he was considered. It was knopflers second film score, after his work on bill forsyth s local hero 1983.
Comfort joy comfort joy bill paterson alan dickie bird bill paterson leidet unter depressionen, seit ihn seine freundin asian girl reading ebook on digital tablet centrals book of homes. Comfort and joy directed by bill forsyth available on vhs. Radio host alan bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. For a while during the early 1980s scottish cinema was virtually synonymous with bill forsyth. Bill forsyth great director profile senses of cinema. After leaving knightswood school at the age of 17, he. Comfort and joy movie poster 70x100cm 1984 bill paterson director bill forsyth frame on your wall. It came after the double live album alchemy and preceded brothers in arms. Find similar and related movies for comfort and joy 1984 bill forsyth on allmovie. Bill forsyth is a film director best known for gregorys girl, local hero and comfort and joy. Comfort and joy directed by bill forsyth 1984 heartbroken after his girlfriend of four years leaves him just before christmas, disc jockey alan bird bill paterson goes out for a drive and finds himself in the middle of a war between two rival ice cream truck gangs if this sounds like a joke, it isnt. The album contains music composed for the 1984 film comfort and joy, written and directed by bill forsyth. That is, if you get director bill forsyth s quirky and dry humour.
Bill forsyth was born on july 29, 1946 in glasgow, strathclyde, scotland as william david forsyth. In local hero, the american played by peter riegert finds himself enchanted by the people and ambience of a scottish village he has been dispatched to purchase for an oil company. 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. Jonathan coe on comfort and joy bill forsyth s movie is a glorious christmas movie as well as a glorious movie in its own right todays best video the week in tv. Mark knopfler joy from comfort and joy official video. This film, in fact, could almost be a distorted mirror of more nihilistic loner films like taxi driver. When his girlfriend walks out on him, alan dicky bird paterson grits his teeth and plugs away at his sugarcoated job as a dj on a glasgow local radio station. Bill paterson, clare grogan, eleanor david, alex norton, patrick malahide, rikki fulton, bill forsyth. Comfort and joy is part of the vintage classics collection some of the most iconic films in british cinema history, digitally restored on dvd and bluray, featuring brand new bonus material. Through this event she learns the true meaning of christmas.
Bill forsyth was born william david forsyth in glasgow on 29 july 1946 and educated at knightswood school. Comfort and joy 1984 123movies 123 movies watch full movie. This is every bit as enjoyable as gregorys girl, local hero or that sinking feeling three other bill forsyth classics i love and own. The other actors including the italians who own mr. Radio host alan dickie bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. The film was shot in glasgow in 1983 and i compiled the now pictures back in 2009. Writerdirector bill forsyth comfort and joy, being human brings to life this tale, set in the 1950s and based on a novel by marilynne robinson, which is neither a sentimental nor simple. Bill forsyth i didnt think comfort and joy was going to. The 1987 film housekeeping, an adaptation of marilynne robinsons 1981 novel, was forsyth s first american work. This was forsyth s allegedly last decent movie before making the move to hollywood where things went awry. Radio host alan bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor.
With burt reynolds, casey siemaszko, sheila kelley, lorraine toussaint. Comfort and joy is a 2003 american madefortelevision romantic drama film directed by maggie greenwald and starring nancy mckeon as jane berry. Comfort and joy was writerdirector bill forsyth s followup to the enormously successful local hero, and the film successfully continues the bittersweet comic formula, enhanced by chris menges picturesque photography and music by mark knopfler. Dec 01, 2019 forsyth took inspiration from an actual, and far more seriously violent and criminal conflict that had been in glasgow headlines for years, but though allusions are made as to the underworld influences present amongst the softserve butting heads in comfort and joy, the scuffles depicted in the film are more easily remedied by recipes, or a wry, quizzical comment, than a hail of bullets or. This leads him into the struggle between two italian families over the icecream market of glasgow. Its been the subject of news reports, podcasts, and was even the premise of bill forsyth s 1984 comedy comfort and joy. Joy is taken from the original soundtrack of the 1984 scottish comedy film comfort and joy directed by bill forsyth and starring bill paterson. Oct 07, 2016 joy is taken from the original soundtrack of the 1984 scottish comedy film comfort and joy directed by bill forsyth and starring bill paterson. One of a string of firstrate scottish comedies directed and written by forsyth, comfort and joy though at times rather bittersweet and melancholystill has plenty of laughs, more than a few. This roster, assembled early, was to follow forsyths career to the point at which the later films, particularly comfort and joy 1984 and housekeeping 1987, were seen as somehow lesser because they couldnt be described simply by this stock lexicon.
Bill forsyth celebrity profile check out the latest bill forsyth photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Following the critical and commercial success of local hero 1983, bill forsyth had little difficulty in getting a new film off the ground though this would sadly be the last time in his career that there would be such a brief gap between features. Thanks then to mark c who spotted this on the late night television schedule a couple of weeks ago and highlighted it with a list on lb. Produced by david puttnam, the film is about an american oil company representative who is sent to the fictional village of ferness on the west coast of scotland to purchase the town and surrounding property for his company. You know, i got really sentimental after the morning show today, and i thought about poor, old steve kelly having to come in here and spend the afternoon away from his lovely wife and happy kids, so bachelorboy dickie volunteered and here i am. Bill paterson plays alan dickie bird, a glasgow radio dj recovering from being dumped by his girlfriend.
On leaving school, aged 17, he answered an advertisement for a lad required for film company and spent the next eight years making short documentary films. Comfort and joy features jane, the main character, who is extremely materialistic. The star of comfort and joy is bill paterson, an offhand, pleasant chap who is always polishing his car. Bill forsyth gregorys girl, local hero directed this comic thriller, which begins when glasgow dj alan bill paterson, already frustrated by the sicklysweet constraints of his radio show, loses his girlfriend. First it was supposed to ship at the beginning of march, now. Dec 17, 2012 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.
Jonathan coe on comfort and joy bill forsyth, 1984. This roster, assembled early, was to follow forsyth s career to the point at which the later films, particularly comfort and joy 1984 and housekeeping 1987, were seen as somehow lesser because they couldnt be described simply by this stock lexicon. International dvd talk bill forsyths co mfort and joy i ordered this from. The plots in these films move the story along, but to me are incidental to the character studies. Another of my film location then and now projects and this time its another bill forsyth classic comfort and joy. 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. Bill forsyth director films as director and scriptwriter. Glasgows top dj, with a nice apartment, and the only red bmw cabriolet north of manchester, he has little. The life of jane berry was all materialist, until one christmas eve, she is involved in a car accident that changes her life forever.
A tribute to all radio announcersstaff who work holidays. W henever i contemplate the career of bill forsyth, i realise im getting old. Comfort and joy 1984 bill forsyth releases allmovie. I really love all of bill forsyth s films and finally have comfort and joy.
She wakes up to discover she is the mother of two, a wife and that her only job is in the house, besides her frequent volunteer work. In comfort and joy, alan bill paterson is a glasgow radio disc jockey whose air name is the chirpy dickey bird. Professional thief ernie takes mike on as an apprentice, but while mike clearly has larceny in his heart, it will take him a long time to get as good as ernie. This may be even more true of forsyth s followup to local hero, 1984s comfort and joy, than it is of its morecelebrated predecessor. Comfort and joy is a soundtrack album by british singersongwriter and guitarist mark knopfler, released in 1984 by vertigo records. Writerdirector bill forsyth s followup to his best film, local hero, is another comic exploration of a man undergoing a personal crisis. 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 1984 bill forsyth related allmovie. 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. Local hero is a 1983 scottish comedydrama film written and directed by bill forsyth and starring peter riegert, denis lawson, fulton mackay and burt lancaster. Like most forsyth films, comfort and joy is warm and gentle without being cloying or maudlin.
Brand new interview with stars bill paterson and clare grogan, and director bill forsyth. Like his previous film, local hero, comfort and joy is about the discovery, made by the central, seemingly successful protagonist, of an emptiness at the core of his life. May 31, 2019 one of the most overlooked records in the dire straitsmark knopfler catalogue, music from the film comfort and joy was released to little promotion or fanfare in july 1984. Bill forsyth s charming and quirky urban fairy tale comfort and joy, the followup to his hit films gregorys girl and local hero, is a. July 29, 1946, whiteinch, glasgow, scotland by christopher meir filmography select bibliography web resources long before ewan mcgregor climbed into a toilet looking for heroin suppositories or mel gibson mooned the english army, when one thought of scottish cinema, only one name came to mind. William david bill forsyth born 29 july 1946 is a scottish film director and writer known for his films gregorys girl 1981, local hero 1983, and comfort and joy 1984. Comfort and joy tracks a complacent glaswegian radio personality. She wakes up with a completely different life and must adjust. Writerdirector bill forsyth comfort and joy, being human brings to life this tale, set in the 1950s and based on a novel by marilynne robinson, which is neither a sentimental nor simple exploration of familial and emotional bonds.
He is a director and writer, known for local hero 1983, gregorys girl 1980 and housekeeping 1987. Movie posters bill forsyth comfort and joy 1984 original. He made movies often thinly disguised as comedy, but with a heart of deep alienation and loneliness. Bill forsyth s fourth feature film rounds off an incredibly run of high quality, highly original productions based in his native scotland. Dec 05, 2009 jonathan coe on comfort and joy bill forsyth, 1984. Mccool are the kind of low key caricatures that forsyth knows how to draw so carefully that they never go over the edge. On the surface comfort and joy is the story a radio host who gets mixed up in an intense turf war between rival ice cream trucks. Find release information for comfort and joy 1984 bill forsyth on allmovie. William david forsyth was born on 29 july 1946 in glasgow, scotland. Bill forsyth s comfort and joy underwhelmed at the boxoffice on its release in 1984 and has subsequently been out of circulation for many years, which partly explains why it has never achieved the acclaim and cult status enjoyed by his other early 80s crowdpleasers gregorys girl and local hero another reason, however, might be because this comedydrama doesnt feel as fully formed as. Comfort and joy out now alan bird bill paterson, outlander, dads army thinks he has life pretty well organised. Produced by davina belling and clive parsons with bill paterson, eleanor david, clare grogan.