A comedy without jokes, a perfect description of Local Hero.

I watched it repeatedly to deal with alcoholism and depression, it was almost two hours of calm in the middle of the storm I was living.

@00bikeboy

Жыл бұрын

Now that you mention it, after I watch Local Hero I also feel that I've been healed just a wee bit.

Aside from being an extraordinary film, both Mark Knopfler's music and the use of light were every bit a part of the film as the actors, who were wonderful.

Yes. Best film ever. So beautifully crafted and wonderfully portrayed.

@pillettadoinswartsh4974

3 жыл бұрын

And all the characters are pixelated. - kzread.info/dash/bejne/nZmE2sxvga_aaKQ.html

Jenny Seagrove reminds me more than a little of Annie Lennox. Both are lovely. My wife and I are are going to Pennan and the beaches in the movie for our honeymoon from Michigan. I'm bringing a portion of my dad's ashes to leave in the sea at the Morar beach. We used to watch Local Hero together, and as an American of Scottish descent, he loved it dearly. We leave tomorrow!

@00bikeboy

Жыл бұрын

How wonderful. I'm sure your Dad is smiling.

Local Hero is my all time favourite movie. Wonderful cast and performances. I never hear anyone mention the guy who played Moritz. He (Norman Chancer) was excellent as Happer's insane therapist... "Look at me Mr. Happer, I'm a single man." Just great.

@rotad9967

10 ай бұрын

The scenes of him putting the paper on the windows is probably the worst scene in the movie. It should've been left on the cutting room floor. They could easily found another, less vulgar, reason for Happer to flee. Just adds stink to a very charming movie.

Watched it when I was a teen in the 80s. A stunning movie - one I would never forget - enthralls u from the beginning to the end!

What a total treat! One of my all-time favorite films. Great to see Jenny and Denis!

My all time favourite film also. Only 3 weeks ago I finally made my first visit to Pennan to see the location, it was like been in the film. I am only just discovering all this behind the scenes material here on KZread and am just revelling in it all, fantastic. Thanks for posting this.

@Jozz57

6 жыл бұрын

Isn't it wonderful?? I went about 5 years ago, a 25 year dream to visit. My all time favourite film, I love the plot, the scenery, the music, the humour, everything!!!! I wept on the drive down to the village, a wonderful and emotional experience

@franknowakowski3103

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jozz57 Travelled from the US specifically to visit Pennan, We surely enjoyed London and Scotland but our main goal was visiting Pennan. It was wonderful as well as emotional. My favorite film of all time.

@Jozz57

3 жыл бұрын

@@franknowakowski3103 Mine too!!

@beagle7622

3 жыл бұрын

I agree , found it today.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

2 жыл бұрын

Has nobody seen _Comfort and Joy_ ?

Its a wonderful film and for me, as a highlander from the place where the fictional "Ferness" is depicted on the map at the beginning of the film, it captures the very end of the way things used to be in the highlands. All of that is gone now. Its just a memory.

The great thing about the 'scene with the music' is that at the end of the scene no one turns off the music. Everyone sits there and it keeps on playing.

Fantastic film, never tire of seeing it ! This film deserves to be put out on BLUE-RAY !!!! Way past time with extras and the making of the film ! TC

@iakona23

5 жыл бұрын

It’s being released on Blu-Ray by Criterion in the USA on September 24, 2019.

Denis used to use the sunbed in a gym I had in Belsize Park. Always a lovely fellow. One of my favourite films ever and Penan is a place I lived near and spent many times in the hotel bar.

my favorite film! thanks for posting...

This film is a natural mind-soother to me. And the OST is another gem, I wonder how deep Mr. Clark's influences were

I'll make a good Gordon, Gordon!

3:00 i saw a program about burt lancaster who described how he was going to do a scene and bill said "eh, a bit less." second description-- "eh, a bit less."

Happy they gave a nod to the wonderful soundtrack.

@robertpinkstone4034

5 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to the musical.

@00bikeboy

Жыл бұрын

@@robertpinkstone4034 Damn, that's a great idea. Hope they're listening!

What a great film. Must go back to the Pennan Inn and sit in the bar to reminisce one day!

@grendel_nz

11 ай бұрын

The bar was in another village.

Shame they had to share microphones during the interview .

Jenny Seagrove is as gorgeous as ever.

thanks for sharing

I loved the film,warm and gentle.

Great stuff!

I forgot rebel pilot Wedge was in this! Really good film, came out the same year as *"Educating Rita"* where it's the first time I saw Julie Walters. I thought she was a scouser for real!!

One of my favorite movies🎉. Creates a wonderful feeling of magic throughout.

Love this film.

is there any streaming service prividing Local Hero in high definition audio and video?

'Pauline', referred to by Seagrove, was played by Caroline Guthrie not Claire Grogan...Guthrie was also in Gregory's Girl though

Love this

But what was that music in the restaurant? I've never been able to find it. It gets stuck in my brain for weeks :)

@richardhewitt3470

6 жыл бұрын

Try some Jimmy Shand recordings from the fifties - Scottish, polkas, accordion-based. Just a suggestion. Good luck.

My all time favourite film too and so says Jeremy Clarkson as well! There's just a magical quality to it and a beautiful story which resonated with everyone who lived through that Yuppie period! BTW Jenny Seagrove still looks beautiful :)

i was this at the movies when it came out. i was around 12 i think. strange this is i may have confused the ending with another movie. I remembered it as the guy sent to purchase the town as falling in love with and having a scene with Burt Lancasters character convincing him to not change the town. as i remember it, he convinces him to keep the town as it. i recently watched again and to my surprise this never happened in the movie. was it another movie? please help me out.

@juliao8428

3 жыл бұрын

It is this movie. But the man who changes Burt Lancaster's mind about using the town for an oil refinery is the local hero of the film, Ben Knox, the beach bum!

Great film, it just captured the atmosphere at arisaig and camusdarach beach perfectly, unfortunately the area is now very busy, but at the time of shooting the film in 1982 it was totally unknown and unspoilt. Like Mac you're seduced and changed for life by the place.

Love this quirky, goofy movie!!!!

I adore Jenny Seagrove!!!! :=8D

@waynezimmerman5308

3 жыл бұрын

She was much nicer as a mermaid than a dryad. 😐

Jenny and Peter would have made a cool real-life couple, methinks.

I adore this film, but initially, I was really disappointed by what I thought was this really lame 'Question & Answer' session from Jenny and Dennis. HOWEVER, I then thought about what I (Local Hero's greatest fan ever!), would actually say, if asked similar questions by an interviwer and I suddenly realised that Jennie weren't being disengaged, blasé or lazy in their answers, at all. The fact is that Local Hero works subliminally on so many interstitial strata (visually, comedy, musically, magically, morally, ecologically, vocally, socially) that it's almost impossible to talk about it. Sure, someone will no doubt pen a doctoral thesis about it (personally, I'd love to do so) or recruit it to a political movement, but to do so would involve dissecting it and evaluate different mores and attributing values judgments to the film score. If this were to happen, then I fear that we'd be treating as important things that were easy(ish) to measure in Local Hero (10,000 grains of sand in the hand!) rather than measuring those elusive, gossamer, diaphonous nuances that define Local Hero.

I'll be in Pennan in October!