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PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:34 pm    Post subject: Whisky Galore Reply with quote

interesting, this is a link to the film, whisky galore website, enjoy Smile


http://www.whiskygalorefilm.com
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent, signed up for the newsletter. Had something similar when they did a documentary about Zulu, but then they asked for financing and if anyone wanted to be extras in the production.

I have Whisky Galore on video and still really enjoy it, not sure if it can be redone as wel but interested to see the final result.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:46 am    Post subject: Re: Whisky Galore Reply with quote

talisker25 wrote:
interesting, this is a link to the film, whisky galore website, enjoy Smile


http://www.whiskygalorefilm.com


Love Whisky Galore, always makes me want to buy more whisky :D
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:51 am    Post subject: Re: Whisky Galore Reply with quote

talisker25 wrote:
interesting, this is a link to the film, whisky galore website, enjoy Smile


http://www.whiskygalorefilm.com


One of my all time favourite films. I always get upset when the church bells ring and they can't go out because it's the Sabbath. I find myself trying to force them out into the boats, all that whisky just sinking! Sad
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:59 am    Post subject: Re: Whisky Galore Reply with quote

[quote="Judith"][quote="talisker25"][size=18]interesting, this is a link to the film, whisky galore website, enjoy [/size]Smile


http://www.whiskygalorefilm.com[/quote]

One of my all time favourite films. I always get upset when the church bells ring and they can't go out because it's the Sabbath. I find myself trying to force them out into the boats, all that whisky just sinking! Sad[/quote]
the whisky maybe sinking but as long as its me sinking it i dont care Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:03 am    Post subject: Re: Whisky Galore Reply with quote

talisker25 wrote:
Judith wrote:
talisker25 wrote:
interesting, this is a link to the film, whisky galore website, enjoy Smile


http://www.whiskygalorefilm.com


One of my all time favourite films. I always get upset when the church bells ring and they can't go out because it's the Sabbath. I find myself trying to force them out into the boats, all that whisky just sinking! Sad

the whisky maybe sinking but as long as its me sinking it i dont care Laughing Laughing


Surely not even you could of got through allt hsoe crates of Black and White Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:05 am    Post subject: Re: Whisky Galore Reply with quote

[quote="Judith"][quote="talisker25"][quote="Judith"][quote="talisker25"][size=18]interesting, this is a link to the film, whisky galore website, enjoy [/size]Smile


http://www.whiskygalorefilm.com[/quote]

One of my all time favourite films. I always get upset when the church bells ring and they can't go out because it's the Sabbath. I find myself trying to force them out into the boats, all that whisky just sinking! Sad[/quote]
the whisky maybe sinking but as long as its me sinking it i dont care Laughing Laughing[/quote]

Surely not even you could of got through allt hsoe crates of Black and White Laughing[/quote]

probably not but i would have a damn good try Exclamation
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:07 am    Post subject: Re: Whisky Galore Reply with quote

talisker25 wrote:
Judith wrote:
talisker25 wrote:
Judith wrote:
talisker25 wrote:
interesting, this is a link to the film, whisky galore website, enjoy Smile


http://www.whiskygalorefilm.com


One of my all time favourite films. I always get upset when the church bells ring and they can't go out because it's the Sabbath. I find myself trying to force them out into the boats, all that whisky just sinking! Sad

the whisky maybe sinking but as long as its me sinking it i dont care Laughing Laughing


Surely not even you could of got through allt hsoe crates of Black and White Laughing


probably not but i would have a damn good try Exclamation


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whisky Galore!
Special Edition
PG, Optimum (2 discs) £19.99

"Comic structure is simply dramatic structure but more so: neater, shorter, faster. Don't attempt comedy until you are really expert in structuring dramatic material."
Whisky Galore
'It's a well-known medical fact that some men are born two drinks below par'

So writes Alexander Mackendrick (1912-93), dauntingly, in his wonderful vade mecum On Film-making, recently published by Faber (£25). The auteur of The Man in the White Suit, The Ladykillers and Sweet Smell of Success had made his debut with Whisky Galore! in 1949 in apparent defiance of his own later dictum.

But he was well prepared, on account of his experience in animation and advertising - not to mention his time helping relaunch the post-Liberation Italian film industry. He was involved with Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City (1945), the quintessence of neo-realism, shot on the cheap on location with non-professional actors.

Whisky Galore!, a fable of wartime and post-war austerity and (punningly) of community "spirit", is technically an "Ealing comedy". But, as Charles Barr points out in his terrific book Ealing Studios (drawn on by John Ellis's excellent DVD commentary), it was made hundreds of miles from that comfortable London suburb, on location on the Outer Hebridean island of Barra, and contrasts in tone and direction with the studio's cosily English comedies.

In Barr's words, Whisky Galore! is "cruel and clever". The Boston-born Scot Mackendrick shows an English fool, Captain Waggett of the Home Guard, magnificently played by Basil Radford, being outwitted, then expelled, by Celtic knaves - and incites a savage joy in the triumph of the fittest.

The film offers much less balm than other Ealing films to the softened, self-indulgent, small-minded, post-war, post-Empire English middle class. Waggett's sense of "responsibility" and "duty" (literally, here, the "duty" due on thousands of cases of whisky in a wrecked ship off the Island of Todday) seem absurdly misplaced and quixotic.

The pompous Waggett, who clearly inspired Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army, may represent the paternalistic regime that was swept away in the 1945 general election; the whisky-starved community who seize the alcoholic cargo of the SS Cabinet Minister have a nicely redistributive line: "Let each man take what he needs"; the islanders, many played by locals, are shot with dignity and dynamism, in thrilling quasi-Eisensteinian montages.

All of which suggests something of the "dramatic structure" of Whisky Galore! - but the film is gloriously much "more so": magnificently neater, shorter, faster. And funnier - not at all dated, so fast and sly and ingenious is Mackendrick's attack. Whisky is "spirit", morale, energy - and, implicitly, sex (a principle embodied here by the silky Joan Greenwood).

The opening voiceover above a pseudo-travelogue establishing sequence declares the islanders "A happy people with few and simple pleasures" - and a playful child runs out of a croft. Eight more follow, in case we miss the point.

Without whisky, life is melancholy, null, as the old invalid Hector lugubriously laments: "I'm looking at life just as I'm looking at my croft just now, and seeing the fog creeping in from the sea, and covering it up, and turning it into just nothing at all."

For, as the doctor (James Robertson Justice) announces, "It's a well-known medical fact that some men are born two drinks below par." Whisky gets sickly Hector out of bed, even running; it allows meek George (Gordon Jackson) to defy his termagant mother (Jean Cadell) and force through his engagement; it even, at the celebratory resolution, amid bagpipes and dancers, puts a gleam in her eye and a smile on her face. It certainly puts one on ours. Philip Horne

from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/10/08/bfdvds08.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/10/08/ixfilmmain.html#a
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