BONNIE SCOTLAND
By: Kenji

I’ve included some non-indigenous Scottish set films, but can’t bring myself to include Mel Gibson and Braveheart, sorry; anyway, that’s really a Hollywood film, filmed in Ireland, with Australian star playing someone of Welsh ancestry. And i’m not too keen on Brigadoon. As well as the films listed Scotland has given us stars Sean Connery, Ewan McGregor, Alastair Sim, Deborah Kerr, and novelists Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson whose books have been filmed not only on Scottish subjects. Norman McLaren and Alexander Mackendrick have been among the directors who’ve made notable films in North America. Bill Douglas’ Comrades is a masterpiece about the Tolpuddle Martyrs, set in Dorset in England, and Australia

The Wicker Man
Essentials not on the site:
Small Faces
Another Time, Another Place
Brothers

My Childhood (Bill Douglas)- one of the cinematic treasures of the British isles, a poetic sensitivity chiselled out of granite.
See also Ozufan’s list Scotland on Film. Other lists on the Celtic countries of the British/Irish Isles: The Emerald Isle, The Welsh Connection
Taking a leaf from the book of Ozufan, a true Scot and no doubt a great tosser of the caber:
The eerie call of the loon, the dark waters of Loch Lomond, the enticing wild redhead called Fiona, the auld empty barn, the wee sleekit beastie, the phantom flasher of Inverness (yes it’s true what a Scotsman has under his kilt!), the Highland jig, the swoop of the Osprey, the swirl of the sprorran, the leap of the haggis, the storms over the isles of Rum, Eigg and Muck, the downing of the finest whisky at Hogmanay, hooray for Rabbie Burns, the burn and the 19th hole at St Andrews, Nessie, Archie Gemmill’s world cup goal and the deep fried battered Mars Bar… and woe betide the unwary Sassenach traveller.
“These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.” (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Loch Ness Monster’s Song
Sssnnnwhuffffll?
Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl.
Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl –
gm grawwwww grf grawf awfgm graw gm.
Hovoplodok – doplodovok – plovodokot – doplodokosh?
Splgraw fok fok splgrafhatchgabrlgabrl fok splfok!
Zgra kra gka fok!
Grof grawff gahf?
Gombl mbl bl –
blm plm,
blm plm,
blm plm,
blp
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01William Walker
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02C.F. Partoon
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03Alfred Hitchcock
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04René Clair
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05Harry Watt
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06Michael Powell
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07Michael Powell
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08Clive Brook
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09Robert Wise
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10Michael Powell
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11Orson Welles
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12David Lean
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13Alexander Mackendrick
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14Herbert Wilcox
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15Frank Launder
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16Charles Crichton
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17Ronald Neame
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18Peter Watkins
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19Gerald Thomas
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20Ronald Neame
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21Billy Wilder
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22Delbert Mann
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23Roman Polanski
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24Etienne Périer
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25Bill Douglas
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26Robin Hardy
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27Bill Douglas
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28Margaret Tait
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29Bill Douglas
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30Bill Forsyth
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31Hugh Hudson
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32Bill Forsyth
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33Bill Forsyth
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34Russell Mulcahy
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35Andrew Birkin
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36Danny Boyle
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37Michael Caton-Jones
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38Danny Boyle
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39Lynne Ramsay
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40Peter Mullan
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41Lars von Trier
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42Ken Loach
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43John Madden
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44Alan Rickman
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45Lynne Ramsay
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46Ken Loach
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47Peter Mullan
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48Lynne Ramsay
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49Ken Loach
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50Lynne Ramsay
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51Ken Loach
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52David Mackenzie
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53Andrea Arnold
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54Emily Richardson
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55Abbas Kiarostami
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56Colm McCarthy
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57Sylvain Chomet
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58Scott Graham
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59Ben Rivers
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60Ken Loach