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
Essentials not on the site:
Small Faces
Another Time, Another Place
Brothers
Jamaica Street, Glasgow

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

The Wicker Man
So Scotland will be deciding in the near future whether to be independent or remain part of the UK- while i fully approve of the desire for greater freedom and autonomy, i will be sorry if Wales and Scotland are no longer together, but wish all the best for a very happy future. What a wonderful contribution Scotland has made to the UK, for instances to scientfiic advances.
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01Peter Feathers
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02William Walker
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03C.F. Partoon
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04Alfred Hitchcock
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05René Clair
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06Harry Watt
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07Michael Powell
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08Michael Powell
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09John Hoffman
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10Clive Brook
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11Robert Wise
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12Michael Powell
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13Orson Welles
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14David Lean
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15Alexander Mackendrick
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16Herbert Wilcox
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17Frank Launder
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18Charles Crichton
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19Ronald Neame
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20Peter Watkins
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21Gerald Thomas
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22Ronald Neame
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23Billy Wilder
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24Roddy McDowall
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25Delbert Mann
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26Frank Simon
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27Roman Polanski
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28Etienne Périer
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29Bill Douglas
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30Robin Hardy
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31Bill Douglas
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32Margaret Tait
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33Bill Douglas
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34Bill Forsyth
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35Hugh Hudson
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36Bill Forsyth
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37Bill Forsyth
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38Russell Mulcahy
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39Andrew Birkin
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40Danny Boyle
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41Michael Caton-Jones
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42Danny Boyle
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43Lynne Ramsay
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44Peter Mullan
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45Lars von Trier
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46Ken Loach
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47John Madden
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48Alan Rickman
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49Lynne Ramsay
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50Ken Loach
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51Peter Mullan
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52Lynne Ramsay
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53Ken Loach
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54Lynne Ramsay
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55Ken Loach
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56David Mackenzie
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57Andrea Arnold
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58Emily Richardson
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59Abbas Kiarostami
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60Colm McCarthy
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61Sylvain Chomet
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62Scott Graham
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63Ben Rivers
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64Ken Loach
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65Scott Graham
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66Jamie Chambers
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67Mark Andrews