Inverness Film Festival Screening Details

Lanterna screens on 14th November 2009 as part of the Inverness Film Festival's Bill Douglas retrospective. More details can be found here.

The Trilogy will screen that afternoon, and Comrades on the Sunday morning at 1130.

Louise and I should be there for all of it, so see you there!

UK Première at the Inverness Film Festival

Lanterna Magicka will receive its first UK screening at the Inverness Film Festival next month. The festival's programme is still being finalised, but we understand that Lanterna will be screened on 14th November as part of a Bill Douglas retrospective. Lu and I will attend the screening, and will either introduce it, answer questions afterwards, or heckle intermittently during. (That last bit was a joke, btw.) Hopefully one or two of Bill's collaborators will also be in attendance. I'll post more details when we have them.

Recent Articles

Good article on Bill - specifically The Trilogy - by Harry Eyres here, and another on Comrades here.

Criterion Review & Forum

Those good folks at Criterion have given the Comrades DVD/Blu-Ray a very good review here. And if you click on the link Discuss the Film and Blu-Ray, you get taken to the Forum, where the general consensus is that the release of the film is one of the cinematic events of the year, and Lanterna also gets some very good reactions.

Three years' work seems to have paid off... But no time to rest on our laurels, other projects being in the works. But it's great to see so many people being blown away by Comrades. Maybe after 22 years, the film will finally start to get recognition for being the masterpiece that it is.

Good Review at High Def Digest

Another good review for the Comrades DVD/Blu-Ray has appeared at High Def Digest. Lanterna gets earmarked as the best of the DVD extras, 'by a mile', while Comrades is hailed as 'a cinematic giant' and 'a film for the ages'. All of this is all the more pleasing, coming from a reviewer who had never heard of Bill Douglas, Comrades or the Tolpuddle Martyrs (or, of course, us!). You can read the whole review here.

Good Review in The Observer

A good review of Comrades in yesterday's Observer, by Philip French. Read it here.

Good Review at DVD Times

DVD Times has give the Comrades DVD/Blu-Ray an overwhelming thumbs up, calling it one of the events of the year. You can read the whole review here.