LONG SHOT (DUAL FORMAT) (FLIPSIDE) - BLU-RAY

Product Description

LONG SHOT
A film by Maurice Hatton

THE FLIPSIDE: rescuing weird and wonderful British films from obscurity and presenting them in new high-quality editions.

Two low budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance in this brilliantly barbed movie-biz satire played out against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival. Shot for next to nothing on short-end scraps of black-and-white stock, this deadpan verité-style comedy drama follows director Charlie (Charles Gormley) and scriptwriter Neville (Neville Smith) on the hunt for cash, cast and 'name director' Sam Fuller to shoot their Aberdeen-set oil-boom adventure 'Gulf and Western'. Along the way, they encounter a plethora of filmmaking luminaries including Wem Wenders, Stephen Frears, John Boorman, Bill Forsyth and Alan Bennett.

Special features:

• Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition
• Scene Nun, Take One (Maurice Hatton, 1964, 26 mins): Comedy short film starring Susannah York
• Hooray for Holyrood (Ross Wilson, 1986, 38 mins): Scottish Television film celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Edinburgh Film Festival, presented by Robbie Coltrane
• Sean Connery's Edinburgh (1982, 28 mins): Promotional film starring the iconic actor
• Booklet with new writing from Bill Forsyth, Vic Pratt and Dylan Cave, plus full film credits

UK | 1978 | black and white, colour | 84 minutes | English language, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | original aspect ratio 1.33:1 | Cert 12 (infrequent strong language, moderate sex references) |BD50: 1080p, 24fps, 1.0 PCM mono (48kHz/24-bit), region free | DVD9: PAL, 25fps, Dolby Digital 1.0 mono (192kbps), region 0

Review

'A picaresque comedy...forged from the repeated lament for a native cinema' --Time Out