Long Shot:

Filmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, "Long Shot" is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking, with terrific cameos from Wim Wenders, Susannah York, Stephen Frears, Alan Bennett and John Boorman. Two low-budget filmmakers attempt to tal...

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Other Authors: Hatton, Maurice (Director), Davis, Michael (Cinematographer), Dodds, Michael (Cinematographer), Strasburg, Ivan (Cinematographer), Davis, Teo (Cinematographer), Gormley, Charles (Actor), Smith, Neville (Actor), Zelda, Ann (Actor), Wenders, Wim (Actor)
Format: Video Software
Language:English
Published: London bfi [2017]
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Summary:Filmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, "Long Shot" is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking, with terrific cameos from Wim Wenders, Susannah York, Stephen Frears, Alan Bennett and John Boorman. 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 Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, John Boorman, Bill Forsyth and Alan Bennett. [bfi.org.uk]
Physical Description:1 DVD-Video (81 Min.) teilw. schwarz-weiß

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