Bill Douglas Trilogy (DVD & Blu-Ray) ( My Childhood / My Ain Folk / My Way Home )

Bill Douglas Trilogy (Blu-Ray) (*)

$40.99

Original Title: My Childhood / My Ain Folk / My Way Home
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
175 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Black & White
Booklet
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1972 - 1978 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Bill Douglas

Written By:
Bill Douglas

Actors:
Stephen Archibald ..... Jamie
Hughie Restorick ..... Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith ..... Grandmother
Karl Fieseler ..... Helmuth
Bernard McKenna ..... Tommy's Father
Paul Kermack ..... Jamie's Father
Helena Gloag ..... Father's Mother
Ann Smith ..... Jamie's Mother
Eileen McCallum ..... Nurse
Helen Rae ..... Bus Conductress
James Eccles ..... Man Singing
Mr. Munro ..... Jamie's Grandad
Jessie Combe ..... Father's Wife
William Carroll ..... Father's Son
Anne McLeod ..... Father's Girlfriend
Robert Hendry ..... Soldier
Miss Cameron ..... Schoolteacher
John Downie ..... Undertaker
William Carrol ..... Their son, Archie
Morag McNee ..... Father's girl friend
Lennox Milne ..... Grandmother
Gerald James ..... Mr. Bridge
Andrew ..... Boy in home
John Young ..... Shop assistant
Ian Spowart ..... Schoolboy
Sheila Scott ..... Foster mother
Rebecca Haddick ..... Salvation Army woman
Archie ..... Down and out
Joseph Blatchley ..... Robert
Radir ..... Egyptian boy

Synopsis:

Douglas's magnificent, award-winning Trilogy is the product of an assured, formidable artistic vision. These are some of the most compelling films about childhood ever made. Presented here in a High-Definition restoration, the Trilogy follows Jamie (played with heart-breaking conviction by Stephen Archibald) as he grows up in a poverty-stricken mining village in post-war Scotland. This is cinematic poetry: Douglas contracted his subject matter to the barest essentials - dialogue is kept to a minimum, and fields, slag heaps and cobbled streets are shot in bleak monochrome. Yet with its unexpected humour and warmth, the Trilogy brims with clear-eyed humanity, and affection for an ultimately triumphant young boy.

My Childhood (1972)
The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

My Ain Folk (1973)
The second film of the trilogy is in many ways the harshest. It features many of the same cast members as the earlier films, most notably Stephen Archibald as Jamie, now even more the centre of the narrative, and Jamie's childhood continues to be occasionally relieved by moments of companionship, but a greater emphasis is placed on the boy being alone in an unsympathetic world, subject to both psychological and physical brutality. The structure of the film becomes more fragmented, the images more condensed.

My Way Home (1978)
Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 July, 2012.

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