| Description | The file contains: 'Cinematic poetry' Financial Times (5 Sep 2009); 'His pain was our pain' The Guardian, pg 6 (20 Jun 2008); 'Screen wipe' Sunday Herald, pg 8-9 (3 May 2015); 'Shooting Star' The Scotsman, pg 18-19 (12 Oct 2011); 'Bill Douglas Among the Philistines: From the Trilogy to Comrades' Cineaste, pg 28-32 (Summer 2012); 'His ain man' Sight and Sound, pg 22-27; 'Jane Bown's Photo Archive: Bill Douglas, 1978' The Observer Review, pg 2, 2009; 'La Fascinante trilogie de Bill Douglas' by Jean-Jacques Sadoux, in Culture en Mouvement Diasporiques, January 2018, pg. 94-98. English translation of 'La fascinante trilogie de Bill Douglas', January 2018; Three VHS copies of Andy Kimpton-Nye/400Blows Productions documentary 'Intent on Getting the Image' on Douglas' life and work (2006) a rough cut and final cut; Two letters from Andy-Kimpton Nye to Peter Jewell about his documentary 'Intent on Getting the Image' (2006); Two VHS copies of Bill Douglas: 'On Stony Ground' (1992) BBC Scotland; copy of Little White Lies (Nov/Dec 2008) which features Bill Douglas in 'A Visual Account of Five of the World's Great, Unrecognised Filmmakers' pg. 45. Documentary; 1 VHS Edinburgh Fringe Feature, August 1991 interview with Peter Jewell; Evening News (Thursday August 24 1995) pg. 11 re: Bill Douglas placque; 'Bill Douglas and His Folk' by David Lee Astley, Tribune Magazine 2021; 'Unnearthed 8mm shorts showcard the extraordinary talent of film-maker Bill Douglas' by Andy Kimpton-Nye, The Guardian, (Wednesday 16 June 2021); 'The Sunday National' (16 February 2020), loose clipping from unknown sourse with young Bill Douglas headshot and comment: 'He Hopes to get started in the film business soon'. Piece by Peter Jewell on Bill Douglas's 'Credo' as a filmmaker; Letter by Peter Jewell in 1998 to journalist Melanie McFadyean with comments on a draft, also included, of her article for the Guardian on the death of Stephen Archibald; Letter to Peter Jewell by singer Roddy Wooble, enclosing cover art taken from 'My Way Home' for the latest album by his band Idlewild and an online print-out of a piece on Stephen Archibald, 'Wasted Life of a Forgotten Star' Sunday Herlad 25 February 2001; photocopy of 'Prophet Seeking Honorable Men' The Scotsman 6 March 1990 p15 interview with Bill Douglas by Ruth Wishart; photocopy of 'Exorcism of a Haunted Childhood' Glasgow Herald 2 April 1990 interview with Bill Douglas by Lorn McIntyre; 'An Honoured Film maker who is without Profit in his own Land' Scotland on Sunday 25 March 1990 p7 interview with Bill Douglas by Audrey Gillan. These 1990 pieces include references to the planned production of 'Confessions of a Justified Sinner'. Request from Simon Usher for interview for a new film magazine with a reply declining from Bill Douglas. Thanks from Claude Delawaes to Douglas thanking him for interview for 'Jeune Cinema'. Observer feature on reader's buried treasures with entry by Sean Martin on Bill Douglas's work; Review of 'Ratcatcher' by Andrew O'Hagen in 'Daily Telegraph' (12 November 1999), referencing the author's meeting with Douglas; Review of 'Ratcatcher' at the Edinburgh Film Festival (Observer 22 August 1999) by Neil Pearson with passing mention of Douglas; 1992 note to Peter Jewell from Charles Rees with fragment of transcript from the filmed interview he made with Bill Douglas in 1978. Transcripts include: transcript of BBC Radio 4 feature on 'Comrades'; transcript of the Critic's Forum on 'Comrades'; letter from Peter Jewell to Duncan Petrie regarding the errors found in 'A Lanternist's Account'; transcript of interview of Douglas by Duncan Petrie; transcript of part of the interview Douglas gave to neighbour Sonia Shea; Typed draft entitles 'interview with Myself' by Bill Douglas from 1984 for use in interviews talking about the experience of filming the Trilogy and the planned production of 'Comrades', this was read out by Alex Norton in Andy Kimpton-Nye's film 'Bill Douglas Intent on Getting the Image'. |
| AdminHistory | Bill Douglas was widely considered to be under-appreciated and his work under-valued when he was alive. However, after his death and with the release of his filmography on DVD and Blu-ray there was a resurgence in support and acknowledgement for Bill's work. The archive holds many features that expound on Douglas' brilliance and lack of support in the film industry. Though the features were written well after Douglas' death, they all draw attention to the fact that Bill Douglas remains an incredibly important part of the British cinematic canon. |