Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sftri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!whc From: whc@sftri.UUCP (W.H.Canilang) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: re: Comfort and Joy Message-ID: <262@sftri.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 11:03:21 EST Article-I.D.: sftri.262 Posted: Fri Dec 7 11:03:21 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:21:04 EST References: <146@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Summit N.J. Lines: 29I saw "Comfort and Joy" recently in Chicago and truly enjoyed this delightful little Christmas card from Forsyth. I have also seen "Gregory's Girl" and "Local Hero", and "Comfort and Joy" just didn't seem to measure up in my opinion. Whereas "Gregory's Girl" is a tender, comical snapshot of that 'awkward' period of growing up, and "Local Hero" casts a certain mythical/mystical spell over the viewer, "Comfort and Joy" is simply a delectable, disposable fluff. Sure it's about someone finding that they have an influence on people's lives around them but don't you think a silly local ice cream skirmish compared to the problems of growing up or the altering of people's lives as technology marches forward is a little contrived? Anyway, "Comfort and Joy" gets my (reserved) recommendation. For those interested, I read somewhere that Forsyth had conceived of "Comfort and Joy" before doing "Gregory's Girl" but was unable to drum up enough interest. He did it now, after establishing his name/box office potential(?) and evolving "Comfort and Joy"'s ideas into "Local Hero". There's also a pre-"Gregory's Girl" movie called "That Sinking Feeling" that was around NYC last Christmas(?). It has something to do with a bunch of lads out to get themslves some glory by stealing sinks in and around Glasgow(?). I believe it featured a few of Forsyth's favorite actors (the tall one who played Gregory and Ricky Tarr in "Local Hero"; the mop topped one who played Gregory's Caracas-bound friend and auto mechanic in "C&J"). Forsyth had tried to block distribution, saying that it was not a mature enough work. I never saw it, but the N.Y. Times liked it. Any one see it? Bill Canilang ...ihnp4!attunix!whc