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April 24, 2005
House of Worth: Terrence Davies can't get the pounds
The jaw-droppingly gifted Scottish director Terrence Davies, who made Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes, The Neon Bible and House of Mirth sees another project detonate for lack of English finance. Scotland on Sunday reports, "It is one of Scottish literature’s great masterpieces, while he is one of Britain’s most acclaimed film directors. 'Sunset Song' and.. Davies looked like a dream combination, but plans for a film of the Lewis Grassic Gibbon classic [of troubled rural life] have collapsed because of a complete lack of interest in England." Scottish and international money was interest, but he was ashcanned by the BBC and Channel 4 as well as the UK Film Council. Of its £7m budget two years ago, Scottish Screen had awarded the project £500,000 of lottery money. Producer Bob Last says that "It was a film that was still very distinctively Terry’s vision, but reached out to bigger audiences both in the UK and globally." ... Celia Stevenson of Scottish Screen said: "I don’t think there’s any difficulty in getting a good Scottish novel made into television. I think there’s possibly more of a difficulty getting one made into a film. But I have absolutely no idea why."
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