Capturing ‘The Big Yin’ on and off stage during his 1975 tour of Ireland, Big Banana Feet is a captivating record of Billy Connolly on the cusp of international stardom.
Inspired by the fly-on-the-wall style of DA Pennebaker’s Bob Dylan documentary Dont Look Back, director Murray Grigor and cinematographer David Peat present Connolly at his beguiling best, using humour and charm to successfully navigate the political tensions of 1970s Dublin and Belfast.
Featuring iconic stand-up material alongside fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses, this previously elusive milestone of British comedy is now newly restored in 2K from rare 16mm materials.
Credits
UK 1976
77min
Dir Murray Grigor
With Billy Connolly
Venues
May
From 10 May
Avenue Cinema Belfast
Bertha DocHouse (Bloomsbury)
Waterfront Cinema Greenock
Studio Cinema Dunoon
Pálás Galway
Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Dumfries
Brunswick Cinebowl
Broadway Letchworth
Cameron House Cinema, Loch Lomond
Campus West Welwyn Gdn
Eden Court, Inverness
Elite Cinema, Derbyshire
The Flower Bowl, Preston
Glasgow Film Theatre
Hexham Forum
Lighthouse Dublin
Lighthouse Poole
Lonsdale Cinema Penrith
Mockingbird Birmingham
Montrose Playhouse
Oban Phoenix
Perth Playhouse
Ritz Belper
Robert Burns Cinema, Dumfries
Scotsman Picturehouse, Edinburgh
Showcase Glasgow
Showcase Paisley
Tower Arts, Helensburgh
Vue Aberdeen
Vue Dublin
Vue Edinburgh Ocean
Vue Edinburgh Omni
Vue Glasgow Fort
Vue Glasgow St Enoch
Vue Hamilton
Vue Inverness
Vue Livingston
Vue Stirling
From 15 May
Nerve Centre Derry
From 16 May
Abbeygate
Ashford Picturehouse
Bath Picturehouse
Brighton Duke’s At Komedia
Brixton Ritzy
Bromley Picturehouse
Cambridge Picturehouse
Cameo
Chester Picturehouse
Chiswick Cinema
Crouch End Picturehouse
Durham Gala
East Dulwich Picturehouse
Ealing Picturehouse
Exeter Picturehouse
FACT Liverpool
Finsbury Park Picturehouse
Fulham Road Picturehouse
Greenwich Picturehouse
Hackney Picturehouse
Henley Picturehouse
New Park Chichester
No6 Cinema Portsmouth
Norwich Picturehouse
Oxford Picturehouse
Southampton Picturehouse
The Gate Picturehouse
Worthing Connaught
York Picturehouse
From 17 May
An Lanntair
Electric Picturehouse Wotton Under Edge
Newbury Corn Exchange
Newton Stewart Cinema
From 18 May
Strand Belfast
20 May
BFI Southbank
From 22 May
Barn Arts Banchory
From 24 May
Curzon Clevedon
Stephen Joseph Theatre
From 23 May
Eastwood Park Theatre
From 25 May
Screen Machine
From 31 May
Hippodrome Bo’ness
June
From 9 June
Riverside Woodbridge
From 23 June
Torch Theatre Milford Haven