What would your list consist of?
The greatest British films of all time?
by Anonymous | reply 200 | October 5, 2024 7:48 PM |
Lawrence of Arabia
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 14, 2024 3:50 PM |
"Love, Actually", of course.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 14, 2024 3:53 PM |
Howards End and A Room with a View
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 14, 2024 3:56 PM |
Brief Encounter
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 14, 2024 4:03 PM |
Don't Look Now
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 14, 2024 4:07 PM |
Brief Encounter
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 14, 2024 4:46 PM |
I Know Where I'm Going
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 14, 2024 4:47 PM |
Jack Clayton's The Innocents (1961) Beautiful adaptation of Henry James The Turn of the Screw
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 14, 2024 5:01 PM |
‘Victim’ from 1961 with Dirk Bogarde
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 14, 2024 5:04 PM |
Gandhi
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 14, 2024 5:12 PM |
Jim Sheridan's powerful In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day Lewis' best performance
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 14, 2024 5:31 PM |
I agree with a lot listed here. Would add THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, BLACK NARCISSUS, and THE RED SHOES by Powell and Pressburger.
Also DARLING by John Schlesinger and THE BOYFRIEND and WOMEN IN LOVE by Ken Russell. These three distill so much of their particular time period while also commenting on their time that they transcend quibbles about their subject matter not being weighty enough to be considered “important.”
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 14, 2024 5:55 PM |
R10, the acting is superb. The Others is good but it doesn't hold a candle to the ambiguity in The Innocents.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 14, 2024 6:02 PM |
The Red Shoes. I like more everytime I rewatch it. It looks incredible in 4k, you can see how suprrised audiences must have been when they watched it for the first time. Those ballet sequences are incredible. I'm someone who hates musicals and I loved this movie (which is sort of a musical, but not completely).
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 14, 2024 6:03 PM |
I love 'Love, actually', actually.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 14, 2024 6:27 PM |
I love musicals which is why I say like in Chorus Line 'Fuck The Red Shoes!' Or whatever the line is. It has one of the most embarrassing endings ever. Shearer however is very beautiful.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 14, 2024 6:35 PM |
No Ealing comedies, no credibility.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 14, 2024 6:35 PM |
Is Lawrence a British film? It was produced by Columbia and Sam Spiegel.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 14, 2024 6:39 PM |
The list is too long.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 14, 2024 6:41 PM |
Are Stanley Kubrick films American or British?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 14, 2024 6:43 PM |
I don't know about "great," but Get Real is one I really enjoyed.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 14, 2024 6:52 PM |
Huh?
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 14, 2024 6:53 PM |
“Kes”
It still breaks my heart all these years later.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 14, 2024 7:11 PM |
R13, In the Name of the Father is a wonderful movie. It's also an IRISH one.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 14, 2024 7:14 PM |
Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 14, 2024 7:28 PM |
I know someone is going to mention Withnail and I. I guess it's a British thing - so fucking boring and not funny. And I love most British comedies.
I have no idea why they love this film so much.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 14, 2024 7:44 PM |
UK here, and I never thought “Withnail and I” was remotely funny. Dull people quote from it endlessly.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 14, 2024 7:58 PM |
Burglar
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 14, 2024 8:01 PM |
Sunday Bloody Sunday - this movie has ages very well. A love triangle between an office worker (Glenda Jackson), a wealthy doctor (Peter Finch) and the object of their affection, an artist (Murray head)
Darling - Schlesinger really had his finger on the pulse in the 60s and 70s
The servant
The Go Between - a beautiful, gripping drama about a love affair between a grounds keeper and a wealthy young woman and a kid who gets caught between the two lovers.
Mona Lisa - I love this one, London at its seediest
Hope & Glory
This Happy Breed
As somebody else said: the Red Shoes, Black Narcissus
Also,
Maurice, Room at the Top, Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange…
Too many to choose from.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 14, 2024 8:03 PM |
Brief Encounter
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 14, 2024 8:05 PM |
Performance
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 14, 2024 8:06 PM |
A Taste of Honey. Grim, gritty plus a sympathetic gay character and Rita and Dora. One of my favorites.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 14, 2024 8:10 PM |
I always thought The End of The Affair with julianne moore and Ralph fiennes was pretty underrated. I have a thing for melodramas.
Also The Crying Game
The Wings of the Dove also somewhat rarely spoken about these days, but it’s a beautiful movie.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 14, 2024 8:11 PM |
Full Monty, Far From the Madding Crowd (Terence stamp one), Zulu, Straw Dogs (the real one), Georgy Girl, Help!, Hard Days Night, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, A Taste of Honey, anything with Alan Bates in it, The Shout, etc etc
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 14, 2024 8:33 PM |
No Mike Leigh love?
Secrets And Lies, Topsy Turvy, Vera Lake (divisive, I know.) and many others.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 14, 2024 8:36 PM |
Straw Dogs is nuts. The movie just gets crazier and crazier until the very end.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 14, 2024 8:43 PM |
Eyes Wide Shut!
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 14, 2024 8:59 PM |
The Long Good Friday
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 14, 2024 9:01 PM |
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp has to be the most British movie ever made, and it also happens to be one of the most brilliant. P&P were in fine form the acting is top notch across the board. So many of their films are gems, but Colonel Blimp sits at the top of the heap.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 14, 2024 9:31 PM |
I enjoyed this one about a trio of buddies who escape the nursing home and end up on a remote isle.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 14, 2024 9:35 PM |
The Ladykillers with Alec Guinness.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 14, 2024 9:40 PM |
NOTES ON A SCANDAL. Perhaps not the best but definitely the most quotable.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 14, 2024 9:57 PM |
Nonsense. The most quotable is Cold Comfort Farm.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 14, 2024 9:58 PM |
Bob Hoskins has two: Mona Lisa, The Long Good Friday.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 14, 2024 10:01 PM |
Withnail and I is eminently quotable.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 14, 2024 10:01 PM |
Is Gosford Park British? It was made in England, but the director is a Yank.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 14, 2024 10:04 PM |
Greatest: The Third Man
Other favorites: Quiet Wedding; The Rocking-Horse Winner; The Man in the White Suit; The Meaning of Life; Letter to Brezhnev;.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 14, 2024 10:05 PM |
I’ll add A Hard Day’s Night
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 14, 2024 10:17 PM |
This Sporting Life
by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 14, 2024 10:18 PM |
Carry On Campung
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 14, 2024 10:19 PM |
Kind Hearts and Coronets, the iciest of ice-cold comedies ('I was sorry about the girl', in Dennis Price's inimitable drawl). And Life of Brian, of course.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 14, 2024 10:19 PM |
Matron!
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 14, 2024 10:19 PM |
Distant Voices, Still Lives
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 14, 2024 10:20 PM |
r49 Is Claudette Colbert British or just affected?
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 14, 2024 10:24 PM |
A perfect movie that time has seem to have forgotten:
If....
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 14, 2024 10:29 PM |
Why has no one mentioned my personal favorite, Lawrence of My Labia?
(I am so witty!)
by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 14, 2024 10:29 PM |
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 14, 2024 10:33 PM |
The Informer
This Sporting Life
If...
by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 14, 2024 10:37 PM |
They ARE the greatest British films of all time!
by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 14, 2024 10:57 PM |
Great choices so far.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 14, 2024 11:07 PM |
The Remains of the Day
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 14, 2024 11:10 PM |
Four Weddings and a Funeral is not the greatest, but it is high on the list!
by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 14, 2024 11:16 PM |
I'm surprised no one said Conspirator
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 15, 2024 12:16 AM |
David Lean's Great Expectations
by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 15, 2024 12:17 AM |
Thanks R43. I'd never heard of "Alive & Kicking," but really enjoyed it this aft. It's like a good Ealing movie: charming and very funny, without too much corniness. According to Wikipedia: "In 1964, the film was released in the US, with the film trailer establishing a tie-in to Stanley Holloway's success in My Fair Lady." Holloway is wonderful in "Alive & Kicking," and does squeeze in a song.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | September 15, 2024 12:28 AM |
Another vote for Wings of the Dove. HBC has never been better.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | September 15, 2024 12:31 AM |
The Fallen Idol
Hand in Hand
by Anonymous | reply 70 | September 15, 2024 12:35 AM |
Yield To The Night aka Blonde Sinner
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 15, 2024 12:48 AM |
The Red Shoes 👠.
The Black Narcissus.
No Sex, Please, We’re British.
O Calcutta!
by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 15, 2024 12:58 AM |
Maurice.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 15, 2024 1:03 AM |
The “Carry On” films 🎥.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 15, 2024 1:03 AM |
Make Mine Mink
by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 15, 2024 1:05 AM |
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 15, 2024 1:09 AM |
Women In Love
A Day In The Death of Joe Egg
Darling
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 15, 2024 1:33 AM |
The Homecoming (1973)
Designed to be analyzed, debated, and interpreted-thanks to its singular treatment of class family and gender-The Homecoming is both fabulously ambiguous and terrifically specific it has the force of a nuclear bomb and the precision of a sniper's bullet-Every 70s Movie
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 15, 2024 1:48 AM |
Séance on a Wet Afternoon .
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 15, 2024 2:25 AM |
Is The Witches from 1990 a British film?
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 15, 2024 2:25 AM |
I watched If… again recently and found that I’d somehow confused it a bit with Another Country. For the life of me, I was certain that two students were found in bed together and it led one to commit suicide. In actual face one prefect was in bed with a younger pupil but nothing ever came of that.
The two films are pretty similar in terms of theme though and how English society can ultimately cause one to rebel.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 15, 2024 2:47 AM |
It’s so unfortunate that this film, that was going to be directed by Michael Powell was never completed.
Looks like it could have been another good one from Powell.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 15, 2024 3:14 AM |
David Lean's Oliver Twist. The first few minutes of Oliver's mother in the storm is amazing.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 15, 2024 3:24 AM |
Scofield was cute back then.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 15, 2024 3:29 AM |
Another vote for The Long Good Friday. Organized crime is such an American genre but the Brits put their own stamp on it.
Great casting too, Pierce Brosnan's film debut playing gay bait!
by Anonymous | reply 86 | September 15, 2024 3:40 AM |
The Prince And The Showgirl
by Anonymous | reply 87 | September 15, 2024 4:08 AM |
This movie has some issues, but I love it. It tears me up at the end.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | September 15, 2024 4:47 AM |
Oliver Twist is on at 11:30 am Eastern today on TCM if you want to catch it and all its black and white glory (I love b&w).
by Anonymous | reply 91 | September 15, 2024 1:49 PM |
If Antonioni counts then Kubrick counts too.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | September 15, 2024 2:13 PM |
Beau Brummel
by Anonymous | reply 93 | September 15, 2024 2:53 PM |
Fire Over England
by Anonymous | reply 94 | September 15, 2024 5:30 PM |
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 15, 2024 5:30 PM |
A Hard Days Night. A moment in time captured perfectly.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 15, 2024 5:45 PM |
Enchanted April is one of my favorites. Also, Shirley Valentine and all those house points.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | September 15, 2024 5:50 PM |
I don't know how people don't find A Hard Day's Night unfunny. I think it's very funny but I"m biased because I love The Beatles.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | September 15, 2024 5:52 PM |
Who admits to NOT liking The Beatles?
by Anonymous | reply 99 | September 15, 2024 6:03 PM |
The Secret Garden
by Anonymous | reply 100 | September 15, 2024 7:49 PM |
R99, many people. I know people who think the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are superior. Those people are dumb!
by Anonymous | reply 101 | September 15, 2024 8:21 PM |
Don't forget early Hitchcock! The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much...
by Anonymous | reply 102 | September 15, 2024 8:28 PM |
r101 I don't like any of those British Invasion bands. They were like the K-Pop of their time.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | September 15, 2024 8:54 PM |
Spice World
by Anonymous | reply 104 | September 16, 2024 12:45 AM |
Withnail & I
by Anonymous | reply 105 | September 16, 2024 12:46 AM |
The Red Shoes wins
by Anonymous | reply 106 | September 16, 2024 1:53 AM |
Lawrence of my Labia
by Anonymous | reply 107 | September 16, 2024 2:03 AM |
Casino Royale.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | September 16, 2024 2:10 AM |
Shallow Grave was good.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | September 16, 2024 11:18 AM |
The original “Great Expectations “
by Anonymous | reply 110 | September 16, 2024 11:19 AM |
Don't know if it's part of the greatest, but I recently enjoyed The L-Shaped Room with darling Leslie Caron and handsome moody writer Tom Bell.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | September 16, 2024 11:32 AM |
That Hamilton Woman
by Anonymous | reply 112 | September 16, 2024 3:42 PM |
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
by Anonymous | reply 113 | September 16, 2024 4:00 PM |
[quote] The original “Great Expectations “
A great movie! The ending is much better than the novel.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | September 16, 2024 4:08 PM |
R77, I will definitely have to check that out
by Anonymous | reply 115 | September 16, 2024 6:21 PM |
A Passage To India (1984)
by Anonymous | reply 116 | September 16, 2024 6:44 PM |
Mary Poppins
by Anonymous | reply 117 | September 16, 2024 6:49 PM |
Colonel Blimp was on TCM today. I'll have to watch the whole thing.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | September 16, 2024 7:38 PM |
Hope and Glory
Local Hero
by Anonymous | reply 119 | September 16, 2024 9:39 PM |
[quote] No Mike Leigh love? Secrets And Lies, Topsy Turvy, Vera Lake (divisive, I know.) and many others.
Much Leigh love but those aren't even his best.
Naked--a fucking masterpiece
Life is Sweet
by Anonymous | reply 120 | September 16, 2024 9:44 PM |
Dawson’s Fifty Loads at the Weekend
by Anonymous | reply 121 | September 16, 2024 9:48 PM |
The 39 Steps
by Anonymous | reply 122 | September 16, 2024 9:51 PM |
Rhythm Nation 1812
by Anonymous | reply 123 | September 16, 2024 10:50 PM |
10 Rillington Place
by Anonymous | reply 124 | September 16, 2024 11:21 PM |
Georgy Girl
by Anonymous | reply 125 | September 16, 2024 11:28 PM |
Alfie
The Full Monty
by Anonymous | reply 126 | September 16, 2024 11:30 PM |
Brief Encounter
My Beautiful Launderette
To Sir, With Love
A Room with A View, Maurice
Remains of the Day
The Crying Game
And one that I cannot recall the title...It's set in the late 19th/early 20th c...a boy, boarding school incident, and a trial: " The ...Boy"??
by Anonymous | reply 127 | September 16, 2024 11:37 PM |
OMG, Merchant-Ivory owns this thread! Remains of the Day, Howard's End, Wings of the Dove, A Room With a View.
Priest with Linus Roach and Robert Carlyle. Maurice; Wilde.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | September 16, 2024 11:37 PM |
R127, The Winslow Boy starring Rebecca Pidgeon and Jeremy Northam. Loved that one.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | September 16, 2024 11:38 PM |
Michael Caine's Alfie.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | September 16, 2024 11:50 PM |
[quote] Colonel Blimp was on TCM today
Will Chrissy Metz star in the remake?
by Anonymous | reply 131 | September 17, 2024 12:37 AM |
Mary Poppins is not a British film.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | September 17, 2024 1:00 AM |
Is Elizabeth, with Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush a British Film? Because I enjoyed it. I also enjoyed Mary Queen of Scots with Margot Robbie a few years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | September 17, 2024 2:13 AM |
Certainly the great "Hitchcock Six" from his British period; all are terrific and interesting: THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (I'm always moved by the ending) THE 39 STEPS (masterpiece) SABOTAGE (fascinating) SECRET AGENT (interesting, with a young Gielgud) YOUNG AND INNOCENT (weakest of the six by far) THE LADY VANISHES (masterpiece)
by Anonymous | reply 135 | September 17, 2024 3:14 AM |
Why are so many classic British films not available in the USA on home video/DVD/etc?
by Anonymous | reply 136 | September 17, 2024 3:14 AM |
R22 3 Kubrick films are on the list:2001, A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon
by Anonymous | reply 137 | September 17, 2024 4:22 AM |
Peter Watkin's The War Game 1966
It was intended as an hour-long program to air on BBC but it was deemed too intense and violent to broadcast. It went to theatrical distribution as a feature film instead. Low-budget and shot on location, it strives for and achieves convincing and unflinching realism
by Anonymous | reply 138 | September 17, 2024 4:32 AM |
I wonder what the number 1 choice would be if everyone was polled...
by Anonymous | reply 139 | September 17, 2024 7:19 AM |
Barry Lyndon
by Anonymous | reply 140 | September 17, 2024 11:55 AM |
Billy Elliot!!!!! Cannot overlook one of my favorites.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | September 17, 2024 1:23 PM |
Pride, the movie that came out in 2014 to celebrate the Gays hooking up with the miners who were on strike and marching in solidarity. I loved that movie.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | September 17, 2024 1:24 PM |
The King's Speech
by Anonymous | reply 143 | September 17, 2024 1:25 PM |
Barry Lyndon is fantastic. I think it has the best lighting of any movie ever made. And it really does feel like you've been transported back in time.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | September 17, 2024 1:43 PM |
Shakespeare In Love
by Anonymous | reply 145 | September 17, 2024 2:06 PM |
R134 Yes! Yesterday I tried to watch the later one and cringed when I saw the screenplay and directing was David Mamet, not a fan. But I love Jeremy Northam so I gave it a shot. Gave up after 20 minutes and switched to 1948 version, screenplay by Terence Rattigan. New we're talking. Robert Donet more than made up for no Jeremy.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | September 17, 2024 2:36 PM |
Red, White and Royal Blue.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | September 17, 2024 3:17 PM |
The Third Man.
That ending on the Zentralfriedhof is haunting.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | September 17, 2024 3:46 PM |
Some directors that really rarely hit a bad note were David Lean, Michael Powell & e. Pressburger and Kubrick, I will watch almost anything by any of them. Then we had the foreign interpretations of Britain from directors like Antonioni …
by Anonymous | reply 149 | September 17, 2024 6:30 PM |
Is Peeping Tom a great movie? I've heard good things.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | September 17, 2024 6:42 PM |
R149 I forgot to add Joseph losey to that distinguished list.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | September 17, 2024 6:53 PM |
No ken Loach or Andrea Arnold
by Anonymous | reply 152 | September 17, 2024 6:57 PM |
R152 I see Kes was mentioned
by Anonymous | reply 153 | September 17, 2024 6:59 PM |
J. Lee Thompson was the best director ever.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | September 17, 2024 7:35 PM |
Also The Queen of Spades by Thorold Dickinson deserves a mention.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | September 17, 2024 7:41 PM |
Repulsion
by Anonymous | reply 157 | September 17, 2024 7:43 PM |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Anonymous | reply 158 | September 17, 2024 8:09 PM |
R155, what do you think of Yield To The Night aka Blonde Sinner?
by Anonymous | reply 159 | September 17, 2024 8:24 PM |
R156 I saw it a while back I really liked it. Also Dance with a Stranger which covered the same territory
by Anonymous | reply 160 | September 17, 2024 8:27 PM |
R84 I agree with you that "Oliver Twist" is a great, great film. I love how it unfolds-each scene takes it time. And although Fagin's nose is a bit absurd, Guinness' performance is a master class. As is the child actor playing Oliver. The Brits have a way of making their child actors into small wonders. And finally, it's all about Lean. David Lean can tell a story like no one else-the way he lights a place, how he creates smallness, and how he make each actor fill out his character so that we know a little more about mankind with each one. That's what keeps it Dickens.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | September 17, 2024 8:41 PM |
Sean Penn looks like Fagin.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | September 18, 2024 12:23 AM |
Atonement
by Anonymous | reply 163 | September 18, 2024 12:34 AM |
Brief Encounter
by Anonymous | reply 164 | September 18, 2024 1:16 AM |
Anyone like British actor Michael Craig?
by Anonymous | reply 165 | September 18, 2024 1:58 AM |
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
by Anonymous | reply 166 | September 18, 2024 12:22 PM |
R166, good choice
by Anonymous | reply 167 | September 19, 2024 10:16 PM |
Trainspotting the first one. The Wicker Man a pagan starter kit.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | September 19, 2024 11:40 PM |
The Moon Spinners.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | September 20, 2024 10:48 PM |
I'm glad someone mentioned The Fallen Idol. A wonderful film. Before covid started Film Forum was going to have the man who played the child at a screening. I was definitely going. Don't know if they did it after. I gave up my membership it had gotten so expensive and very rarely double features of classic films. A lot of money for one classic film. I was used to so many years of reasonable prices for double features. At one of their last of pre code films of '33 I saw a triple feature. I was going to leave after the second but I'm glad I stayed. I think it was Female. It was jaw dropping. I think the audience was slightly in shock.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | September 21, 2024 11:17 AM |
I love Female, I still remember the anmazing art deco sets so well.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | September 21, 2024 11:50 AM |
SNATCH
by Anonymous | reply 172 | September 21, 2024 1:31 PM |
Another vote for The Fallen Idol from the prolific director Carol Reed: Oliver, The Third Man, Outcast of the Islands., Odd Man Out, Trapeze
by Anonymous | reply 173 | September 21, 2024 3:31 PM |
Anything by Triga Films.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | September 21, 2024 3:32 PM |
A Kid For Two Farthings
by Anonymous | reply 175 | September 22, 2024 3:10 PM |
Three Farthings For a Lump of Shit
by Anonymous | reply 176 | September 22, 2024 8:00 PM |
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER...still the definitive story of the sinking of the world's most famous ship.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | September 25, 2024 12:12 AM |
And DARLING of course. Made me fall in love with Julie Christie. Does DOCTOR ZHIVAGO count as a British film?
by Anonymous | reply 179 | September 25, 2024 3:17 PM |
[Quote] Does DOCTOR ZHIVAGO count as a British film?
It's not Russian that's for sure!
by Anonymous | reply 180 | September 25, 2024 3:48 PM |
[quote]The greatest British films of all time?
Still waiting for one.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | September 25, 2024 3:54 PM |
Mary Poppins. No contest
by Anonymous | reply 182 | September 25, 2024 4:26 PM |
Comedy about a progressive lord who thinks his servants are his equals and then ends up being stranded on an island with them where class tensions arise.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | September 27, 2024 7:24 AM |
I think Dr. Zhivago is Spanish. It was tough getting all that snow into the Spanish countryside and then to keep it frozen.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | September 28, 2024 1:37 PM |
Yeah Red Shoes-wonderful over and over. Robert Helpmann sycophant here -anything chitty bang,55 days anything.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | September 28, 2024 1:53 PM |
Chitty Bang is the best thing Helpmann ever did on screen and the only good thing about that terrible movie.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | September 29, 2024 1:56 PM |
Kind Hearts and Coronets.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | September 29, 2024 2:49 PM |
I am surprised there is so little admiration for the British New Wave/Angry Young Men films...
Room at the Top
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Look Back in Anger
This Sporting Life
Billy Liar
among others...
by Anonymous | reply 189 | September 29, 2024 3:06 PM |
Naked by Mike Leigh. But I never want to watch that one ever again.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | September 29, 2024 4:59 PM |
R189 I love love love Room at the Top also the sequel is pretty good too Life at the Top.
Mona Lisa
The Crying Game
The Go Between
Sunday, Bloody Sunday - so ahead of it’s time
by Anonymous | reply 191 | September 29, 2024 7:49 PM |
Thank you r184! I just watched The Admirable Crichton on your recommendation . What a charming film and one that warms the heart of this DL maiden aunt.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | September 29, 2024 10:01 PM |
Gregory’s Girl
Whisky Galore!
Local Hero
The Remains of The Day
Chicken Run
The Wicker Man
Went The Day Well? - one of the greatest propaganda films ever made.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | September 29, 2024 10:44 PM |
Which classic British films had gay elements to them?
by Anonymous | reply 194 | September 30, 2024 7:03 PM |
194 The Servant
by Anonymous | reply 195 | September 30, 2024 7:17 PM |
R194 Well, British films, ya? So all of them.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | September 30, 2024 8:03 PM |
[Quote] Which classic British films had gay elements to them?
if . . .
by Anonymous | reply 197 | September 30, 2024 10:38 PM |
The Red Shoes wins
by Anonymous | reply 198 | October 3, 2024 12:43 AM |
Passport to Pimlico
by Anonymous | reply 199 | October 3, 2024 12:48 AM |
The Red Shoes is so overrated and the ending so ridiculous that there are other Powell Presburger films that are better. I don't hate it. I have the 4k. But I know Where I'm Going is the most beautiful of their films. Wendy Hiller gives one of my favorite performances.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | October 5, 2024 7:48 PM |