British Movies
Aug 28th 2012, 4:28 am
#16
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Re: British Movies
How ever actuate, Kes is a bit of a shit film. It’s an overly sentimental and reductionist narrative that plays on hackneyed stereotypes of sad northern typey northern people. Although, that said, they are a bit of smelly pikies.
Aug 28th 2012, 5:06 am
#17
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Re: British Movies
Not sure if they're counted as "British" but two of the best Ghost story films I've seen are Woman In Black (Harry Potter's latest) and "The Others"..... Brit actors, set in Britain, but might be "American films" ....
Aug 28th 2012, 2:47 pm
#18
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Re: British Movies
I found this list of 100 best British films and Ive seen approx 20 of them.
Im sure there are films not on this list that some will debate are better.
http://www.timeout.com/london/featur...-the-full-list
Im sure there are films not on this list that some will debate are better.
http://www.timeout.com/london/featur...-the-full-list
Missing from the list is "A short stay in Switzerland". Oh boy.
Aug 28th 2012, 2:59 pm
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Re: British Movies
Any of Lindsay Andersons films... If, Oh Lucky Man, Britannia Hospital etc...
Old, but good.
I saw Bellman and True recently (from the local library), that took me back to 80s england.
Old, but good.
I saw Bellman and True recently (from the local library), that took me back to 80s england.
Aug 28th 2012, 4:29 pm
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Re: British Movies
If we are talking classics, and some do appear on that link, I remember Sunday afternoons watching Tom Brown's Schooldays and anything with Alastair Sim or Terry Thomas ( School For Scoundrels )
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Aug 28th 2012, 4:34 pm
#21
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Re: British Movies
Carry On films and any Roger Moore or Sean Connery James Bond movie 
Aug 28th 2012, 5:20 pm
#22
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Re: British Movies
I saw Harry Brown and Grand Torino and thought the same. Unfortunately Harry Brown reminds me too much of Crawley in the SE near where I used to live.
Aug 30th 2012, 12:16 am
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Re: British Movies
I'm watching Murphy's War with Peter O'Toole and though I've seen it before, it's great.
Aug 30th 2012, 12:36 am
#25
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Re: British Movies
Local Hero is one of my favourites too.
Aug 30th 2012, 1:02 am
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Re: British Movies
Could watch "Went The Day Well" time and time again. Almost anything by Powell & Pressburger plus early Hitchcock (before he went to Hollywood). "Appointment in London" just bought off Amazon, arrived last week, bliss. All provide images of an Britain sadly lost forever 
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Aug 30th 2012, 1:04 am
#28
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Re: British Movies
Does the tale of Souvy's suffocated passion count as a British film?