your favourite 20 british films

[Reactionary Rage]

I forgot The Devils!

List edited.

[bungo the mungo]

May 9, 2019 9:24:14 GMT rayge said:

and just a couple for the Archers – and neither of them A Matter of Life and Death.

do you have me on ignore?

[rayge]

May 9, 2019 10:27:29 GMT bungo the mungo said:

May 9, 2019 9:24:14 GMT rayge said:

and just a couple for the Archers – and neither of them A Matter of Life and Death.

do you have me on ignore?

Yes

Actually I didn't see it because you left off the initial A.

[Deleted]

I had two Hitchcocks!

[fearlessfreap]

No order

2001 -A Space Odyssey
Black Narcissus
The Third Man
Don’t Look Now
Carry On Luggage
The Ruling Class
Repulsion
Peeping Tom
The Devils
Walkabout
The Deep End
Naked
O Lucky Man
Dr Strangelove
The 39 Steps
The Loneliness Of the Long Distance Runner
If
The Servant
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Figures In a Landscape

[bungo the mungo]

May 16, 2019 2:30:21 GMT fearlessfreap said:

Carry On Luggage

is that the one where sid james tells hattie jacques to pack her bags?

[morgan]

The Hill
The Killing of sister george
Zulu
Sparrows can't sing
Letter to Brezhnev
Topsy turvy
Ryan's daughter
Lawrence of Arabia
Keep the aspidistra flying
Dunkirk (1958)
The madness of King George
A taste of honey
Paddington
It happened here
Went the day well
The family way
Wicker man
Mona Lisa
Black Narcissus
Sexy beast

[Sneelock]

rayge Avatar
May 9, 2019 2:24:14 GMT -7 rayge said:
I couldn't even begin to try to put a list of 20 together, but am surprised that Performance is on only one list so far and Don't Look Now isn't on any (apologies if I missed one). No Boorman, either, or Hitchcock, or Russell (OK that's understandable) and just a couple for the Archers – and neither of them A Matter of Life and Death. No Third Man, either.

EDIT started writing that before GB's post, so the arithmetic is a bit off.

"Hope & Glory" kept coming and going off my list. I was looking up production credits to decide which qualified as British and which didn't. research kept losing to the fact that five more films would pop into my head. I love Boorman & consider him pretty underrated. (I did pick "leo the last" which is Boorman & Russell's "music lovers")

I think Russell is due for a little reevaluation too now that I think about it. the things that made him so easy to dismiss back in the day don't look so heavy handed compared to what's come since. what remains is a very unique visual style and some very dynamic performances.

[lokie]

SO many I still haven't seen. These are some I've enjoyed~