jelavicroad
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some of the scenes are highly relatable but i agree some are corny still give it an airing now and again tholol.
some of the scenes are highly relatable but i agree some are corny still give it an airing now and again tholol.
some of the scenes are highly relatable but i agree some are corny still give it an airing now and again tho
Maybe not the best, but the original Get Carter ranks pretty highly for me.
Most of the more recent ones I can think of have already been mentioned (Dead Mans Shoes, Kill List, etc) apart from Eden Lake which I'm still not sure if I liked or not.
I think that's why I'm not sure about it. The general idea was great and it started off being quite believable, but I think they went a bit over the top with it.I like gritty British social realism and I settled in to watch 'Eden Lake', not having read any reviews. I got about half way through but the increasing nastiness and brutality of it proved too much for me.
I think that's why I'm not sure about it. The general idea was great and it started off being quite believable, but I think they went a bit over the top with it.
Just did a thread search to see if this had been mentioned as I watched it a few months back and it's the first good British film I've seen recently that sprang to mind. Set of good performances and nothing to insult your intelligence plus a couple of good punch-ups....
Will Bill - Dexter Fletcher's debut - not seen, but heard lots of good things about it
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Went the day well
A matter of life and death
The life and death of Colonel Blimp
The hill
The ladykillers
The 39 steps (1935)
The rebel (1961)
Passport to pimlico
Just some of my favourites
Wheatley's directing the first episodes of the Capaldi Dr Who. Which could be...bizarreWatched 'A Field in England' at the weekend, was bloody awesome if extremely surreal.
Went the day well
A matter of life and death
The life and death of Colonel Blimp
The hill
The ladykillers
The 39 steps (1935)
The rebel (1961)
Passport to pimlico
Just some of my favourites
Beat me to it.http://www.filmsite.org/brit100.html I have few arguments with the bfi list.
Sprocket, I agree the third man and Saturday night, Sunday morning are also fantastic.
There is something about ww2 films , and the films of the 1950s which seem to reflect a reality of ordinary life which modern films have difficulty matching, for all the sometimes stilted language. Pressburger and Powell, and the Ealing studios output seem to me to celebrate the nobility of the common man.
Oh and I forgot Ice cold in Alex
Also.
A Taste of Honey.
Room at the Top.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
Look Back in Anger.
Millions Like Us is, indeed, superb. one of the best wartime propaganda movies by a mile. Waterloo Road, made by Gilliat & Lauder too, is also well worth a watch, as is Two Thousand Women.Two films that are worth a mention (though they would never qualify on anyone's 'best films' list) are 'Millions Like Us' (1943), a realistic but reassuring wartime propaganda film, with Eric Portman (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036160/) and - for me one of my favourite films - 'This Happy Breed' (1944) by Noel Coward and starring Celia Johnson and the wonderful Robert Newton (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037367/).
Watched 'A Field in England' at the weekend, was bloody awesome if extremely surreal.
Wild Bill is the best I've seen recently.
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The Crying Game