Top 10 British Films

[altariel]

communicator will be pleased, I hope, to see that Get Carter has topped a poll of 25 film critics of best British films. I was pleased to see A Matter of Life and Death come second, and made this icon in honour of my favourite film.

The top ten was:

1. Get Carter


2. A Matter of Life and Death


3. Trainspotting


4. The Third Man


5. Life of Brian


6. The Wicker Man


7. Kind Hearts and Coronets


8. Lawrence of Arabia


9. From Russia With Love


10. Naked

I personally don't think Trainspotting deserves to be so high and certainly not ahead of The Third Man, although it's possible I'm affected by a brilliant documentary we saw last night on BBC4 about the making of The Third Man. Still, I think it would be my own preferred film about illegal drugs set in a blighted urban wasteland.

Comments

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

It is, at least, good to see Sir Alec Guinness so well represented.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And how!

I wonder if Star Wars counts as a British film...

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

:) Good question!

I agree that LoA is much too low. Happy to see NAKED there, though. How anyone saw that and thought "**There** is our Remus Lupin!" is beyond me, though in retrospect I'm glad he or she did.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Naked is very good (and you are so right about Lupin!). I think Topsy-Turvy might be my favourite Mike Leigh film, but it's more mainstream.