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

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

Hang on. Am I being asked to believe that From Russia With Love is better than Ian McKellen's Richard III? Yer baws.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

You're up late!

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

Decompressing after an OU revision weekend in which I gave 9 tutorial session of an hour and a half each in the space of a day and a half. I have now used up all my astrophysical knowledge, and have reverted to believing the Ptolemaic cosmological model.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

have reverted to believing the Ptolemaic cosmological model.

Is that the one where the universe revolves around you? That might explain a lot. Or not. YMMV especially on a waiter's bill pad.