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

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

The Wicker Man! W00t!

Some surprising choices on that list - in a good way. I love Get Carter but is it really better than The Third Man or Lawrence of Arabia? Still good picks all round (and some suggestions for a couple I haven't seen).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

In a way it works better as a list of 'Ten Best' rather than 'Top Ten'. Personally I'd drop Trainspotting for Withnail and I.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The Wicker Man I'm oddly ambivalent about: intellectually, I know it's brilliant, and the end of it is just amazing (plus: Edward Woodward!!!). But I have never managed to watch it without dropping off for half an hour in the middle.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Well, I fully admit to being a sucker for the cheesy, head-sticky songs admit all that tension as well as the imposing hotness of young-ish Christopher Lee.