Top 10 British Films
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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:
- Get Carter
- A Matter of Life and Death
- Trainspotting
- The Third Man
- Life of Brian
- The Wicker Man
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- Lawrence of Arabia
- From Russia With Love
- 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.
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Date: 2004-10-03 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-03 11:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-03 11:43 am (UTC)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).
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Date: 2004-10-03 11:48 am (UTC)I wonder if Star Wars counts as a British film...
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Date: 2004-10-03 11:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-03 11:52 am (UTC)I took this Meme from
LJ Stalker Finder (http://www.go-quiz.com/stalker/stalker.php)
From Go-Quiz.com (http://www.go-quiz.com)
Hmmm. And I was in Cambridge just yesterday . . .
*slinks slowly away from Altariel*
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Date: 2004-10-03 12:22 pm (UTC)You ain't seen me, right?
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Date: 2004-10-03 12:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-03 12:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-03 02:24 pm (UTC)I'm glad The Third Man documentary was good. We forgot to record it but fortunately BBC4 is very kindly giving us another opportunity to do so. I do like channels that give idiots like us second chances and repeat things!
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Date: 2004-10-03 02:34 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2004-10-03 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-03 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-04 12:57 am (UTC)The documentary is very good, and hurray for BBC4 repeats!
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Date: 2004-10-04 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-04 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-04 01:58 am (UTC)The Manns
1923-1929: New drama series exploring the lives of German novelists Thomas, Heinrich and Klaus Mann. While Thomas subordinates his life to writing, the children grow up in a wealthy, liberal home.
Even if I don't watch it, it's good to know it's being transmitted.
Also, China Mieville is on The Book Show on Wednesday.
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Date: 2004-10-04 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-04 08:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-04 03:05 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2004-10-04 11:04 pm (UTC)The Other Graham Greene documentary
Date: 2004-10-06 11:32 am (UTC)I ask, because I was in it, briefly. :-)
-- Ian Griffiths
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-12 09:07 pm (UTC)I was surprised to find that Sparticus and A Clockwork Orange are not considered British movies. (I looked it up) However Dr. Strangelove is. I definitely would put Dr Strangelove in there alongside Lawrence. Bridge On The River Kwai is also in that group.
Help! What else is there to say. One of the few rock star movies that was good. Watch it, you will have fun.
I can't leave without a word for one of my favorite 50s-60s low budget sci-fi movies, Five Million Years From Earth. And, who can forget Raquel and her fur bikini in One Million Years BC. Its send up, Caveman, starring Ringo is better, but not British. The Magic Christian is, (Peter Sellers & Ringo) and I liked it, but I cannot guarantee all would.
Mike
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Date: 2004-10-12 09:13 pm (UTC)mk