Desert Island D(VD)iscs

[Rob Compton]

(JIM @ Sep 24 2005, 09:59 AM) But the 'luxery item' would have to be to change them every week!!! Which demolishes the reason for the 8 discs in the first place doesn' t it?

Maybe set up one of those postal DVD rentals Jim?

rgds
Rob

[Harleybloke]

Has anyone ever tried this? 12 Brit movie DVDs to have on the remote desert island that does have leckky and plasma screen TV?

Ice Cold in Alex
The Dambusters
The Full Monty
Get Carter
Zulu
The Wrong Arm of The Law
Let Him Have it
A Bridge too far
Gosford Park
The Battle of Britian
Carry on Screaming
The Great Escape (Not truely Brit movie.....................but I'll allow it!)

[Fellwanderer]

We've done this before in British Film and Chat but that was only 8 [as in Desert Island Discs]

My choice:

The Snow Goose
The Railway Children [1970, of course]
I Start Counting
Walkabout
At Dawning - very good, restricting to just 5!
A Canterbury Tale
A Matter of Life and Death
The Life and Times of Colonel Blimp
Ill Met By Moonlight
The Dam Busters
Zulu
Passport to Pimlico

[Windthrop]

The Small Back Room
The Wicker Man
From Russia With Love
Carry on Cowboy
Brighton Rock
Withnail and I
Shadowlands
The Devil Rides Out
The Ladykillers
Don't Look Now
Green for Danger
The Krays

[howard 65]

Originally Posted by Windthrop The Small Back Room The Wicker Man From Russia With Love Carry on Cowboy Brighton Rock Withnail and I Shadowlands The Devil Rides Out The Ladykillers Don't Look Now Green for Danger The Krays

GREEN FOR DANGER
RANDOM HARVEST
I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING
MEET ME IN ST LOUIS
THE GANG'S ALL HERE (BERKELEY0
TAWNY PIPIT
THE WAY TO THE STARS
SHADOW OF A DOUBT

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by Windthrop The Small Back Room The Wicker Man From Russia With Love Carry on Cowboy Brighton Rock Withnail and I Shadowlands The Devil Rides Out The Ladykillers Don't Look Now Green for Danger The Krays

Strange choice of the one at the top of your list Windthrop. It's a film I like a lot, a true "British noir". But it's not one all that many people know, or would choose in a top 10 (or 12).

Or was it because of that strange appearance by Mr Morley as the visiting Minister? Oddly only credited as "A Guest"

Steve

[julian_craster]

None of my 8 titles have been released on commercial DVD anywhere !

[batman]

Originally Posted by Steve Crook Strange choice of the one at the top of your list Windthrop. It's a film I like a lot, a true "British noir". But it's not one all that many people know, or would choose in a top 10 (or 12). Steve

The Small Back Room is one of my all time favourites! I had never thought of it as being relatively unknown.

[Windthrop]

Originally Posted by Steve Crook Strange choice of the one at the top of your list Windthrop. It's a film I like a lot, a true "British noir". But it's not one all that many people know, or would choose in a top 10 (or 12). Or was it because of that strange appearance by Mr Morley as the visiting Minister? Oddly only credited as "A Guest" Steve

Originally Posted by batman The Small Back Room is one of my all time favourites! I had never thought of it as being relatively unknown.

I find it difficult to restrict myself to just 12 and if I was asked at a different time I would give a different list. TSBR like the others I picked are, I feel, perfectly realised films on their own terms and RM's appearance is pure coincidence. Like Bats I am surprised it is regarded as an obscure film.

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by Windthrop I find it difficult to restrict myself to just 12 and if I was asked at a different time I would give a different list. TSBR like the others I picked are, I feel, perfectly realised films on their own terms and RM's appearance is pure coincidence. Like Bats I am surprised it is regarded as an obscure film.

I wouldn't call it obscure exactly, but it's not very well known by most people

Steve

[Third Man]

Always remember 'The Small Back Roon' for the wild and possibly irrelevant nightmare-of-a-dipsomaniac scene and of course the excellent ending on the beach but the dipso's nightmare is just so P&P and a little search tells me the cinemaphotograher for SBR was the same as 'Tales of Hoffman' Chris Challis, he's got a good eye.

I was watching a film the other night by Robert Siodmark called 'The Phantom Lady' starring Franchot Tone ( a pretty good Cornell Woolrich adaptation), it has a scene depicting a small jazz band playing in a subterranean private room, the band players looked off their heads and maniacal to the point of diabolical, the way the scene was filmed and shot, well it reminded me of the dipso scene in SBR, worth checking out.


Simon