What is your favourite "Non-brit-british-film"? - Page 2 - Britmovie - British Film Forum

Britmovie - British Film Forum Britmovie - British Film Forum Britmovie - British Film Forum
Home Page Register FAQ Members List Calendar Mark Forums Read

 »» What is your favourite "Non-brit-british-film"?
 »   Britmovie - British Film Forum » Cinema » General Film Chat

Notices
Welcome to the Britmovie forums.

You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, Join our community today!!

If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.

General Film Chat Wide-ranging discussion on all film-related matters.


Reply
Page 2 of 3 < 1 2 3 >
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 12-01-2005, 11:12 PM
  post #16
Freddy has no status.
Senior Member
 
Freddy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: The Irish Sea
Posts: 1,957
Country:
iTrader: (1)
Default
Quote:
</div><div class='quotemain'> Perhaps a mention should be made to The Elephant Man. Although with a total British cast,except Anne Bancroft,it was an American film,financed by Mel Brooks and directed by the avante garde David Lynch.
An excellent film,ignored for their worthy glory by the Oscars and not shy of showing the squalor of the Victorian era. For an American film,it avoided the cliches and all the cast deserved a mentioning. If Mel Brooks ever deserved an Oscar for Best Film,this was the one.
[/b]
thumbs_u
What a cast, Hopkins, Hurt, Geilgud, Hiller, Jones
et al.

Freddy

The world wags on.
Freddy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-01-2005, 11:22 PM
  post #17
Bobj has no status.
Senior Member
 
Bobj's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Hemel Hempstead
Posts: 131
Country:
iTrader: (0)
Default
[QB] [quote]Originally posted by SteveCrook:
[qb] Or at least to an area just outside Hollywood that they could make to look a little bit like Britain and then use some of the British actors resident in Hollywood.

Quite right I understand in the McCloud episode 'London Bridges' a scene that was supposed to depict a Buckingham Palace garden party was filmed at the Huntingdon Library in LA
Bobj is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 15-01-2005, 12:24 AM
  post #18
Clinton Morgan has no status.
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 158
iTrader: (0)
Default
I've getting into the films of FW Murnau. Especially 'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans' and 'Faust'. I've yet to see 'The Last Laugh' which I hear has only one intertitle.
Clinton Morgan is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 15-01-2005, 12:26 AM
  post #19
Clinton Morgan has no status.
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 158
iTrader: (0)
Default
Darn! Misread the title of this thread. Oh well!
Clinton Morgan is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-01-2005, 08:55 PM
  post #20
Repo Man has no status.
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 4
iTrader: (0)
Default
This is a real tough one, here are a few non Brit films i enjoy(this list has a decidedly French flavour to it)

400 Blows
Ikiru
Yojimbo
Diary Of A Chambermaid
Eyes Without A Face
Le Samurai
Repo Man is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-01-2005, 08:04 PM
  post #21
sanndevil has no status.
Senior Member
 
sanndevil's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Streatham SW2
Posts: 387
Country:
iTrader: (0)
Default
I remember I taped MRS MINIVER believing it to be a Brit film. When I played it back later, many little things led me to doubt it was actually filmed in the UK - just everything in the first few minutes didn't look British at all. Then a 'bobby' walked past wearing the old three-penny bit American cop hat! So much for it being set in the South of England!
sanndevil is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 24-01-2005, 08:28 AM
  post #22
Jim
Jim has no status.
Senior Member
 
Jim's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: LEICESTER, ENGLAND
Posts: 825
Country:
iTrader: (0)
Default
Quote:
</div><div class='quotemain'>Tony in Ottawa:
One film I'm very fond of, which feels British but isn't, is "Pied Piper" (1942) starring Monty Woolley, who was actually an American but he had me fooled. This isn't set in Britain apart from the connecting scenes in a London club during the Blitz, but it does have a very good British feel to it. Among the "British" cast is a teenage Roddy McDowall, who is always a pleasure to watch, and at least he was born in Britain.

From the déja vu department - as far as I remember, the scene with a column of French refugees on a country road being strafed by a German fighter turned up at least twice more in other films, in "The Foreman Went to France" (from the same year) and "Dunkirk" (from much later).

To add to Steve's comment earlier in this thread - what a monstrosity Heathrow has become. I have this fantasy that one day someone will discover deep in the Heathrow complex a carload of skeletons - people who took a wrong turn and never managed to find their way out! [/b]
SPOT ON!!!! Unless you're familiar with the forest of signs around Heathrow, you ain't got a chance!!!! And the standard of driving leaves a lot to be desired as well!!!
:mad:
Good morning boys.
Jim is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-02-2005, 01:32 PM
  post #23
DB7
DB7 is blinkin freezin
Administrator
 
DB7's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Shrops
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,109
My Mood:
Country:
iTrader: (10)
Default
Something might happen here but nothing ever happens in Shrewsbury...

Penderel in James Whale's Old Dark House. (and never a truer word said)

Memorable for Charles Laughton's boisterous Mancunian - who he'd later resurrect in Hiobson's Choice.
DB7 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 27-05-2005, 06:16 PM
  post #24
PAULBATTERSON has no status.
Junior Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 28
iTrader: (0)
Default
Quote:
Originally posted by Wilfried Mueller@Jan 4 2005, 06:04 PM
What is your favourite so called "typical british" film which has been filmed/produced in another country?
My absolute favourite is WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION with marvellous Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich in her best role.
<div align="right">Quoted post</div>
[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/devil.gif[/img] MY FAVORITE NON-BRITISH FILM IS "CURSE OF THE DEMON" WHICH IS A ADAPTATION OF A MR JAMES BOOK/ STAGEPLAY "CASTING THE RUNES" WHICH IS WELL WORTH WATCHING, A SUPERB LITTLE FILM... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/devil.gif[/img]
PAULBATTERSON is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-06-2005, 07:44 PM
  post #25
Jeno solar brother has no status.
Junior Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 13
iTrader: (0)
Default
The Third Man, this classic suspense mystery starring Orson Welles and other actors, is one of my favourite British movies not entirely filmed in the UK. It was filmed on location in Austria but the studio scenes have been shot elsewhere, most probably in England.
Jeno solar brother is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-06-2005, 08:13 PM
  post #26
DAVID RAYNER has no status.
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: none
Posts: 370
iTrader: (0)
Default
Paul, Curse of the Demon (US title) / Night of the Demon (UK title) IS a British film. It was filmed entirely in the UK.
DAVID RAYNER is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-06-2005, 08:17 AM
  post #27
dylan has no status.
Moderator
 
dylan's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: London
Posts: 543
Country:
iTrader: (0)
Default
Quote:
Originally posted by Jeno solar brother@Jun 3 2005, 07:44 PM
The Third Man, this classic suspense mystery starring Orson Welles and other actors, is one of my favourite British movies not entirely filmed in the UK. It was filmed on location in Austria but the studio scenes have been shot elsewhere, most probably in England.
<div align="right">Quoted post</div>
Welles' scenes in the sewers were shot at Shepperton - he couldn't face the real thing. Guy Hamilton stood in for him in long shot in several Vienna location shots. 75 sets were constructed at Shepperton - other interiors were shot at the old Isleworth Studios.
dylan is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-06-2005, 03:17 PM
  post #28
Gibbie has no status.
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 711
iTrader: (0)
Default
A little too gothic for me, but Rebecca was shot completely in California. I was surprised.

One of my favourite American Euro movies is Foreign Correspondent. Interesting story to this American Hitchcock...

"Although Foreign Correspondent (1940) was filmed primarily in Hollywood, a second unit cameraman was sent to London and Amsterdam for location footage. Although he eventually reached Europe, his first ship was torpedoed and all his equipment lost."

One more recent that I would call an independent Hollywood Non-Brit British film is The Limey with Terrence Stamp.
Gibbie is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-06-2005, 07:08 PM
  post #29
penfold is ready for hibernation
Moderator
 
penfold's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Bristol
Posts: 4,354
My Mood:
Country:
iTrader: (0)
Default
Could The Adventures of Robin Hood be any more British??
And to the guy getting into Murnau...you will adore the Last Laugh..
Bit of a Bay Window, what??
penfold is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-06-2005, 07:16 PM
  post #30
DB7
DB7 is blinkin freezin
Administrator
 
DB7's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Shrops
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,109
My Mood:
Country:
iTrader: (10)
Default
Where does Murder by Death stand? There's something 'English' about the black humour and it was shot in the UK but its normally classed as a US production.
DB7 is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply
Page 2 of 3 < 1 2 3 >


« Previous Thread | Next Thread »
Thread Tools
Display Modes
Linear Mode Linear Mode

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On
Forum Jump

All times are GMT. The time now is 07:09 AM.
SEO by vBSEO 3.2.0 ©2008, Crawlability, Inc.
 Copyright © 1998-2008 BritMovie