murphy1975

Not all British

Nil By Mouth (Ray Winston)
Births Marriages And Deaths (Ray Winston)
The War Zone Ray (winston)
Sexy Beast (Ray Winston)
Once were warriors
Life is sweet
Secrets and lies
Divorcing Jack
Love Honour And Obey
Orphans
LadyBird LadyBird
Blow
Once Upon A Time In The Midlands
Chopper

Steve Crook

All British (but not necessarily made by an all British crew):

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Edge of the World (1937)
Peeping Tom (1960)

and a few others by the same people.

Not in any particular order of favouritism apart from the first one.

Steve

Steve Crook

PaPAS

ollie

Kes
get carter
the loneliness of the long distance runner
saturday night and sunday morning
the family way thumbs_u
cheers Ollie.

"Bullseye !!"

lambchopnixon

ALL BRITISH:
Small Back Room,
Chu Chin Chow,
The Maggie,
They Drive By Night.

Also:
Blackmail,
One of Our Aircraft is Missing,
Ill Met by Moonlight,
Thief of Bagdad,
Juggernaut.

Jim

AMERICAN, FRENCH AND BRIT:

Danton
The List of Adrian Messenger
The Days of Wine & roses (excellent film)
A Matter of Life and Death
The Life and Death Of Colonel Blimp
Bullshot (courtesy of David Brent, cheers mate) thumbs_u
and a few of those already mentioned.

Good morning boys.

Darling

I was very pleased to see Ladybird, Ladybird listed, a scathing indictment of the welfare system, along with another favourite of mine, Cathy Come Home, both directed by Ken Loach. So too, Kes in which a glimmer of hope is so devastatingly quashed at the end. They all make me very angry but they must be seen.

Russ

Speaking of Ken Loach, an excellent drama of his available on DVD is Raining Stones with Bruce Jones (acting for a change and not irritating as he is in Coronation Street)and Ricky Tomlinson.
It also features one of the best screen baddies.

Darling

I tried watching Raining Stones, but I found it quite unintelligible at the beginning and gave up on it. Maybe it's the regional/cultural divide?

Steve Crook

Speaking of Ken Loach, I see he's appearing at the Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Kent on Mon 4th Oct at 6:50pm. That will be followed by a screening of Ladybird Ladybird (1994).

Details at Gulbenkian site.

Steve

Steve Crook

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Marky B

Watched the DVD of Touching the Void last night. Excellent. It is a drama documentary about two climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates climbing a mountain in Peru. The actual climbers relate the story themselves,but actors (or climbers) act out their terrible ordeal of when Joe Simpson slips down with a broken leg and hangs on the end of the rope. Yates,himself getting dragged,makes the heart wrenching decision to cut the rope,letting his friend fall.
The film is of high quality drama and tension.
It was made by the Oscar winning documentary maker Kevin McDonald and financed by Film 4.
Ta Ta
Marky B scold

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Marky B

Sorry scold should have been thumbs_u
Ta Ta Marky B thumbs_u

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Steve Crook

Kevin Macdonald also won the Alexander Korda award for the Best British Film (not just documentary) at the BAFTAs for Touching the Void.

He won his Oscar for One Day in September (2000). That should be on everyone's Must See list. He's done quite a few other very good documentaries like Humphrey Jennings (2000)
and Being Mick (2001) (about Mick Jagger).

He's the grandson of Emeric Pressburger (as in Powell & Pressburger) and has written a biography about Emeric.

A very nice man.

Steve

Steve Crook

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Marky B

Thanks,Stevie
Obviously a major film maker ready for the big time. scarf
Ta Ta
Marky B thumbs_u

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

JamesM

Lambchophowtoquicksmoking, sorry wrong album, I mean lambchopnixon! Is the Juggernaur film you mention the Richard Harris film or the Boris Karloff film?

deckard

Talking of films financed by channel 4, one of their early gems was "P'Tang Yang Kipperbang"(1984) directed by the wonderful Michael Apted. An endearing tale of schoolboy love wonderfully acted by the mainly young cast,excellently written by Jack Rosenthal,with little subplots that only the schoolboy mind can conjure. I humbly recommend this little sparkler to anyone who hasn't seen it. :)

"and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"