harryfielder

That must be a first...

Aitch,

http://www.turnipnet.com/aitch/aitch/gallery.htm

Fellwanderer

An obsession with British film! How odd

Welcome

PS can you let us know a bit about the OU Course?

All the best
FELL

A signature is no substitute for a life

batman

I wish I had claws.

Jumbo1965

My experience similar to Boris G. Anyone with info on how to reply to a post without being told the administrator won't allowi t would be most appreciated. So looking forward to using this fine-looking site but reading the rules hasn't provided me any answers

Steve Crook

You can add another message to a thread by clicking on the button near the bottom left of every thread. That's probably what you did to add this message.

You can reply to a message, quoting the message you're replying to, by clicking on the button at the bottom right of every message. That's what I did here to quote your message. It's useful to quote the message you're replying to because a thread can often drift and be talking about more than one subject.

The only restrictions are that you can't use the Private Messages, nor can you post requests in the threads Looking for a Video/DVD (Film) or Looking for a Video/DVD (TV) until you've got a bit of experience and have posted some messages in other threads. This will also give other members a chance to get to know you and so they'll be more likely to help you

Welcome to the forum

Steve

mikeyj

Im New to this technical please bear with me.

My Name is mike married with 2 daughters and I am looking forward working with you all
Regards

Mike

charliekane

Hi -

Just joined this site although I've been familiar with it for years - if you look up the entry on Michael Powell (as I'm sure you all have !), pretty much the entire text is taken from my book on the great man published by Batsford in 1996, which I found greatly flattering.

It goes without saying, then, that I consider P&P the greatest of British film-makers - favourite movies of theirs are A Canterbury Tale, Gone to Earth and A Matter of Life and Death.

Also very fond of Carol Reed's 30s to early 50s work, Hitchcock in England (I think he almost lost it completely when he went to America), Basil Dearden and practically anything with Alec Guinness in it.

Looking forward to browsing the site and being outraged at other people's opinions !!!

- James Howard

charliekane

Hi -
Interested in your OU course - I did one as my final year in 1999 called 'Cinema & Society - Britain in the 1950s and 1960s'. Is this the same one ?
There were so few of us on that course in the North West region that we only ever had one tutorial at Manchester University when about 6 people turned up. A couple of them spent most of the afternoon arguing over whether or not Katie Johnson's Mrs Wilberforce was a ghost in The Ladykillers (!) while another bloke insisted that Michael Powell's Peeping Tom was a disgraceful picture that should never have been released.
Hope your group is a little more broad-minded and sensible !!

Best wishes

- James Howard

Stu53

Hi to everyone,

This is my first post here, and I hope its the first of many. I am a big fan of films in general and television programmes of the sixties and seventies with some great memories of that era.

I have a very special and personal interest in "Play for Todays" and certain plays made by ITV, and I hope I can find some answers to my questions on these boards.

Thanks for reading this and best regards to you all

All the best
Stu.

cerimlea

Hello I am new to this site, I found it whilst doing some research, I was trying to find out how I could get a copy of The Mens Room, a BBC drama from1991, I've been after it for years, so hopefully I'll have some luck on this site.....many fanks x

Paul Terry

Hello all!

I am an enthusiast for both British films (especially 1930s to 50s), and also music, so my favourite film (at the moment, it changes) is Things to Come, because it's (a) a great film (IMHO), and (b) has a cracking score by Arthur Bliss. Of course, I like films with music by less well-known composers or arrangers too!

I hope to share thoughts & opinions about the British cinema of yesteryear, as well as more up-to-the-minute movies too.

Best wishes,

Paul

Derren

First post for me too, I was totally unaware of the site, I found it after doing a search for "Butcher's Films". There is virtually nothing online about them, I appreciate they are low budget B movies but they are some of my favourites, if only for their period fashions and locations, they are unpretentious at least! They also seemed to attract some famous actors e.g. Harry H Corbett, Honor Blackman, Warren Mitchell. They seem to be generally unavailable but as they seemed to be rerun constantly in the late 1990s on ITV I do have most of them on video. Am also interested in other B movies from the likes of Bryanston/British Lion/Mancunian/Theatrecraft companies. I have found the locations section particularly interesting, let's face it, most films of that era were made in London, so up here in the North East am unlikely to know easily where they were shot.

DB7

There's a few of us share your passion for low-budget second features. The best, and probably only, website I can think of is 78rpm: Films

m4sure

Hello Everyone. I'm new here as well.
My name is Maria. I have 3 kids and
one grandchild (with two more on
the way) I love the old British films.
It's a shame they aren't all on dvd
but I live in hope! lol

See you all around!

Maria

bhowells

All you devotees of british films who havent found any joy seardhing on Amazon, try mail order firms like Razmatazz and Music and Memories. They both stock a many Rank films, Arthur Askey comedies, Frankie Howard., The Huggets.
Music and Memories company have a sister company called Cinema Classics at
www.goodmusicco.uk/cinemaclassics.

Hope this of some help to you.