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Your Favourite British Films Name your favourite British film or make a case for an underrated classic.


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Old 01-07-2005, 08:33 PM
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I love all swinging sixties stuff - but this film has it all!
I remember going to the double feature of Wicker Man and Dont Look Now - they follow closely!

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Great film, but I seem to remember that it seemed to end before the plot developed.
Read that the Rolls Royce David Hemmings drove around in was previously owned by Peter Sellers
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Don't forget to keep an eye out for a young Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck with the Yardbirds in the swinging club, playing "Train kept a rollin". I think the track was renamed for the film?
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Don't forget to keep an eye out for a young Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck with the Yardbirds in the swinging club, playing "Train kept a rollin". I think the track was renamed for the film?
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Actually, the song was "Stroll On", which The Yardbirds play live at a Soho/Fitzrovia dive. Same melody, but different lyrics.

We tend to think of "Blow Up" as British, but it was more Italian in British clothes.
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Old 03-08-2005, 05:38 PM
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Actually, the song was "Stroll On", which The Yardbirds play live at a Soho/Fitzrovia dive. Same melody, but different lyrics.

We tend to think of "Blow Up" as British, but it was more Italian in British clothes.
Is this a British Film? The director was Italian. I guess it counts!!! I LOVE the scene with Verushka. My ex looks and acts JUST like David Hemmings in this, only taller.
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The Rolls Royce had actually belonged to Jimmy Savile of all people!!

I felt the end of the film cleverly summed up what the whole film was about but I'm saying no more, I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it!
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We tend to think of "Blow Up" as British, but it was more Italian in British clothes.
Many of the best British films of the Sixties were made by foreigners - Joseph Losey, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, Jerzy Skolimowski (Deep End) and so on. I suspect being able to see us through an outsider's eye helped enormously.
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I agree that foreign directors provide a different perspective but I don't think it applies in the case of Joseph Losey.

For me his films are pretentious and astonishingly over-rated.

But there you go!
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Another of my faves, I've visited the park many times, the first time I went the park keeper showed me around and was very helpful, he gave up his whole lunch break too!!! I posted up a couple of the pics of the park as it is today on my website: Blow-Up (1966)
I love the 1960s British films, I'm a big fan of this era.
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Great site
"I thought I had to shoot Germans, not chew 'em"
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The David Hemmings character was reputedly based on David Bailey

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Not according to David Hemmings
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No, I think that the character was an amalgam of the various celebrity snappers around at the time.

Watching Hollywood UK again the other day, Terrence Stamp was still annoyed about not getting the part himself. He was saying that Antonioni never gave him an explaination why he was dropped in favour of Hemmings. My guess is Antonioni was miffed about Stamp's "liaison" with Antonioni's girlfriend Moinica Vitti on the set of Modesty Blaise.

If someone cops off with your lady, would you give them a job?
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It was a question in the Independent on the same day as the Blow Up thread and as they used the word 'reputedly' perhaps they were unsure as well.

What I love about Blow Up though are the park scenes where the only thing to be heard are the leaves rustling and the breeze.

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My favourite Willie Rushton joke.

"I'm going to combine 'Blow Up with 'The Italian Job' to create 'Up Pompeii'."
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