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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 26-08-2005, 05:11 PM
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Never tire of seeing this film - even if it's hardly ever shown on TV! Always hope that Farmer Boldwood (Peter Finch) will 'get the girl' but it never happens!

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I love this one too!

Got my copy from the Daily Mail!
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I love this one too!

Got my copy from the Daily Mail!

I want to get my hands on the Julie Christie version! Anyone know if it will be re-released?
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Old 21-03-2007, 08:08 AM
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I want to get my hands on the Julie Christie version! Anyone know if it will be re-released?
Don't think it's been officially re-released as a DVD. However I got my free DVD copy of this as a promo with the Daily Mail and they do still come up on Ebay quite cheaply (its not been remastered though!)
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There's a Region 1 DVD on sale thru Amazon USA, so apparently it's been released at some point.

If this is the poorly- or un-remastered version, maybe that's the one they're selling on EBay's.
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If there is one British film of the sixties that deserves a full bells-and-whistles restoration with loads of extra interviews, etc, while the protagonists are still with us, its this...
Bit of a Bay Window, what??
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If there is one British film of the sixties that deserves a full bells-and-whistles restoration with loads of extra interviews, etc, while the protagonists are still with us, its this...

...is anybody listening?
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It was re-released last week.

Only as part of this Julie Christie box set so far but it may be released individually.

Optimum Releasing: Julie Christie Collection - Screen Icons

Sadly, it says it's only 129 minutes long and 4:3 but the ratio could easily be a mistake. Optimum have done this before. Was The Go-Between really full screen?

On Amazon.co.uk it claims the box set runs for 489 minutes, which would be 71 minutes longer than the Optimum stated times. I also chcked with the BBFC site and see that Optimum submitted a 158 minute version which means their own website provides information that would discourage you from buying it.
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Julie Christie is sooooo beautiful in this film and Alan Bates is just perfect!
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The best 'swinging sixties' costume drama?
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A very good film, with excellent photography by Nic Roeg.
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A very good film, with excellent photography by Nic Roeg.

Excellent film and one I can watch time and time again
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One of my favourite films, superb cast, especially Alan Bates as Gabriel Oak. Can't imagine anybody else in the part.
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One of my favourite films, superb cast, especially Alan Bates as Gabriel Oak. Can't imagine anybody else in the part.
Agreed! Although Bates himself wanted the Sgt Troy role!
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If there is one British film of the sixties that deserves a full bells-and-whistles restoration with loads of extra interviews, etc, while the protagonists are still with us, its this...

Sadly not too many of them, though - Schlesinger, Alan Bates, Peter Finch all gone. Isn' this the one with Dave Swarbrick as the fiddle player ? (sorry, too lazy to get up and look at it).
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