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Ecoman75

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Is it only me who looks forward to rainy Sundays and good old British films like:

Whistle down the wind
Kes
Saturday night Sunday morning
Educating Rita
Billy Liar
Brief encounter
A taste of honey
The loneliness of the long distance runner
Quadrophenia

Feel free to add to my list, dont let America take all the film glory.
 
I'm sure that my feelings on siting down on a rainy Sunday watching British Hitchcock classics is well documented around here by now - 'The Lady Vanishes' is still one of my favourites of all time :)
 
Some of those films are ok but i prefer more recent brit films, football factory, lock stock mean machine, ID is one that gets very little mention but is very good. Also HUMAN TRAFFIC.........classic

does anyone know of the new film with elijah wood in where he plays a football hoolligan that is british (although it stars him in) and that looks brilliant
 
I think it's called..Green Street Something. Yeh looks ok but the Football Factory was boss..don't think it can better it.
I watched Billy Elliot on sunday..what a brilliant film. :)
 
You lot should buy a train ticket to Edinburgh for the festival. Here's an extract from today's Screenplay Europ blog:

"Films singled out for both their merit and critical reception include Richard E Grant
 
Bloody hell, A Taste of Honey with Rita Tushingham (i think it was) I though after i seen that film you could get pregnent while walking down the canal while somebody was playing the harmonica (quote from Victoria Wood) Well i thought it was funny
 
What a great thread. Yep, here are some of my best, in no particular order:

Scum
Love, Honour and Obey
Billy Elliot
Bridget Jones
Quadrophenia
East is East
The Omen
The Wicker Man
 
Mizzmozz, you would probably enjoy the current BBC4 season of vintage UK films and associated programmes. Hollywood UK has been excellent, well documenting the 60s boom in British filmmaking. The first episode was best - about films from the north, such as A Taste Of Honey, Billy Liar, This Sporting Life, Whistle Down The Wind, etc.
 
What annoys me about films made in the uk in recent years is that they are classed as "Brit films" as if genre is unimportant simply because it was made in the UK.

For example, Lock Stock isn't seen as a Gangster film, no no. It's a BRIT FILM!

The Full Monty isn't a comedy/drama based around unemployment, It's a BRIT FILM!

Not really important, but it irks me.
 
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