Just seen someone post about I want Candy and it got me thinking, what are people's favourite British Films?

Mine has to be a film called Dead Man's Shoes, by Shane Meadows, its a great example of British films which make you think, are well directed and show the class of talent we have here.

Hopefully we can discuss British cinema here and find out about some films which otherwise we may not have heard about.

Just seen someone post about I want Candy and it got me thinking, what are people's favourite British Films?

Mine has to be a film called Dead Man's Shoes, by Shane Meadows, its a great example of British films which make you think, are well directed and show the class of talent we have here.

What are yours?

Same here. I love that film. I even referenced it when choosing a name for a band I'm in. Some of the dialogue is hilarious. Especially the 'Get in your car and f*** off' bit.

Anything that doesn't have Hugh Grant or Emma Thompson in it.

I was looking on IMDB the other day, and I saw this:

"This film can be summed up with this one quote..

"What you looking at?"
"You, you c**t"

I think thats rather apt.

My favourite British film is still Gregory's Girl

"Anyway, if girls were meant to play football they'd have their tits somewhere else" :hihi:

passport to pimlico :thumbsup:

Get Carter - dark, bleak and excellent.

I agree that Dead Man's Shoes was great.

Just seen someone post about I want Candy and it got me thinking, what are people's favourite British Films?

Mine has to be a film called Dead Man's Shoes, by Shane Meadows, its a great example of British films which make you think, are well directed and show the class of talent we have here.

Hopefully we can discuss British cinema here and find out about some films which otherwise we may not have heard about.

Theres so many,i love four weddings and a funeral, jack and sarah,lock stock and two smoking barrels,when saturday comes (even if its a united film lol), The full Monty.
If i had to pick one i think it would have to be the full monty seeing as it was filmed in Sheffield.

Dead Man's Shoes - best British film in yonks and yonks.

Not sure it edges past 'The Wicker Man' in my all time list - but it's close.

Yeah, Dead Man's Shoes and Shane's preceding Film, A Room for Romeo Brass.

I'm actually really glad that people have seen Dead Man's Shoes, I've been seemingly on a one woman mission to get as many people as I can to see it. Hasn't worked very well so far :(

A Canterbury Tale

I'm actually really glad that people have seen Dead Man's Shoes, I've been seemingly on a one woman mission to get as many people as I can to see it. Hasn't worked very well so far :(

"This is England" Meadows latest film about skinheads is supposed to be astonishing. Can't wait.

I've seen the adverts on film4 and I've been keeping an eye out for it. I'm really looking forward to it. Its with people like Shane Meadows churning out great film after great film that I get aggrevated with the film industry, who are all too happy to ram happy, fake, glamourised hollywood films down our throats without even a nod to the genius that's around.

I'm actually really glad that people have seen Dead Man's Shoes, I've been seemingly on a one woman mission to get as many people as I can to see it. Hasn't worked very well so far :(
I interviewed Shane in the foyer of the Edinburgh Sheraton when he was premiering the film. I'll PM you the link if you like?

I interviewed Shane in the foyer of the Edinburgh Sheraton when he was premiering the film. I'll PM you the link if you like?

I'd like a read of that. Why not stick it up on here, everyone seems to love the film.

I'd like a read of that. Why not stick it up on here, everyone seems to love the film.


I agree, stick it up.

Why not stick it up on here
Because it means revealing my true identity. Ah, why not:

http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/articles/shanemeadows.php

As it's intended to look - there's various odds and ends included with it.

Because it means revealing my true identity. Ah, why not:

http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/articles/shanemeadows.php

As it's intended to look - there's various odds and ends included with it.

Well, I've not had a chance to read it all, but I had a quick scan through and it looks a fantastic interview. I just read the bit about how it's loosely based on his mate when he was younger.

Well done!

Cheers! It was an amazing experience - I got about 3,000 words out of Shane in around 30 minutes. If it wasn't for his publicist I reckon he would have sat there ranting all day. Top, top man.

It was a while back now, and some of the writing's a bit inexperienced but it's a fairly comprehensive package. It's linked to from Shane's own site, which is a plus.

A Canterbury Tale

Dead Mans' Shoes - Shane Meadows

Gandhi - Richard Attenborough

Trainspotting - Danny Boyle

Withnail & I - Bruce Robinson

The Madness of King George - Nicholas Hytner

My Left Foot - Jim Sheridan

A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick

The Wicker Man - Robin Hardy

Scum - Alan Clarke

Human Traffic - Justin Kerrigan

ID - Phillip Davis

24 Hour Party People - Michael Winterbottom

Sexy Beast - Jonathan Glazer

Odd Man Out

A Matter of Life and Death

The Red Shoes

Dead mans shoes was excellent....and a steal at just 4 quid :thumbsup:

Trainspotting.

To Catch A Thief

North By Northwest

Rear Window

All by Alfred Hitchcock - British director

Casino Royale

Ok you will all hate me...........
1 - Lock Stock & 2 SB
2 - Jack & Sarah

Love, honour and obey - Ray Winstone, Jude Law, Kathy Burke and loads more, pure class!

Contemporary - Trainspotting

Vintage - Kind Hearts and Coronets

Lawrence of Arabia

Kes

Long Good Friday

Life of Brian

Zulu

The Italian Job

Day of the Jackal

Goldfinger

Casino Royale

Get Carter

Trainspotting

Lock Stock

Snatch

Quadrophenia

Sexy Beast

The Business

Sorry. Can't pick a favourite. :P

It's not the best British film of all time, but my favourite is 'Jack and Sarah'. It's lovely.

pride and prejudice


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I'm not a film person at all, but I do love sort of 'Northern gritty' stuff, like "Rita, Sue, and Bob Too", or a really underrated black comedy, "Raining Stones" ........ but I'll still doff my cap tp "Passport To Pimlico", and "Whisky Galore"

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old but had fields of the nephlin kark maccoy in iy
:D

Georgy Girl

The Family Way

Sexy Beast

Billy Elliot

:) Sierra

passport to pimlico was good but for me it's got to be

The Lady Killers
a great cast, a well told story full of pathos, good overcoming bad, What a film!

just a pity hollywood decided to ruin it

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Didn't that come out of the US studio system?

Didn't that come out of the US studio system?

I thought so too, but there have been three film versions

Too many to name, but for me, the classic British--or perhaps English--film was Brief Encounter: no sex, but boy, was the tension there, a perfectly understated exploration of the desire for a more exciting life at a time when people were so repressed by the social order. Of course it is middle class, so if I had to go for a portrayal of the working class as it was, then the kitchen sink dramas of the 60s would represent those, like A Taste of Honey (mind you, I always had a thing for Rita Tushingham). For the acme of sentimental family drama I suppose there is The Railway Children (but mind you, I also had a thing for Jenny Agutter!).

It has to be Trainspotting

This is Spinal Tap

The Ladykillers, a 1955 British film with Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner and Katie Johnson.

An absolutely brilliant bit of work.

1. Scum

2. Kes

3 Threads

4 Krays

Many more but these are quality to me.

If.........

My faves are:-

Krays
Scum
28 days later
Lock Stock
Trainspotting
Nil by mouth

Scrooge starring Alistar Sim

A few British DVDs from my collection:

Get Carter
The long good Friday
28 days later
The Ipcress File
The wicker man
Who dares wins
Shaun of the dead
The ladykillers
Dog soldiers
The spy who came in from the cold

Are the first 2 pink panther films British?

Nil By Mouth is pretty good.....

Dead Man's Shoes, top film!:thumbsup:

I liked Layer Cake too.

"Dead mans shoes" has to be the best film ever. hard hitting stuff but **** funny aswell!

A few British DVDs from my collection:

Get Carter
The long good Friday
28 days later
The Ipcress File
The wicker man
Who dares wins
Shaun of the dead
The ladykillers
Dog soldiers
The spy who came in from the cold

Are the first 2 pink panther films British?

Are you referring to the Lewis Collins film Who Dares Wins ?
I loved that film, even though looking back the actings dodgy and the storyline is poor. Specially for the main theme which kicks in every time the SAS have screentime. I think the tracks called jennys theme.....excellent.

Saturday night and sunday morning.
cruel sea.

I forgot about Kes and 28 Days Later. Also excellent films!

A taste of honey, with Rita Tushingham. Great stuff.

A taste of honey, with Rita Tushingham. Great stuff.

I agree entirely--see my post above:)

1: Full Monty
2: Kes
3: My Fair Lady (OK it was a "Hollywood" style all the trimmings production but it was as English as they come so yeh)
4: All 4 current Harry Potters

Currently. Shaun of the dead

I forgot to add the foillowing to my list.

Jack and Sarah
About a Boy
Four Weddings and a Funeral

All of which have one major thing in common, Hugh Grant's in them.

So many good ones but it's got to be Trainspotting. It's just so iconic, and a great soundtrack!