Your Top Three British Films

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

The English Patient - Kristin Scott Thomas got her bush out.

Dead Man's shoes - Proper grit and no sugar. The best domestic stand off.

Brazil - Proper different.

In reserve, 4 Lions if Brazil is foreign.

I had to look Brazil up and none the wiser. Some say USA backed some UK.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Have you not seen the 'alternative' version. yes alright I meant Alex but was typing on my early morning bus journey. As for the great escape, yes I know it is a yank film but with such good British actors all through it and it being mainly about British airmen, I want to claim it.

I am not taking the credit for pointing out your mistakes

 

[Brixtaan]

1. Lawrence of Arabia.
2. Kes
3. Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

Am I allowed one more?
4. Zulu

Excellent choices. Well done for squeezing in Zulu

 

[mooey]

Bridge over the river kwai
lock stock
I D

 

[Big_Unit]

I'd definitely have Colonel Blimp in there. And probably Black Narcissus. And if we're to make it a Powell and Pressburger triple-bill, which is entirely feasible, in spite of knocking out the earlier Hitchcock fare and the usually telling Mike Leigh canon and the dark comicality of the Ealing Classics, then it'd have to be A Matter of Life and Death. The expertly intertwined phantasmagorical and emotionally rich work of P&P just about win it over. Legends.

Totally this.

 

[Trufflehound]

Totally this.

I would probably agree, but just for a hint of variety:

1. A Matter of Life and Death
2. Black Narcissus
3. Great Expectations (the David Lean one, as previously nominated...)

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

This is England
Rocknrolla
Made in Britain

 

[Durlston]

Mean Machine with Vinnie Jones is very good until the last half hour of it. Predictably the convicts beat the prison staff in a football match which stops it being as great as Lock Stock.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Mean Machine with Vinnie Jones is very good until the last half hour of it. Predictably the convicts beat the prison staff which stops it being as great as Lock Stock.

Did you spot the Albion badge on the prison guvs office wall?

 

[Durlston]

Did you spot the Albion badge on the prison guvs office wall?

Yeah! Nice touch. It was made around 2001 so the early days of Withdean and winning the League Two title.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Yeah! Nice touch. It was made around 2001 so the early days of Withdean and winning the League Two title.

The same actor Ralph Brown, had an Albion shirt on in Up 'n' Under a film about rugby, I did a double take when I saw that!

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Lawrence Of Arabia
The Bridge On The River Kwai
The Third Man

Good call,all good films....like to add the original Brighton Rock with Richard Attenborough, cos my Dad was in it.