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Best of British Films ..Short explaination

  • 30-12-2011 4:14pm
    #1
    investment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 573 ✭✭✭


    The best films I've ever seen have been british hidden gems, so I have set up this thread dedicated to the best british films you have watched .

    I'll start..

    - An education...depicting a time when life was shown to be easy

    - Awaydays...If you Love this is england, well you'll love this film


    - human traffic..48 hours in the lives of ravers, best 1999 film

    - cracks..Private school girls, show a dangours side

    More will be added;)


Comments

  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    List thread are against charter. I’ll leave this open for the time being, but any excessive listing and it’s getting locked.


  • #3
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,019 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    As above, but let me add...
    Mods stick this also

    Nope.


  • #4
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I loved 24/7, havent seen it in years though. of recent British movies I loved Harry Brown, thought it was far more interesting than Gran Turino given the similar subject matter.


  • #5
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,107 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    The suitably-titled Made In Britain is the first British film I remember really appreciating as doing something that simply wouldn't get done in an American production at the time. The whole thing is shot through with a grim, dreary sense of hopelessness and futility that might even cause Ken Loach to pause and say "Hang on a minute, that's a bit too depressing".

    Brazil is obviously also going to deserve a place in any such discussion - between the sublimely ridiculous nature of the bureaucracy it depicts, the fantastic imagery, and being one of those few films set at Christmas that don't go along with any of the usual conventions associated with Christmas films, it's a fantastic film - particularly as a counterpart to the production of 1984 that would have preceded its arrival one year earlier.

    On a slightly different note, Hellraiser is also worthy of note - for me at least it was the first horror film I saw that didn't go along with the usual slasher conventions, and was genuinely scary as a result. It was imbued with a much nastier sensibility than other 80s horrors like Friday 13th or Halloween (IMO at least), and had a cast of characters who were much more venal and selfish and as a result more realistic than those often seen in horror films.


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