The Best British Film Ever?
According to 1,000 Britons polled by AOL UK, the Best British Film of All Time is Four Weddings and a Funeral, followed closely by Monty Python's Life of Brian, Trainspotting, Casino Royale, and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.
These people are idiots, plain and simple.
Not that these are bad films, but the best British films of all time? I know these are just average joes being polled, but it's a sad reminder of just how little average joes know about film, much less great film.
I would go with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes or The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp for the title of best British film of all time, although this 1999 list by the British Film Institute is pretty definitive and hard to argue with. I take issue with Colonel Blimp (#45) and Black Narcissus (#44) being listed so low, but I'm admittedly biased toward the films of The Archers.
It's interesting to see how many of the films overlap with the American Film Institutes's original 1997 list of the Best American Films of all time, showing that the qualifications to be either a British or American production are dubious at best. Can they both claim Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Clockwork Orange?
These people are idiots, plain and simple.
Not that these are bad films, but the best British films of all time? I know these are just average joes being polled, but it's a sad reminder of just how little average joes know about film, much less great film.
I would go with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes or The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp for the title of best British film of all time, although this 1999 list by the British Film Institute is pretty definitive and hard to argue with. I take issue with Colonel Blimp (#45) and Black Narcissus (#44) being listed so low, but I'm admittedly biased toward the films of The Archers.It's interesting to see how many of the films overlap with the American Film Institutes's original 1997 list of the Best American Films of all time, showing that the qualifications to be either a British or American production are dubious at best. Can they both claim Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Clockwork Orange?
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Also: Atonement, Billy Elliot, Blow-Up, The Constant Gardener, Dear Frankie, Elizabeth, Gosford Park, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Hours, If...., The Lady Vanishes, Millions, Orlando, Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Shaun of the Dead, 2001, and Wallace & Gromit.
*weird Anglophile*
My vote for favorite film ever? Stairway To Heaven (or A Matter of Life and Death).
I too am very biased when it comes to Michael Powell.