Top 49 British films as per Barry Norman

[SeagullSongs]

Going across genres here's your next 6 IMHO.

Dam Busters.
Ladykillers.
The Long Good Friday.
Brian
Kwai
Kes or Carter.

 

[Stat Brother]

I put in a comedy and didn't recheck your post and just slung in the best.

That gives you Kes and Carter.

 

[5mins-from-amex]

monty pythons, life of brian?

 

[Stat Brother]

monty pythons, life of brian?

That was already in SS's list.

 

[Questions]

Gregory's girl ? He's lost it hasn't he. How that film got all that critical acclaim I will never know.

I'd rather put in something like A Private Function in there if only for Maggie Smiths performance.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I adored The Third Man since childhood, but in the last few years i've fallen into an eternal love with The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. A glorious tale of love, war and friendship and largely about one's growing irrelevance the more time moves around one without us barely noticing. Powell and Pressburger permanent legends.

 

[vegster]

DMS is okay, but beyond Consadine it's hardly top rate acting. It's one of those films you watch and think how much better and slicker it could have been.

At least he got Trainspotting in there. Classic. Sightseers from this year should definitely be on that list.

I'm with you on Sightseers, maybe because it has just come out it dipped under his radar?

 

[SeagullSongs]

I put in a comedy and didn't recheck your post and just slung in the best.

That gives you Kes and Carter.

Cheers, I'll add them to the list.

 

[vegster]

Just remembered another classic, Tunes of Glory

 

[Stat Brother]

I adored The Third Man since childhood, but in the last few years i've fallen into an eternal love with The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. A glorious tale of love, war and friendship and largely about one's growing irrelevance the more time moves around one without us barely noticing. Powell and Pressburger permanent legends.

I'm pretty sure Blimp is one of my 19.

I watched The Third Man again towards the end of last year, it's very good nicely atmospheric with the obvious soundtrack, to boot.

My 'lesser' highlight, for want of a better word as we are talking about the bestest films, would be The Ladykillers.
I always enjoyed that when it was on TV.

 

[Stat Brother]

Cheers, I'll add them to the list.

Looking at my list again, it's hardly across genre.

2 war, 2 'it's really grim up north', and 2, albeit absolute polar opposite, gangster movies.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Witchfinder General ?

 

[smillie's garden]

What no Wicker Man?!

 

[jakarta]

I adored The Third Man since childhood, but in the last few years i've fallen into an eternal love with The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. A glorious tale of love, war and friendship and largely about one's growing irrelevance the more time moves around one without us barely noticing. Powell and Pressburger permanent legends.

There are three Powell & Pressburger Films in there already including my all time favourite A Matter of Life and Death but as no. 50 I would add a fourth - A Canterbury Tale

 

[drew]

Shawshank Redmeption isn't there which I thought is surprising! (edit: Doh, just re read the list, not british)
I would however put love Actually above four weddings although not convinced they should be in the top 50.


As for the list, think I have seen 34 of them.

 

[jakarta]

There are three Powell & Pressburger Films in there already including my all time favourite A Matter of Life and Death but as no. 50 I would add a fourth - A Canterbury Tale

Well that is skim reading for you!

There are actually five Powell & Pressburger films in the list, ahead of David Lean (4), Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Lindsay Anderson and Mike Leigh (all 2)

 

[KZNSeagull]

Got dragged along to a double bill of Gregory's Girl and Chariots of Fire at the cinema in East Grinstead by my parents. As I was 14 at the time, I much preferred Gregory's Girl and I think my mother did too, but she was not allowed to admit it!

 

[Trufflehound]

David Lean's 1948 version of Oliver Twist should be on there too. I know he's got 4 other films on the list so shouldn't be greedy, but in my opinion it's the 2nd best Dickens film adaptation ever. After Lean's Great Expectations, which did make the list.

Oh, and since it's being discussed, I really like Gregory's Girl. But then I've had a thing for Clare Grogan for the past 30-odd years...

 

[The Large One]

No-one's mentioned a great low-budget film (set in Brighton) from 2010 just yet. It's gone under many people's radar, it seems...

Down Terrace.

 

[jakarta]

David Lean's 1948 version of Oliver Twist should be on there too. I know he's got 4 other films on the list so shouldn't be greedy, but in my opinion it's the 2nd best Dickens film adaptation ever. After Lean's Great Expectations, which did make the list.

Oh, and since it's being discussed, I really like Gregory's Girl. But then I've had a thing for Clare Grogan for the past 30-odd years...

As my no.50 would be Canterbury Tale by Powell & Pressburger that would make 6 by them so I am clearly even more greedy than you....

Clare Grogan? You are showing your age - Shirley Ann Field and Alexandra Bastedo plus Daniela Binachi (From Russia with Love) if you don't mind....