Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on October 25, 2007 at 00:54:19

In Reply to: RE: Greatest British films? Here's a darn good posted by tinear on October 24, 2007 at 17:10:44

Good for Third Man and I was thrilled to see A Matter Of Life & Death, Peeping Tom, Performance, Don't Look Now, The Draughtsman's Contract, Withnail and I and If in there.

But off the top of my head, it's striking and surprising that there's no Michael Winterbottom or Paul Greengrass. Phooey!! So I says 24 Hour Party People or Welcome to Sarajevo (your choice on Winterbottom) and Bloody Sunday or United 93 for Greengrass for starters. Frears shows up only for My Beautiful Laundrette, which is stingy IMO. What about Sammy And Rosie Get Laid? The Grifters? Dirty Pretty Things? The Queen?

And I'd take out Secrets And Lies, even though it was a popular hit, and substitute Naked.

It's great to see the Archers so well represented but I Know Where I'm going has to be on any list of great British films. (I suppose they thought four from P&P was excessive.)

I don't think Ghandi, Dr. No, Goldfinger, Elizabeth or Brassed Off deserve to be on this list. No way. God, how they can have Kapur and not Winterbottom or Greengrass is pretty lame...along with Frears, Leigh, Neil Jordan and John Boorman these are pretty much the top current Brit fimmakers.

And if they can have drivel like Elizabeth and Dr. No then I could certainly have Joe Wright's rhapsodic version of Pride & Prejudice in there.

Personally, I'd probably have added The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover but I'm probably doing good to get one Greenaway on the list.

I bet if I look longer I'll find more ommissions.

That said, better over-all then AFI I think.