Empire's 100 Best British Films Ever

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It is a pretty good compilation if you don't take the ranking into consideration.

For e.g., Brazil at #93 will make your hair stand. Dracula at #90, Lock, Stock at #75, Chariots of Fire at #63, etc., all are glaring mistakes in terms of ranks, IMO.

But overall, as a list it is a pretty noteworthy project.

Take a look - http://www.empireonline.com/100britishfilms/

[Elvis_Christ]

Nil By Mouth should be ranked higher than it is on that list. One of the finest films of the 90s. It's one of the flicks that shaped my tastes in cinema.

No Get Carter? ...or did I miss it?

I guess they were TV films but Made In Britain, Scum and Meantime are totally kingshit flicks that really get that grim realism down. No sugarcoating. Maybe they just have a more appreciating audience overseas?

I was never really happy with the adaption of Trainspotting. Quite a neutered approach to Welsh's work. It's a bit flawed but The Acid House was a lot better.

Shit like Four Weddings and The Full Monty makes me fucking cringe... lots of really dry and safe stuff listed too that for me illustrates reasons not to like UK's cinematic output.

Gimme Harry Brown over Harry Potter :D

[roshiq]

I really need to watch again classics like Gandhi & Lawrence of Arabia. Saw them last so many years ago that I can hardly able to recall this great films now.

Gimme Harry Brown over Harry Potter :D

Ditto. Haven't still seen any of the Potter films though.:o

Surprised to see films like Hot Fuzz & Monsters ahead of so many great films and not including film like 10 Rillington Place is clearly a great error, IMO.

Other than that I can recall (seen actually) only following 28 films from the list:


Brazil (93)
Dracula (90)
The Lady Vanishes (82)
The King’s Speech (79)
Lock, Stock & 2 smoking Barrels (75)
Atonement (73)
Casino Royale (70)
Blow-Up (69)
Hunger (65)
Peeping Tom (65)
Slumdog Millionaire (64)
The 39 steps (52)
Hot Fuzz (50)
The Wicker Man (47)
Monsters (41)
The Italian Job (39)
The Descent (38)
28 days later (37)
Dead Man’s Shoes (27)
Moon (24)
Rebecca (23)
Goldfinger (16)
Bridge on the River Kawai (15)
The Third Man (14)
A Clockwork Orange (11)
Trainspotting (8)
Shaun of the Dead (6)
Don’t Look Now (4)

[ZombieDrone]

Brazil needed to be MUCH higher, probably within the top 20.

Lawrence Of Arabia is a classic though, one of my all-time favourite films.

Also, where was Stanley Kubrick's stuff? (Admittedly that could be argued to not be British, but it's every bit as British as American or anything else)

[neverending]

Clockwork Orange is there.

[TheWickerFan]

Not as good as the British Film Institute's Top 100, but only a couple of omissions that really should have been there:

The Crying Game
The Day Of The Jackal

[ZombieDrone]

Clockwork Orange is there.

Fair play, but there's still 2001, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon...

[hammerfan]

Fair play, but there's still 2001, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon...

Full Metal Jacket isn't a British film.

[ZombieDrone]

It is according to IMDb. I may be wrong, but I assumed the vast majority of everyting Kubrick did from the 60's onwards was at least in part British as, with the exception of his casting and distribution, he remained largely British-based and most of his films were both British and American.

But it can be a tricky business.

[hammerfan]

It is according to IMDb. I may be wrong, but I assumed the vast majority of everyting Kubrick did from the 60's onwards was at least in part British as, with the exception of his casting and distribution, he remained largely British-based and most of his films were both British and American.

But it can be a tricky business.

My bad. Sorry. I'll shut up now. :D

[neverending]

I don't think anything by Lindsay Anderson was on there either. (I may be mistaken)

[neverending]

I also don't recall seeing any of the Janus Films productions of the George Bernard Shaw works.

[ZombieDrone]

I don't think anything by Lindsay Anderson was on there either. (I may be mistaken)

Really? I would've imagined If... would've been on there.

[SteyrAUG]

LOL. Didn't a few of you get a bit upset with me when I made similar observations and criticisms of various HDC film lists and rankings?

[neverending]

You're still missing the point (probably willfully). It was the method of expression that got people riled.

[SteyrAUG]

You're still missing the point (probably willfully). It was the method of expression that got people riled.

Yeah, I think a LOT of people read into my comments and found things that just weren't there. I didn't call anybody anything, I simply questioned why some titles were included.

I criticized many of the films, but not people in particular.

[neverending]

That's true, since you went back and edited your post.

[SteyrAUG]

That's true, since you went back and edited your post.


And to remind you a second time, edits were done to ADD information. I never called anyone anything and then edited my post to remove it. I only added info because people were suggesting I was trying to say many things that I was NOT.

I never made anything along the lines of personal attacks, only suggested whoever put lists together didn't seem to take things very seriously which resulted in a questionable list, more or less exactly what some have done here.

But I was still treated to the dogpile because people "believed" I said things on a personal level, insinuated many things I did not and in one case because they thought I was some previously banned member with an axe to grind with this forum.

http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58812

[newb]

And to remind you a second time, edits were done to ADD information. I never called anyone anything and then edited my post to remove it. I only added info because people were suggesting I was trying to say many things that I was NOT.

I never made anything along the lines of personal attacks, only suggested whoever put lists together didn't seem to take things very seriously which resulted in a questionable list, more or less exactly what some have done here.

But I was still treated to the dogpile because people "believed" I said things on a personal level, insinuated many things I did not and in one case because they thought I was some previously banned member with an axe to grind with this forum.

http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58812

paranoid much?

Marley never mentioned any names

[SteyrAUG]

paranoid much?

Marley never mentioned any names

And yet it is obvious who was the subject.