[quote]cakewalk wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]Karado wrote:
I see, in the U.S. ‘Snatch’, and ‘Lock Stock’ are a pretty well known…the others you mentioned I haven’t seen yet.
So much to catch up on…so little time.[/quote]
Yeah, I guess things like Trainspotting can hop in there too, they’re all pretty regular mentions. Scum is incredibly good, Ray Winstone was really young when he starred in it, but it’s a great kind of youth prison film.
This Is England is kind of a social narrative inspired by biographical events, kind of like a film that seems like a documentary, but isn’t. It’s a story adapted around the events of the director growing up in Britain in the ska era. Both are incredibly good, I even regarded This Is England as one of my favourite films of all time at one point, it’s dropped a couple places due to film experience and such, but still an incredible work to keep in mind.
I’d recommend for great British films, probably in this order…Trainspotting, Get Carter, This Is England, Scum, and of course everybody loves The Italian Job.
28 Days Later is a great one, and “If…”, but If… is part of a trilogy, not that it’s so much confined to that, but I feel it does work best in accordance with the other two.
Shaun Of The Dead is kind of a slapstick horror that I adore, you’ve likely already heard of it along with it’s “spiritual successor” Hot Fuzz, the final film in what is called the “Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy” (A delightful nod to the Kieslowski trilogy “Three Colours”, [PS: Red is my favourite]) comes out in two months time, if you can I’d recommend seeing the other two shortly before in time for the third, at least that’s what I’m going to do.
Those are mostly the pretty obvious ones, I could get a little more obscure if need be, but all are very good films.[/quote]
Kahuna, you’ve inspired me to find and watch “Britannia Hospital.” I’m pretty certain that “If…” and “O Lucky Man” are readily available on Netflix. Haven’t watched either for years. I suppose I should organise a Lindsay Anderson/Malcolm McDowell marathon evening, and see if I can rope in a few other diehard fans of that particular brand of absurdist black comedy.[/quote]
Yeah I’m sure they will be, is Britannia Hospital missing from Netflix then? I love the first two, If… in particular is my favourite. I feel Britannia Hospital is the least memorable of the three, probably by a heavy margin, but is not necessarily a bad watch. In any case revisiting the other two is a great idea, one I might have to take on again myself.
Rather hard to get a Malcolm McDowell marathon going isn’t it? After A Clockwork Orange and the Anderson films, all you’re left with is the occasional odd film like Time After Time or Bopha (directed by Morgan Freeman, a film about the apartheid, it’s pretty good). There’s kind of a black gore-comedy that came out recently called Excision that he’s in. Strange film that one, I feel it could go either way depending on your personality, worth a look to check I guess. It’s a risky one, but if you get a group together, you could throw it on and cross your fingers that everyone “gets” it.
