The 100 best British movies We spoke to over 150 movie experts and writers to put together this definitive list of British films Tuesday 15 October 2024 Share Written by Phil de Semlyen Global film editor British cinema is as diverse and ever-shifting as the country itself. In 2024, it enco...
“The British are coming,” trumpetedChariots Of Firescreenwriter Colin Welland infamously at the 1982 Oscars. In truth “the British” were already there. They’d been making movies for over a century, with plenty of stick-on masterpieces in that number. Comedies, dramas, war films, horror....
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Robert Murphy's "Sixties British Cinema" is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the late '50s and early '60s was anything but dreary and depressing, and gave birth to a clutch of films remarkable for their confiden...
the British film musical. In fact, British cinema was buoyant on and off throughout this decade and held its own in the home market against Hollywood imports.1Musicals, like most other British films, had many similarities to Hollywood films and followed similar genres, although with a varying ...
Manor,and it’s produced by Eleven Films, the same company behindSex Education.Judy Berman of Time Magazineapplauds the series for its “keen observations about young people, social media, and surveillance without getting pedantic.”Red Roseis a fresh, modern, tech-savvy take on the horror ...
Known as the “Master of Suspense,” Alfred Hitchcock was one of the most famous film directors of the 20th century. He directed more than 50 feature-length films from the1920sinto the1970s. Hitchcock’s image, seen during Hitchcock’s frequent cameos in his own films and before each episo...
dropping our jaws and making us rewrite our impressions of drab British cinema. These thoughts are triggered by yet another handful of British postwar classics of the late 1940s and ’50s arriving on Blu-ray to put paid to the old libels. Let’s take the films in the order of public ...
These round out the inadvertenthomage au Hugh Grant, as he puts it, and make him very probably the only actor going with four feature films out at once--considering that he’s still on screens with his small part in “The Remains of the Day,” as the grown godson whom Anthony Hopkins...
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