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prompted by the realisation that the last British film I saw that I thought was good was Sexy Beast. I've heard good about Morvern Callar though. What do you consider to be a good if not great British film from the last six years - you can include The Full Monty if you wish.

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 13 September 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(and 24 Hour Party People, and Lock Stock & Snatch if generous, which i am)

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 13 September 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

1997
Career Girls
The Full Monty

1998
42 Up
Elizabeth
My Name Is Joe

1999
8 1/2 Women
Ratcatcher
Topsy Turvy

2000
Snatch

2001-2003
?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 13 September 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

28 Days Later
Felicia's Journey
haha Pirates of the Caribbean

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 13 September 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

28 Days Later appears to be a real love it/loathe it film (like the Guy Ritchie films perhaps), i've yet to see it

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 13 September 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I would mention "Christie Malry's Own Double Entry" here, only that I still haven't seen it, so I don't actually know if it's as good as it sounds (repressed young man extracts revenge against society in increasingly severe ways, culminating in killing millions of Londoners by posioning a reservoir). I probably would have if it had actually got a proper release. I think it's on DVD now, so I'll have to get it - I do seem to remember a lot of people saying it's nowhere near as good as the book, tho...

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Saturday, 13 September 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw the first 20 minutes of '...Double Entry' at Glastonbury 2002, it didn't seem very good but i was kind of compelled all the same.

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 13 September 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

HARRY POTTER you fuddyduddies

― jones (actual), Saturday, 13 September 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

That double entry thing isn't a porno, then?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 13 September 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"I do seem to remember a lot of people saying it's nowhere near as good as the book, tho..."

this film was a horrifying let down after i'd read the book and been listening to the Luke Haines soundtrack for a while.. the director inserted this utterly bizarre and completely pointless travel-back-in-time sub-plot and Moran unforgiveably plays Malry as a retard because he doesn't have the depth as an actor to play the character has he is in the book - intelligent but misguided, single-minded but with muddled motives.

They should have let Haines direct. and script. and star.

― Wyndham Earl, Saturday, 13 September 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

dirty pretty things, which I saw last night and was excellent.

morvern callar is one of my favorite films ever.

felicia's journey is neither British nor very good (Egoyan is Canadian. I guess it might have been filmed in the UK but does that make is a British film?)

Is About a Boy British? US directors, english cast.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 13 September 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Now this is an British film (well, British and partially German) that I'd like to see:

http://bak.spc.org/maldoror/

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Monday, 15 September 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

That double entry thing isn't a porno, then?

I rented '...Double Entry' recently (it's pretty good!) but the disc was faulty so I took it back to the shop. The teenager ned who works there took one look at the title and boggled at the thought that his shop were stocking such stuff. He told me I was entitled to a free rental because of the faulty disc, so I took out 'The 400 Blows' - which merely confirmed my pervdom, judging by his expression.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 15 September 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

'Twin Town' = classic

(is 'Essex Boys' any good? I love cheap, nasty shit-ass exploitation flicks btw)

― dave q, Monday, 15 September 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Morvern Callar is rubbish! We had a thread. The most disappointing follow-up to a GREAT debut ever. (That last sentence may be untrue.) Now, Ratcatcher, mmmmm.

― David. (Cozen), Monday, 15 September 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

dirty pretty things is pretty good

(i wz a bit disappointed when i watched first on video - but its feel has really stayed with me)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 15 September 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought 28 Days Later was just okay, which blows the love it/hate it idea. Great first half. Second half goes apeshit and incoherent in its attempt to make a not particularly illuminating point about human nature. Terrific soundtrack, though.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Monday, 15 September 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

A Room For Romeo Brass

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 September 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and Mrs Brown which I loved, even though it probably doesn't get much love anywhere else.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 September 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Croupier was excellent.

Can I take this opportunity to say that I do not understand what the British see in Guy Ritchie films (well, Lock Stock in particular). There seems to be a some kind of cultural delay whereby the English were still enamoured with Tarantinoisms long after that was exhausted over here by oversaturation, and were really happy to have their own hack director take a stab at it. Admittedly I only saw the director's cut of this film on DVD while really jetlagged, but I thought it was one of the most boring films I'd ever seen at the time.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 15 September 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.horrorseek.com/horror/tonyrivers/tfos01.jpg

― Dada, Monday, 15 September 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, I forgot about Croupier. That was good :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 September 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The Warrior. 24 Hour PP. In This World.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I really loved Wonderland - lots of lovely DV footage of London, Gina McKee and a great score by Michael Nyman.

― bert (bert), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Looking forawrd to Michael Winterbootoms new sci-fi film. Only his eighth film in five years...

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

Has anyone else seen Dean Spanley (2008)? A very entertaining little oddity starring Peter O'Toole, Sam Neill and Bryan Brown, set in Edwardian England, about a man who regresses to his past life as a dog. I'd recommend it, it's charming and unique.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Sunday, 10 January 2010 19:32 (fifteen years ago)

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