British films

Oh I like the sound of some of these. Love anything with thora hird.
I’ve just watched lost for words. I’m not criticising newer films just enjoying the nostalgia.

Kind Hearts and Coronets is in my top 10 of all films, ever! Powell and press burger's portrayal of Englishness is peerless.

"A Matter of Life and Death" with David Niven and Roger Livesey
"Went the Day Well" with Melvyn Johns and Thora Hurd
"Dead of Night" with Googie Withers and Michael Redgrave
"An Inspector Calls" with Alistair Sim and Bryan Forbes
and many more.

keepingquiet

Local Hero is one of my favourite films- helped by Mark Knopfler's score of course!

It’s an absolute classic. I might find that I start watching and realise I have seen it at one time.

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Far from the maddening crowd, original version with Alan bates.

Alan Bates and Terence Stamp in one film , phew

Local Hero is one of my favourite films- helped by Mark Knopfler's score of course!

Far from the maddening crowd, original version with Alan bates.

I’ve never watched Local Hero, and I realised that I’ve got a dvd of it…it was free in a newspaper years ago.

A good British film that was way ahead of its time was Gergory's Girl, a comedy about a Scottish girl who plays football. Nothing unusual about girls playing football these days, but in 1980 it was almost unheard of and makes the film unique.

I misunderstood. I went on the thread title!

I've watched the missing postman a couple of times nice gentle watch

keepingquiet

Why all the focus on old films- there are so many good recent films too!

I think because the OP was alerting us to films that can be found on utube and they tend to be older films that some of us have seen in the past and would like to see again?

I liked come rain, come shine too

keepingquiet

Why all the focus on old films- there are so many good recent films too!

I’m with you 🤷‍♀️

Liked Belonging, now watching Come Rain Come Shine

belonging is on prime so I'm going to watch it no before my husband gets home from work

Why all the focus on old films- there are so many good recent films too!

Good question Seabear.

Because there is a very strong connection between the British and Dinard, where around the turn of the last century, wealthy British people used to come to the town to bathe. Several roads are named after people like Churchill, and there is a British church, the only one in Brittany I believe. The film festival is in its 36th year. The red carpet comes out and all the usual paraphernalia. Some great films have been premiered there, if I remember correctly Billy Elliot.

Just to say, it's NOT a fish and chip type resort. It's very classy.

escaped

Anyone interested in British films should go to the British Film Festival in Dinard, Brittany in the Autumn. It's a bit like going to the Cannes Festival in May! There are some great new British films released, often made on a small budget. I go regularly, and was at the premier of The Queen with Helen Mirren about 20 years ago.
French school kids often turn up in groups to spend the day watching British films at the cinema. The French seem to love British films and TV programmes which they buy up.

Why is a British film festival held in Brittany?

In love the old Powell and Pressburger films - “Stairway to Heaven” with David Niven; “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” with Roger Livesey; and my favourite “I Know Where I’m Going” also with Roger Livesey. A bit old hat, but very engaging.

The Talking Pictures channel shows a lot of of old British films.

BBC 1 (or 2) seem to be showing old films on Saturday afternoon at the moment. Probably because the football has finished. Not necessarily British. All about Eve with Bette Davies was on last Saturday. Prior to the film there was a programme with several interviews with Bette Davies through her life - with interviewers such as Parkinson, Terry Wogan.

I think you can probably watch them on BBC IPlayer as well

Anyone interested in British films should go to the British Film Festival in Dinard, Brittany in the Autumn. It's a bit like going to the Cannes Festival in May! There are some great new British films released, often made on a small budget. I go regularly, and was at the premier of The Queen with Helen Mirren about 20 years ago.
French school kids often turn up in groups to spend the day watching British films at the cinema. The French seem to love British films and TV programmes which they buy up.

I think our film industry is seriously underrated and even in the dog years later in the seventies, there were still a few gems being made. I watched the film version of The Likely Lads recently and the bitter sweet, melancholic hunour and the bedroom farce near the end is still excellent.

I’ve just watched happy since I met you with julie Walter’s And written by the lovely Victoria wood. Definitely worth a look.

I’ve found several things on utube that I thought I would never get to see again. A sweet little film called The Shutter Falls ( which I think several other directors were influenced by), a Gabriel Byrne film set in Ireland and a cartoon of The Snow Queen that I watched as a child and was desperate to see again. Oh and also A Dog of Flanders, another film from my childhood. It makes me loathe to get rid of the many things I’ve recorded over the years because some of them were only on utube because someone somewhere had recorded it. There are also episodes of Take Three Girls and Love For Lydia. It’s so bitter sweet watching them again.