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Re: very nice (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
I only gently suggested it on the message board, does that count as "pointing"?!?!? :-D
Hope you enjoy some that might not be so well known over the ocean. I'm sure there're tons of good films I've missed too, though there's a lot of lottery-funded dross being made in the UK these days too :-(
Thanks for stopping by!!
CaptainD
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Apr 19 '08
7:35 am PDT
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very nice (Reply to this comment)
by shopaholic_man
I will check some of these films out, many I have not seen. I'm pretty sure I saw Dr. No, but many of the others, I haven't! Great List, thanks for pointing me to it.
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Apr 18 '08
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Re: Interesting List. (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Okay I've revised it, I'm not going to argue with both you and Stephen, after all both of you know much more about films than I do!
Sadly, SOAT is going to have to find another list to live in... :-(
CaptainD
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Dec 13 '06
8:54 am PST
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Interesting List. (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
But I'm afraid that I agree with Stephen here. You really should knock STRANGERS ON A TRAIN out of your list. The setting is in America; the stars are American; and Patricia Highsmith, the author, was born in Fort Worth, Texas! By your reasoning, NORTH BY NORTH WEST, PSYCHO, and all Hitchcock's pictures would be British because he was born in England.
Are we to assume, then, that CASABLANCA is a German or an Austro-Hungarian film because of where Michael Curtiz came from?
I like you list well enough otherwise, but I would knock STRANGERS ON A TRAIN out of it. Just doesn't fit.
All the best.
Alex -- Macresarf1
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Dec 12 '06
7:03 pm PST
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Re: Help! I'm stuck in the '80s.... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
I don't remember that series at all, but I would have been pretty young at the time! Sorry, can't compare the two at all.
CaptainD
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Nov 27 '06
2:43 pm PST
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Re: I used to think.... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
I saw far worse at my school (an all boys school), and I expect you're right about them being really tame nowadays. Still fun though.
CaptainD
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Nov 27 '06
2:42 pm PST
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Re: hey (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
I just don't get "British Films" being a genre bnut not "French etc etc... maybe we're justSpeshul over here?!?!?
CaptainD
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Nov 27 '06
2:41 pm PST
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Re: Great list! (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
I heard that too about TLHM... can't see it working but I suppose you never know...
CaptainD
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Nov 27 '06
2:40 pm PST
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Help! I'm stuck in the '80s.... (Reply to this comment)
by jc_hall
...because all I can remember is Brideshead Revisited's most dishy Anthony Andrews (I loved Aloysius) as the Scarlet Pimpernel! I didn't even know they remade it with Richard E. Grant. Did you watch both versions? Is the newer one better or just different?
JC (agog)
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Nov 26 '06
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hey (Reply to this comment)
by jankp
Love Alec Guinness. About A Boy was a delight. Also loved Stangers on a Train. I too wish there was categories for the different countries.
Jan
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Nov 04 '06
11:38 pm PST
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I used to think.... (Reply to this comment)
by 42ENGLISH
the girls of St. Trinians were sooo baaad when I was a kid. They would be angels these days. lol. Great list but I would have to add To Sir, with love, Alfie and the Trap w/Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham. I also liked The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. I think the 60's and 70's brought some of the best British movies ever made.
Great read.
Julie
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Nov 04 '06
7:40 pm PST
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Great list! (Reply to this comment)
by telynor,  in Movies
I adore The Lavender Hill Mob, and I think you're absolutely right about why these jewels should never be remade. Somehow, something essential gets lost, and the remakes almost always seem to be pasty, stupid affairs. I'm going to have check out a few of these now. Sadly, I've heard that LHM is going to be 'modernized' in the future. -- Telynor
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Nov 04 '06
11:46 am PST
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About "About A Boy"... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
I just remember seeing some really angry complaints about someone including that in their top ten British film list, so I was pre-empting the same thing here!! :-D
CaptainD
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Nov 04 '06
6:39 am PST
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I loved... (Reply to this comment)
by 1truluv
About a Boy..no complaints from me! Great job.
Louise
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Nov 04 '06
4:17 am PST
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About a boy... (Reply to this comment)
by zenmachado
was purty sweet!
ZeN
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Nov 03 '06
7:04 pm PST
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Re: I guarantee (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Oops... typo... corrected now...
Pinewood Studios was British...
Scottish is still British...
IMDB list country of origin as British...
Ian Fleming was British...
So I'm sticking with Dr No as a British film!
Strangers on a Train only made my list because of Hitchcock, but it kind of goes to prove my point early on in the review that classifying a review as "British" is kind of a difficult thing to do...
Thanks for the comment!
CaptainD
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Nov 03 '06
10:56 am PST
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I guarantee (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
"School for Scandal" was written some years after the Norman Conquest.
I don't see how "Strangers on a Train" is British. The British Hitchcock movie I'd select is "The Lady Vanishes." And if "Dr. No" is British rather than Hollywood (with a Scottish leading man...), "Lawrence of Arabia" should qualify.
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Nov 03 '06
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