Best five films from British Directors (Part One A to J)
May 28, 2017 20:48:45 GMT
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Post by london777 on May 28, 2017 20:48:45 GMT
The purpose of this thread is to stimulate a discussion of British films and hopefully encourage members to watch some with which they are not already familiar.
Choose five from my suggestions and/or suggest your own titles in the thread. "Si Dios quiere" (as they say here on Devil's Island) I will later add films from British directors whose surnames begin with K to Z.
Who qualifies as "British"? There is an easy rule to decide. They are British if I say so. So no Charlie Chaplin (born and lived in England up to the age of 17) who made all his major films in the USA.
I could have claimed Stanley Kubrick, who moved to England to make Lolita in 1961, and rarely left his home, let alone the country, for the next forty years until his death. (I always thought it was ironic that he moved to England to film Nabokov's love letter to the USA, and stayed, whereas a comparable genius, Hitchcock, moved to the US to make that most English of stories, Rebecca, and stayed.) And Kubrick's films became more "European" from the time of the move. But Kubrick's films are well enough known not to need a plug in this thread.
With Hitchcock, I include only those films he made when he was a British citizen (up to 1955).
Please pick your five favorites from my list and mention any serious omissions in the thread. Remember, only directors whose surnames end in A to J.
Choose five from my suggestions and/or suggest your own titles in the thread. "Si Dios quiere" (as they say here on Devil's Island) I will later add films from British directors whose surnames begin with K to Z.
Who qualifies as "British"? There is an easy rule to decide. They are British if I say so. So no Charlie Chaplin (born and lived in England up to the age of 17) who made all his major films in the USA.
I could have claimed Stanley Kubrick, who moved to England to make Lolita in 1961, and rarely left his home, let alone the country, for the next forty years until his death. (I always thought it was ironic that he moved to England to film Nabokov's love letter to the USA, and stayed, whereas a comparable genius, Hitchcock, moved to the US to make that most English of stories, Rebecca, and stayed.) And Kubrick's films became more "European" from the time of the move. But Kubrick's films are well enough known not to need a plug in this thread.
With Hitchcock, I include only those films he made when he was a British citizen (up to 1955).
Please pick your five favorites from my list and mention any serious omissions in the thread. Remember, only directors whose surnames end in A to J.