"Trainspotting" is up there, probably my number one in fact. "Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" is excellent too. Hmm, what else..."Withnail & I", "A Clockwork Orange" of course! And "Local Hero" has always been a favourite of mine.
Trainspotting Snatch Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrells recently saw Layer Cake too and that was quite good.
then why'd you list it as one of your fav British films? :H I was going to say Clockwork Orange but I'm pretty sure that one is American but I always think of it as a British film.
Well, it's still British in some kind of sense, but the majority of the funding is from American productions (Columbia), so it makes it a American film.
Seems we need some definitions I'd say a film was British if it was filmed in Britain with British actors, like "A Clockwork Orange". But I'd also say a film was British if it had British writers and directors, like "A Life Less Ordinary". Even though that had American actors and locations. That's how I look at it anyway. Funding doesn't really come in to it for me.
"If...." is one of my favourite films ever So many iconic scenes. A very hard film to search for on DVD or for download, I've just tried, and every film with the word "if" in the title comes up
Apparently never even been released on DVD?! Shocking! This is a classic of British cinema. So I'm stuck with a crappy VHS copy
Mike Leigh's Naked is a bit of a classic, another one you don't necessarily want to have to search for download
