Category Archives: British Filmmakers

My Favorite Terry Gilliam Films

19 Thursday Apr 2018

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1.   Brazil (1985) 

2.   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

3.   Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
(co-directed with Terry Jones)

4.   12 Monkeys (1995)

5.   Time Bandits (1981)

6.   The Fisher King (1991)

7.   The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Miracle of Flight (1974)
(Animation)
(I watched it on youtube)

2.   The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)
(Played before Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life)

3.   Story Time (1979)
(Animation)

4.   The Wholly Family (2011)
(I watched it on youtube)

5.   The Legend of Hallowdega (2010)
(I watched it on youtube)  

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1.   Tideland (2005)

2.   Jabberwocky (1977)

3.   The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

4.   The Zero Theorem (2013)

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My Favorite Stephen Frears Films

15 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by in 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Biography, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, Greatest, Italian Cinema, Lists, Music, Romance, Stephen Frears, Thriller, Top 313

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1.   My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

2.   Dirty Pretty Things (2003)

3.   The Hit (1984)

4.   High Fidelity (2000)

5.   The Grifters (1990)

6.   Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

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1.   Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

2.   Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

3.   The Queen (2006)

My Favorite Terence Fisher Films

13 Friday Apr 2018

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1.   Dracula (1958)
(a.k.a. Horror of Dracula)

2.   The Devil Rides Out (1968)

3.   The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

4.   The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

5.   The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)

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1.   Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)

2.   The Gorgon (1964)

3.   The Brides of Dracula (1960)

4.   The Mummy (1959)

5.   Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

6.   Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)

My Favorite Terence Davies Films

04 Wednesday Apr 2018

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1.   Of Time and the City (2008)
(Documentary)

2.   The Long Day Closes (1992)

3.   Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

4.   The Terence Davies Trilogy (1984)

5.   A Quiet Passion (2016)

6.   Sunset Song (2015)

7.   The Deep Blue Sea (2011)

8.   The House of Mirth (2000)

9.   The Neon Bible (1995)

My Favorite Alex Cox Films

26 Monday Mar 2018

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1.   Walker (1987)

2.   Highway Patrolman (1991)

3.   Repo Man (1984)

4.   Straight to Hell (1987)

5.   Sid & Nancy (1986)

6.   Searchers 2.0 (2007)

7.   Revengers Tragedy (2002)

8.   Three Businessmen (1998)

9.   Death and the Compass (1992)

10. Repo Chick (2009)

My Favorite Jack Clayton Films

22 Thursday Mar 2018

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1.   The Innocents (1961)

2.   The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

3.   Room At The Top (1959)

4.   Our Mother’s House (1967)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)

2.   Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

My Favorite Charlie Chaplin Films

17 Saturday Mar 2018

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1.   City Lights (1931)

2.   Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

3.   The Gold Rush (1925)

4.   Limelight (1952)

5.   Modern Times (1936)

6.   The Great Dictator (1940)

7.   A Woman of Paris (1923)

8.   The Kid (1921)

9.   The Circus (1928)

10. A King in New York (1957)

11. A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Keystone Shorts)

1.   His Prehistoric Past (1914)

2.   The New Janitor (1914)

3.   Dough and Dynamite (1914)

4.   His Trysting Place (1914)

5.   Gentlemen of Nerve (1914)

6.   His Musical Career (1914)

7.   Getting Acquainted (1914)

8.   The Property Man (1914)

9.   Laughing Gas (1914)

10. Mabel’s Married Life (1914)

11. A Busy Day (1914)

12. The Rounders (1914)

13. Those Love Pangs (1914)

14. Caught in the Rain (1914)

15. Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)

16. His New Profession (1914)

17. The Masquerader (1914)

18. Recreation (1914) 

19. The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Essanay Shorts)

1.   The Bank (1915)

2.   Work (1915)

3.   The Tramp (1915)

4.   In the Park (1915)

5.   His New Job (1915)

6.   A Jitney Elopement (1915)

7.   Shanghaied (1915)

8.   Burlesque on ‘Carmen’ (1915)

9.   Police (1916)

10. A Night in the Show (1915)

11. A Woman (1915)

12. By the Sea (1915)

13. The Champion (1915)

14. A Night Out (1915)

15. Triple Trouble (1918)
(co-directed with Leo White)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Mutual Shorts)

1.   The Immigrant (1917)

2.   Behind the Screen (1916)

3.   The Pawnshop (1916)

4.   The Floorwalker (1916)

5.   The Fireman (1916)

6.   One A.M. (1916)

7.   The Rink (1916)

8.   The Count (1916)

9.   The Vagabond (1916)

10. The Adventurer (1917)

11. The Cure (1917)

12. Easy Street (1917) 

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (First National Shorts)

1.   The Pilgrim (1923)

2.   Shoulder Arms (1918)

3.   A Dog’s Life (1918)

4.   The Bond (1918)

5.   Payday (1922)

6.   The Idle Class (1921)

7.   Sunnyside (1919)

8.   A Day’s Pleasure (1919)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Compilation Films)

1.   The Chaplin Revue (1959)

My Favorite John Boorman Films

07 Wednesday Mar 2018

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1.   Point Blank (1967) 

2.   Deliverance (1972)

3.   Hope and Glory (1987)

4.   The General (1998)
(No relation to the Buster Keaton film)

5.   Excalibur (1981)

6.   The Emerald Forest (1985)

7.   Zardoz (1974)

8.   Queen & Country (2014)

9.   Leo the Last (1970)

10. The Tailor of Panama (2001)

11. The Tiger’s Tail (2006)

12. Hell in the Pacific (1968)

13. Having a Wild Weekend (1965)
(aka Catch Us If You Can)

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1.   Where the Heart Is (1990)
(No relation to the 2000 film)

2.   In My Country (2004)

3.   Beyond Rangoon (1995)

My Favorite Lindsay Anderson Films

18 Sunday Feb 2018

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1.   O Lucky Man! (1973)

2.   if…. (1968)

3.   This Sporting Life (1963)

4.   In Celebration (1975)

5.   Britannia Hospital (1982)

6.   Is That All There Is? (1992)
(Available as an extra on the Criterion DVD of “This Sporting Life”)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   O Dreamland (1953)
(Documentary Short)
(I watched it online)

2.   Thursday’s Children (1953)
(Documentary Short)
(Available as an extra on the Criterion Collection DVD of “if….”)

3.   Wakefield Express (1952)
(Documentary Short)
(Available as an extra on the Criterion Collection DVD of “This Sporting Life”)

4.   Meet the Pioneers (1948)
(Documentary Short)
(Available as an extra on the Criterion Collection DVD of “This Sporting Life”)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   A Look Back in Anger (1980)
(TV Film)
(I watched it on an old VHS Tape)