Category Archives: British Filmmakers

My Favorite Nick Park Films

19 Tuesday Jun 2018

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

1.   Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
(Animated Short)

2.   Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
(Animated Short)

3.   Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989)
(Animated Short)

4.   Creature Comforts (1989)
(Animated Short)

5.   A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
(Animated Short)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Feature Films)

1.   Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
(co-directed with Steve Box)
(Animated Film)

2.   Chicken Run (2000)
(co-directed with Peter Lord)
(Animated Film)

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

1.   Early Man (2018)
(Animated Film)

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My Favorite Christopher Nolan Films

15 Friday Jun 2018

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1.   Memento (2000)

2.   Dunkirk (2017)

3.   The Dark Knight (2008)

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

1.   The Prestige (2006)

2.   Following (1998)

3.   Inception (2010)

4.   The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

My Favorite Martin McDonagh Films

06 Wednesday Jun 2018

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1.   Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

2.   Seven Psychopaths (2012)

3.   In Bruges (2008)

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

1.   Six Shooter (2004)

My Favorite Ken Loach Films

26 Saturday May 2018

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1.   I, Daniel Blake (2016)

2.   The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

3.   Land and Freedom (1995)

4.   Kes (1969)

5.   Raining Stones (1993)

6.   Riff-Raff (1991)

7.   Sweet Sixteen (2002)

8.   My Name Is Joe (1998)

9.   Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)

10. Hidden Agenda (1990)

11. Family Life (1971)

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

1.   Tickets (2005)
(His section of the film)
(co-directed with Abbas Kiarostami and Ermanno Olmi)

2.   11’09″01 September 11 (2002)
(Segment: “United Kingdom”)

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

1.   Looking for Eric (2009)

My Favorite Mike Leigh Films

21 Monday May 2018

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1.   Naked (1993)

2.   Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

3.   Vera Drake (2004)

4.   Another Year (2010)

5.   Secrets & Lies (1996)

6.   Mr. Turner (2014)

7.   Topsy-Turvy (1999)

8.   All or Nothing (2002)

9.   Career Girls (1997)

10. Life Is Sweet (1990)

11. High Hopes (1988)

12. Meantime (1983)
(TV Film)

13. Four Days in July (1985)
(TV Film)

14. Bleak Moments (1971)

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

1.   The Short and Curlies (1987)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Television)

1.   The Kiss of Death (1977)
(Episode of BBC Play for Today)
(No relation to the 1947 or 1995 films)

2.   Nuts in May (1976)
(Episode of BBC Play for Today)

3.   Grown-Ups (1980)
(Episode of BBC2 Playhouse)

4.   Home Sweet Home (1982)
(Episode of BBC Play for Today)

5.   Abigail’s Party (1977)
(Episode of BBC Play for Today)

6.   Who’s Who (1979)
(Episode of BBC Play for Today)

7.   Hard Labour (1973)
(Episode of BBC Play for Today)

My Favorite David Lean Films

21 Monday May 2018

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1.   Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

2.   Summertime (1955)

3.   The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

4.   Brief Encounter (1945)

5.   Great Expectations (1946)

6.   Oliver Twist (1948)

7.   Hobson’s Choice (1954)

8.   Blithe Spirit (1945)

9.   This Happy Breed (1944)

10. Madeleine (1950)

11. A Passage to India (1984)

12. The Passionate Friends (1949)

13. Ryan’s Daughter (1970)

14. Doctor Zhivago (1965)

15. The Sound Barrier (1952)

16. In Which We Serve (1942)
(co-directed with Noel Coward)

My Favorite Stanley Kubrick Films

13 Sunday May 2018

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1.   Barry Lyndon (1975)

2.   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

3.   The Shining (1980)

4.   The Killing (1956)

5.   Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

6.   Dr. Strangelove (1964)

7.   Paths of Glory (1957)

8.   A Clockwork Orange (1971)

9.   Full Metal Jacket (1987)

10. Lolita (1962)

11. Spartacus (1960)

12. Killer’s Kiss (1955)

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

1.   Fear and Desire (1953)

My Favorite Terry Jones Films

04 Friday May 2018

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1.   Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
(co-directed with Terry Gilliam)

2.   Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)

3.   Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)

My Favorite Derek Jarman Films

01 Tuesday May 2018

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1.   Blue (1993)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)
(no relation to Three Colours: Blue)

2.   War Requiem (1989)

3.   Jubilee (1977)

4.   Edward II (1991)

5.   The Garden (1990)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

6.   The Last of England (1987)

7.   Sebastiane (1976)

8.   Wittgenstein (1993)

9.   Caravaggio (1986)

10. The Tempest (1979)

My Favorite Seth Holt Films

28 Saturday Apr 2018

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1.   Station Six-Sahara (1962)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

2.   Taste of Fear (1961)
(a.k.a. Scream of Fear)

3.   The Nanny (1965)
(no relation to the American sitcom)

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

1.   Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)