Earlier this year Time Out London produced a list of the 100 Greatest British Movies. I've decided that I should try and watch as many as possible. This is the story so far. Unfortunately, the list is in reverse order so it's a bit confusing.
100: In This World (2002)
Dir Michael Winterbottom (Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah)
99: The Railway Children (1970)
Dir Lionel Jeffries (Dinah Sheridan, William Mervyn, Jenny Agutter)
Seen several times mostly when I was a child
98: School for Scoundrels (1960)
Dir Robert Hamer (Ian Carmichael, Alastair Sim, Terry-Thomas)
97: 28 Days Later… (2002)
Dir Danny Boyle (Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson)
Have seen a bit of this one. Not very good with scary stuff.
96: Theatre of Blood (1973)
Dir Douglas Hickox (Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry)
95: London to Brighton (2006)
Dir Paul Andrew Williams (Lorraine Stanley, Johnny Harris, Georgia Groome)
94: 24 Hour Party People (2002)
Dir Michael Winterbottom (Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Ron Cook)
Seen several times. Have it on DVD. One of my favourite movies.
93: Zulu (1964)
Dir Cy Endfield (Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Michael Caine)
92: Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Dir Shane Meadows (Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell)
91: Land and Freedom (1995)
Dir Ken Loach (Ian Hart, Icíar Bollaín, Tom Gilroy)
90: Blue (1993)
Dir Derek Jarman (voices of Tilda Swinton, John Quentin, Nigel Terry)
89: The Go Between (1970)
Dir Joseph Losey (Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard)
Seen this. Read the book at school and was made to watch the movie too.
88: This Is England (2006)
Dir Shane Meadows (Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley)
Watched 15 October 2011.
87: Night and the City (1950)
Dir Jules Dassin (Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers)
86: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Dir David Lean (Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins)
85: I'm Alright Jack (1959)
Dir John Boulting (Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas)
84: Fish Tank (2009)
Dir Andrea Arnold (Katie Jarvis, Kierston Wareing, Michael Fassbender)
83: A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
Dir Anthony Asquith (Hans Adalbert von Schlettow, Uno Henning, Norah Baring)
82: Orlando (1993)
Dir Sally Potter (Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, John Wood)
81: Dr No (1962)
Dir Terence Young (Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman)
80: Under the Skin (1997)
Dir Carine Adler (Samantha Morton, Claire Rushbrook, Rita Tushingham)
79: The Offence (1972)
Dir Sidney Lumet (Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant)
78: Billy Liar (1963)
Dir John Schlesinger (Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles)
Haven't seen it but I've read the book.
77: Piccadilly (1929)
Dir EA Dupont (Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray, Jameson Thomas)
76: Penda's Fen (1974)
Dir Alan Clarke (Spencer Banks, John Atkinson, Ian Hogg)
75: A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
Dir Shane Meadows (Paddy Considine, Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall)
74: Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Dir Mike Newell (Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas)
Seen this one several times too. Have it on DVD.
73: The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Dir Alexander Mackendrick (Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker)
72: The Long Day Closes (1992)
Dir Terence Davies (Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson)
71: Edvard Munch (1974)
Dir Peter Watkins (Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Iselin von Hanno Bart)
70: Bad Timing (1980)
Dir Nicolas Roeg (Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel)
69: Oliver! (1968)
Dir Carol Reed (Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed)
I'm sure I've seen some of this. I not sure I really approve of such a serious story being made into a musical.
68: Dead of Night (1945)
Dirs Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer (Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver)
67: Whisky Galore! (1949)
Dir Alexander Mackendrick (Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Jean Cadell)
66: Wonderland (1999)
Dir Michael Winterbottom (Gina McKee, Shirley Henderson, Molly Parker, John Simm)
65: Dracula (1958)
Dir Terence Fisher (Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough)
64: Topsy-Turvy (1999)
Dir Mike Leigh (Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall)
Seen most of this movie several times. For some reason I always miss the first 10 minutes and as a result miss the only bit that Dexter Fletcher is in!
63: Nuts In May (1976)
Dir Mike Leigh (Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman)
62: Deep End (1970)
Dir Jerzy Skolimowski (Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Diana Dors)
61: Walkabout (1971)
Dir Nicolas Roeg (Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Lucien John)
60: The Long Good Friday (1980)
Dir John Mackenzie (Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Derek Thompson)
59: Blackmail (1929)
Dir Alfred Hitchcock (Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, John Longden)
58: Gregory's Girl (1981)
Dir Bill Forsyth (John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Claire Grogan)
57: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Dir Stanley Kubrick (Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester)
56: Caravaggio (1986)
Dir Derek Jarman (Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton)
55: Radio-On (1980)
Dir Chris Petit (David Beames, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff)
54: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
Dirs Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle et al)
53: This Sporting Life (1963)
Dir Lindsay Anderson (Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts)
52: Robinson in Space (1997)
Dir Patrick Keiller (Paul Scofield (voice))
51: Local Hero (1983)
Dir Bill Forsyth (Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson)
50: Culloden (1964)
Dir Peter Watkins (George McBean, Alan Pope, the people of Inverness)
49: Gallivant (1996)
Dir Andrew Kötting (Andrew Kötting, Eden Kötting, Gladys Morris)
48: Hunger (2008)
Dir Steve McQueen (Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham)
47: Blow-Up (1966)
Dir Michelangelo Antonioni (David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Bowles)
46: The Fallen Idol (1948)
Dir Carol Reed (Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Bobby Henrey)
45: Repulsion (1965)
Dir Roman Polanski (Catherine Deneuve, Yvonne Furneaux)
44: Sabotage (1936)
Dir Alfred Hitchcock (Oscar Homolka, Sylvia Sidney, John Loder)
43: Fires Were Started (1941)
Dir Humphrey Jennings
42: Listen to Britain (1942)
Dir Humphrey Jennings
41: Witchfinder General (1968)
Dir Michael Reeves (Vincent Price, Patrick Wymark, Ian Ogilvy)
40: Ratcatcher (1999)
Dir Lynne Ramsay (William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews)
39: London (1994)
Dir Patrick Keiller (voice of Paul Scofield)
38: Went the Day Well? (1942)
Dir Alberto Cavalcanti (Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton)
37: It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
Dir Robert Hamer (Googie Withers, Edward Chapman, John McCallum)
36: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Dir Tony Richardson (Tom Courtenay, James Bolam, Julia Foster)
35: The Servant (1963)
Dir Joseph Losey (James Fox, Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig)
34: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Dir Stanley Kubrick (Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates)
33: Secrets and Lies (1996)
Dir Mike Leigh (Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Marianne Jean-Baptiste)
32: Get Carter (1971)
Dir Mike Hodges (Michael Caine, Britt Ekland, John Osborne)
31: The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Dir Alfred Hitchcock (Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave)
30: The Ladykillers (1955)
Dir Alexander Mackendrick (Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Katie Johnson)
29: Peeping Tom (1960)
Dir Michael Powell (Karl Böhm, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley)
28: The Wicker Man (1973)
Dir Robin Hardy (Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland)
27: The Bill Douglas Trilogy (1972, 1973, 1978)
Dir Bill Douglas (Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor-Smith)
26: I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Dirs Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey)
25: Great Expectations (1946)
Dir David Lean (John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt)
24: Brazil (1985)
Dir Terry Gilliam (Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond)
23: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Dir David Lean (Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness)
22: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Dir Karel Reisz (Albert Finney, Rachel Roberts, Shirley Anne Field)
21: Nil by Mouth (1997)
Dir Gary Oldman (Kathy Burke, Ray Winstone)
20: Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Dir Terry Jones (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle et al)
19: Barry Lyndon (1975)
Dir Stanley Kubrick (Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee)
18: The Innocents (1961)
Dir Jack Clayton (Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave)
17: A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Dirs Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, John Sweet, Dennis Price)
16: Black Narcissus (1947)
Dirs Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar)
15: Withnail and I (1987)
Dir Bruce Robinson (Richard E Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths)
14: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Dirs Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr)
13: The 39 Steps (1935)
Dir Alfred Hitchcock (Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Godfrey Tearle)
12: Brief Encounter (1945)
Dir David Lean (Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson)
11: Naked (1993)
Dir Mike Leigh (David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Karin Cartlidge)
10: Trainspotting (1996)
Dir Danny Boyle (Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller)
9: If... (1968)
Dir Lindsay Anderson (Malcom McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick)
8: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Dir Robert Hamer (Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood)
7: Performance (1970)
Dirs Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell (James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg)
6: A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Dirs Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey)
5: The Red Shoes (1948)
Dirs Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring)
4: Kes (1969)
Dir Ken Loach (David Bradley, Lynne Perrie, Freddie Fletcher)
3: Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Dir Terence Davies (Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie)
2: The Third Man (1949)
Dir Carol Reed (Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alide Valli)
1: Don't Look Now (1973)
Dir Nicolas Roeg (Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland)
