Monday, July 28, 2014

The Best of British (Films)...

... as far as movies are concerned, anyway.  There have been several polls to decide the best British-made films of all time.  Here are the Top Ten from two such polls; a poll conducted in 1999 by the British Film Institute, and then the results from a 2011 poll by the magazine Time Out.


British Film Institute 1999

1 - The Third Man (1949)
2 - Brief Encounter (1945)
3 - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
4 - The 39 Steps (1935)
5 - Great Expectations (1946)
6 - Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
7 - Kes (1969)
8 - Don't Look Now (1973)
9 - The Red Shoes (1948)
10 - Trainspotting (1996)

Time Out 2011

1 - Don't Look Now (1973)
2 - The Third Man (1949)
3 - Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
4 - Kes (1969)
5 - The Red Shoes (1948)
6 - A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
7 - Performance (1970)
8 - Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
9 - If... (1968)
10 - Trainspotting (1996)

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