But there’s a humanistic quality in Boyle’s direction unique to the dark, dour canon of post-apocalyptic horror. That’s not to say it skimps on scares to the contrary, it includes some of the most horrifying set pieces of the last two decades. And yet, it feels quite unlike any zombie movie before or since, to the degree that it nearly exists outside the genre. Nothing about 28 Days Later, frankly, is especially novel. Oh no, not fast zombies! Those are the worst kind! Danny Boyle didn’t invent the concept of speedy flesheaters, nor the idea of setting a zombie outbreak in the UK. DAīuy, rent or watch ‘The Railway Children’Ĭast Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson Nice to see it make the list of best British movies, albeit in the penultimate spot. Naturally, the film won’t play well with today’s digital generation – it’s far too fusty and polite in both tone and colour – but it still has the capacity to generate fond childhood memories. Jenny Agutter and little Sally Thomsett are the film’s cornerstones, but a special mention to Bernard Cribbins’s archetypal British stationmaster. With a sudden urge to start life over in the country, the remaining family members – mother Dinah Sheridan and her three children – up sticks and settle alongside a quaint Yorkshire railway line where the film slowly begins to work its very English charm. 🎥 The 100 best movies of the 20th century so farĬast Dinah Sheridan, William Mervyn, Jenny AgutterĪs warm and cosy as a cup of Horlicks, Lionel Jeffries’s 1970 adaptation of E Nesbit’s Edwardian children’s novel centres on a well-to-do London family torn apart when its patriarch is arrested on suspicion of treason. Written by Dave Calhoun, Tom Huddleston, David Jenkins, Derek Adams, Geoff Andrew, Adam Lee Davies, Paul Fairclough, Wally Hammond, Alim Kheraj, Matthew Singer & Phil de Semlyen Here are the 100 greatest British films ever made. The results are as diverse as the country itself. To put together this list of the best British movies of all-time, we polled over 150 actors, directors, writers, producers, critics and industry heavyweights, from the likes of Wes Anderson, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes and Terence Davies, David Morrissey, Sally Hawkins and Thandie Newton. Thrillers? Romantic period pieces? Sci-fi? Drug movies? You can find them, all with a specific, if sometimes intangible, English slant. Prefer a smaller scale, more intimate drama? Try Joanna Hogg or Shane Meadows. Want a sweeping, heart-swelling epic? Explore the films of David Lean or Powell and Pressburger.
Other than location and accent, what signatures mark British cinema? Honestly, it’s hard to peg, if only because the UK movies industry hardly seems limited in the stories it tells and the cinematic experiences it puts onscreen.
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