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19th Jul 2007, 12:41 AM #1
The Summer of British Film (BBC Two Season)
Trailer has been running all week and the season appears to start at the end of the month:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pre.../10/film.shtml
Originally Posted by BBC Press Release
Week 31 (28 July-3 August 2007) Programme Info:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pro...ed_britishfilm
THE SUMMER OF BRITISH FILM
British Film Forever – Guns, Gangsters And Getaways:
The Story Of The British Thriller Ep 1/7
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Day and time to be confirmed BBC TWO
www.bbc.co.uk/britishfilm
British Film Forever is the flagship series of BBC Two's Summer Of British Film season. This new, seven-part primetime series examines British film by genre: Thriller, Romance, Social Realism, Costume Drama, Horror/Fantasy, War and Comedy. Narrated by Jessica Hynes (ne Stevenson, Shaun Of The Dead), this is the biggest series on British film ever made, with over 200 exclusive interviews from the giants of the big screen.
As well as being an entertaining journey through the greatest films and stars, the series reveals untold stories from behind the scenes and examines what makes British film unique and what it reveals about British culture.
This first programme launches the series with a 100-minute opener. The British Thriller has produced some of the world's best talent: the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock; the king of cool, Michael Caine; and the world's most successful thriller franchise – James Bond.
There are exclusive interviews with Sir Michael Caine, Lord Attenborough, Bob Hoskins, Ewan McGregor, Guy Ritchie and Daniel Craig. Some of the major films featured are The Third Man, The Long Good Friday, Get Carter and Shallow Grave. Contributions also come from Mischa Barton, Kate Winslet, Richard E Grant, Danny Boyle, Charlie Higson and Simon Callow.
Starts Saturday 28th July @ 9:05pm, according to Radio Times website.Last edited by Milky Tears; 19th Jul 2007 at 12:49 AM. Reason: update
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19th Jul 2007, 12:46 AM #2Pip Madeley Guest
Are they showing Holiday On The Buses?
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19th Jul 2007, 12:50 AM #3
Mutiny pisses all over it.
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19th Jul 2007, 1:08 AM #4Pip Madeley Guest
Don't be daft, barely two minutes into "Holiday" you get a slapstick car crash, some baps and Michael Sheard.
It's British.
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19th Jul 2007, 9:09 AM #5
Surely a good reason to show a load of Hammer films
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19th Jul 2007, 11:59 AM #6
A good excuse to show the Confessions Films.
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19th Jul 2007, 2:08 PM #7Pip Madeley Guest
Let's hope they don't show Carry On Columbus.
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19th Jul 2007, 4:37 PM #8
That was on about a month ago, on Channel 5 I think.
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19th Jul 2007, 5:43 PM #9
Films on BBC Two during Week 31 (28 July-3 August 2007):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pro...ms/index.shtml
BBC Two
Saturday
1315 The Thirty Nine Steps (Hitchcock)
1440 The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock)
2245 Dirty Pretty Things (Frears)
2415 Gumshoe (Frears)
Sunday
1030 Young and Innocent (Hitchcock)
1150 Obsession (Dmytryk)
2100 From Russia With Love (Young)
2415 Noose (Greville)
Monday
2530 A Cottage on Dartmoor (Asquith)
Tuesday
2320 The Ipcress File (Furie)
2505 Pulp (Hodges)
Wednesday
1135 Odd Man Out (Reed)
2350 Helldrivers (Enfield)
2535 Clash By Night (Tully)
Thursday
2405 Following (Nolan)
2515 Scarlet Thread (Gilbert)
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21st Jul 2007, 3:15 AM #10
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21st Jul 2007, 1:53 PM #11Pip Madeley Guest
No "Holiday" then.
Least we get "Carry On Camping".
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21st Jul 2007, 2:14 PM #12Wayne GuestTuesday, August 28 - The Gorgon
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28th Jul 2007, 7:43 PM #13
Shamelessly bumping this thread less than 90 minutes before tonight's opening episode
A couple of Best Of British film lists from this week's Radio Times (I got the Caine cover):
Originally Posted by Radio Times
Originally Posted by Radio Times
The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes were both on BBC Two this afternoon.
Barry Norman wasn't impressed with the results!
I'll post the Romance list before next week's episode.
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29th Jul 2007, 10:54 AM #14
Pity - I thought the docu last night was fairly dull - mostly the usual suspects with nothing particularly new to say. Seems to have a fairly wide definition of 'British film' to include anything starring a British actor or was filmed in Britain - I expect Star Wars will manage to be included somehow in the future .
for all the old films though - even though Robert Powell's 39 steps is much betterBazinga !
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29th Jul 2007, 2:17 PM #15
Jessica Baked Beans raped my decent voice-over lovin' childhood! Sounds as if she had a spweech impwediment during some of it.
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29th Jul 2007, 8:09 PM #16
Originally Posted by Radio Times
YOUR GREATEST BRITISH FILMS
1. Monty Python's Life Of Brian
2. The Full Monty
3. Four Weddings and a Funeral
4. Trainspotting
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. Shaun of the Dead
7. Withnail & I
8. Brief Encounter
9. Zulu
10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
looking at these films i'm supprised Bridge Over The River Kwai, has not made it into the top 10.
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5th Aug 2007, 3:53 PM #17
Kwai only appears in their War Top Ten.
Originally Posted by Radio Times
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5th Aug 2007, 4:23 PM #18
I watched the first documentary the other night, and thought it was pretty good, although it would have been nice to see a few more obscure films featured - mind you, you can't get much more obscure than 1907's 'Rescued By Rover'!
As much as I like Jessica Stevenhynes (or whatever she's called these days) I'm not really sure she was the right person to narrate the programme. I know it's just a matter of personal preference, but I'm not keen on the more irreverent approach to these sorts of documentary which seems to be fashionable these days.
I must admit that I haven't watched any of the featured films on television, but it is a great season, and I have to take my hat off to BBC Two for celebrating British film in this way. I will, though, try to see as many of the seven films which are showing at the cinemas as possible. I only learned of these releases when a friend asked if I wanted to go and see 'Goldfinger' last Tuesday. I've not seen a classic Bond film in a long while, and it's certainly the first time I've seen one at the pictures - I was very impressed, not just at how good the film itself is, or the sheer thrill of seeing sixties Bond on the big screen, but also the stunning quality of the new print which was used. It looked like it was made yesterday!
Since no fewer than four of my favourite films of all-time are being re-released in theatres - 'Billy Liar', 'The Dam Busters', 'The Wicker Man' and 'Withnail & I' - I'm going to make every effort to get myself along to the cinema each week.
Just a pity, really, that they're not doing a sci-fi category, as it would have been a perfect opportunity to re-release '2001' - now that would be worth seeing on the big screen!
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6th Aug 2007, 10:53 AM #19
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6th Aug 2007, 7:46 PM #20Captain Tancredi Guest
I saw 'Goldfinger' on the big screen at the Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds a few years ago- they went through these phases of showing a feature film with a Looney Tunes-type cartoon and a Pathe newsreel from the same year every now and then- and the rather fun thing was that it was around the university summer ball season, so a lot of guys turned out in their dinner suits with water pistols, which added to the occasion.
Haven't watched one of the Saturday night programmes all the way through yet, but then again they've started with sex and violence and I don't particularly enjoy watching either. I don't think it's asking quite enough questions, though, and particularly not why?- why we're good at making small, intimate, emotionally intense films about people in everyday situations, why we had the Hammer and Carry On-led boom of the 1960s and so on. It's not sufficient to say "these are a lot of British films and they're good"- in this day and age when it's important not only to recognise our own national identity but also to be able to see beyond it, I'd like to see something which said "these films- which incidentally happen to be very good- could only have been made in Britain". And I'm not sure that they're not- like the BBC itself- at some level based on a puffed-up sense of cultural superiority which says that we [I]have[I] to have a national broadcaster and a national film industry.
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27th Aug 2007, 12:15 PM #21
Did anyone see the horror documentary on Saturday night? There was a short clip near the beginning where a van crashed into a car and something flew through the windscreen of the van and through the car driver (or summat like that!) - does anyone know what film its from? They didn't feature it afterwards.
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27th Aug 2007, 6:42 PM #22
It didn't look familiar at the time and I haven't checked my recording yet.
It's catch-up time:
Originally Posted by Radio Times
A very British cop-out
I thought Saturday's Horror & Fantasy effort was the best episode yet. Always good to see Pete Walker, Barbara Shelley, Jimmy Sangster and John Hurt, but what's happened to Ingrid Pitt? I know she was ill a couple of years ago. Has she had a stroke?
There's been some rarely seen gems shown on BBC Two during the past month - films like Gumshoe, Pulp, Sky West and Crooked, Hungry Hill, The Pumpkin Eater, The Whisperers, Flame In The Streets, The Boys, Hindle Wakes and The Leather Boys. The Quatermass Xperiment is another one that hadn't been on for a while.
The Damned is on tonight at 11:30pm, The Gorgon tomorrow and The Sorcerers on Thursday night.Last edited by Milky Tears; 27th Aug 2007 at 6:50 PM.
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1st Sep 2007, 11:59 PM #23
With some great clips and an impressive array of interviewees, tonight's war movies documentary was a particularly good episode in what has been an excellent series (even though I've still got about three editions to catch up on!). However, the narration still continues to spoil things: the script is awful, and I'm afraid Jessica Stevenson is just not the right voice for this.
'The Dam Busters' is out in cinemas this week, and I'd love to go and see it. Unfortunately, my local Cineworld seems to have started showing the films at around six o'clock, so unless I go straight from work, there's little chance of me getting to see it.
A friend and I went to see 'The Wicker Man' last Tuesday, but, not realising that it was on at such a ludicrously-early time, we missed it, and so went to see 'Transformers' instead - very enjoyable, although it featured neither Edward Woodward, innuendo-laden folk songs, nor Britt Ekland's tits.
It didn't even feature Christopher Lee dressed as a woman. How disappointing.
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2nd Sep 2007, 12:06 AM #24Wayne Guest
Dang it, I keep missing these documentaries!
(By the time this post loads, i'll probably've missed another one)
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8th Sep 2007, 11:13 PM #25Pip Madeley Guest
Watched tonight's comedy-themed documentary... interesting selection, some films I've seen many times (Withnail & I, Life Of Brian), some I really don't want to bother with (The Full Monty, Bend It Like Beckham)... and hurrah for 'Holiday On The Buses' being mentioned - highest grossing film in 1973 Britain says it all.
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