Sentences with phrase «british films»

The series was handed the honour at the annual prizegiving, which recognises the best of British films, TV, music, literature and dance, while funnymen Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon won the TV Comedy prize for their series The Trip to Italy.

A Royal Night Out is the latest film from Julian Jarrold, and continues his tradition of making some of the most quintessentially British films to hit a cinema.

One of the finest British films ever made, this benchmark of «kitchen - sink realism» follows the self - defeating professional and romantic pursuits of a miner turned rugby player eking out an existence in drab Yorkshire.

Lee follows in the path of British films like Duane Hopkins's Better Things and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, or even Peter Hall's 70s classic Akenfield: films which show that the countryside is not a bland picturesque place, gentle and calming.

Away feels like it wants to be an American indie film, the sort that people theorize about for years, but instead it is sadly one of those British films that will disappear very quickly.

Arguably the best of Hitchcock's early British films — he was only 35 when he directed it — this is the movie in which we first spot a slew of Hitchisms.

While the odds of seeing two truly extraordinary, brutal but brilliant British films in as many weeks are fairly long, the chances of both films starring the same relative unknown, in two similarly impressive yet fundamentally different performances, must be exponentially smaller.

With Joanna Hogg's third film, Exhibition, confirming her as among our best new filmmakers, we look back at some of the greatest British films by female directors.

With that in mind, and more importantly because any time is a good time to acknowledge it, I thought I would list my essential British films.

The Polish - born Pawlikowski was behind two of the best British films of the» 00s with «Last Resort» and «My Summer Of Love,» but has had a tough decade: he'd shot more than half of an adaptation of Magnus Mills ««The Restraint Of Beasts,» in the mid» 00s, before having to pull out when his wife became ill (the film was never completed, and she died not long after).

Tom Jolliffe on the essential British films... Article 50 is due to drop soon.

John Hurt died in January of this year and was remembered by some as the presence behind so many classic British films and by others as Mr. Ollivander in the «Harry Potter» films.

(No Fab Four here though; British films don't have that big a budget.)

Josh can currently be seen as the lead in God's Own Country, one of the most successful British films of 2017, and soon to be released on DVD and VOD.

Directed by Stephen Cookson (My Angel, Steven Berkoff's Tell Tale Heart) who co-wrote the film with Timothy Spall, Stanley, A Man of Variety won an impressive 16 awards at film festivals worldwide and stands as one of the most original, unmissable British films of the year.

A depiction of sexual discovery and inner pain that was as rugged as the windswept Yorkshire landscape it's set against, Francis Lee's drama was one of the best British films of recent years.

But in the early 1960s, British films surged with working - class talent, making gritty, funny kitchen sink dramas

It holds an unparalleled collection of cinema equipment and memorabilia as well as the last surviving copies of early British films.

Every year, American and British films dominate the Oscars, claiming nearly every nomination in every category.

The movie is well cast from top to bottom; like many British films, it benefits from the genius of its supporting players.

Thanks to Judi Dench, Victoria now reigns supreme as the most popular character ever in British films.

Other British films screening at the festival include Nicholas Hytner's adaptation of Alan Bennett's hit play The Lady in the Van, with Maggie Smith reprising her much - lauded performance as eccentric homeless woman who lived in Bennett's drive for 15 years.

One of the most successful British films in the United States, the film focused on an impoverished young ballerina (Moira Shearer) who becomes an understudy with a famed dance troupe, only to reach new heights when she dons a pair of magical red shoes.

Today was a day for films about people stirring things up in their families and communities, and about British films stirring things up here at the festival.

# 1 [by popular demand] at the 6 - city British Film Festival in Australia out of 20 new British films - per our distributor Transmission

Last but not least, British films, and two of my all - time favourite British directors didn't let me down.

Fresh from triumph on the festival circuit, a host of exciting British films is set for release.

Other British films made a splash.

I've never been a huge fan of David Lean's epics and think the modest British films he did in the 1940s are superior.

Three Oscar - nominated British films, «Victoria & Abdul», «Darkest Hour» and «Dunkirk» were postcards from a mythologised Great Britain

Edgar mentions how hard it is to make a movie numerous times in this interview, and that's true («especially when they're British films and they're ambitious»).

It's not hard to divine the thought processes that go into determining which British films end up being exported to our shores.

Finding Your Feet is another of those modestly budgeted British films aimed at an older audience and, again, it is very much a mixed bag.

Except for the international category, the award is given to independently funded British films.

Jawbone review: Johnny Harris leads the cast and scripts this ultra-gritty British drama which truly is one of the stand - out British films of the...

High Fidelity, Chicken Run, dirty pretty things, children of men (again 1 of my favorites), united 93 might also be called British films and some might claim a place on that list.

The Observer has just assembled one of the more interesting lists I've seen in some time — a collective of the 25 best British films of the last quarter - century, compiled from the votes of over 60 critics, film professionals and assorted outside voices, ranging from Ben Kingsley to Peter Morgan to our friend Anne Thompson.

A stark, brutal, yet tender prison drama starring Jack O'Connell as a violent inmate sent to the same lock - up as his jailbird father (Ben Mendelsohn), the film's shot through with a raw energy and authenticity that's closer to «A Prophet» than to most other British films in the genre, with Mackenzie making the movie feel like he's bottled up a hurricane of tension, which at any second could kick through the screen at you and hit you with a sock full of snooker balls.

In 1985, British films with South Asian protagonists were rare.

Despite having made (many with Emeric Pressburger) some of the greatest — and best - loved - British films of the 1940s (The...

It is as good as a sequel to one of the most iconic British films of all time ever could be.

I can't get enough of these upbeat British films.

«We thought the best way to save Europe was to make extravagant, romantic British films.»

In the summertime, the only films you could see in approximately 99 % of British cinemas were Moonraker, The Champ, Battlestar Galactica and Pete's Dragon; as the autumn set in, you could see only Alienand The Bitch (which movie symbolises with truly hideous perfection just how seedy and sleazy a pass British films have come to); currently, Star Trek and Meteor crowd»em in.

While British films can sometimes be regarded with great affection at home, they rarely do well abroad — unless they happen to be the sort of strait - laced Bonham Carter historical dramas or soppy Hugh Grant contemporary rom - coms that pander to comfortable stereotypes for a foreign market.

In any case, as I state above, it's not their affinity for British films that bothers me — it's the fact that they don't tend to celebrate the best British films.

Mr. O'Connell, who made such strong impressions this year in the tough British films Starred Up and» 71, is certainly a fine subject for Roger Deakins's lovely camera work, but that's about all he's allowed to be.

The BAFTA nominations have been released and it's slim pickings for British films out in the coming month.

With the exception of break - out stars like Danny Boyle and Guy Ritchie, British films are fairly predictable.

There weren't too many British films about at that time, and there were people like Daniel Day Lewis and Tim Roth competing for the few decent parts going.