The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp / Midnight Express / Great Expectations / Passport to Pimlico / Secrets & Lies / The Duellists / Henry V / The Tales of Hoffmann / This Sporting Life / Black Narcissus / The Meaning of Life / Brief Encounter / The Grifters / A Passage to India / Dangerous Liaisons / Lawrence of Arabia / Saturday Night and Sunday Morning / The Queen / Bugsy Malone / A Matter of Life and Death / The Lady Vanishes / Oliver Twist / The Draughtsman's Contract / The Third Man / Kind Hearts and Coronets / Chariots of Fire / The Red Shoes / Dracula / The Mission / A Taste of Honey / /
MusicGroup
Remains of the Day / /
NaturalFeature
River Kwai / British Isles / /
Person
Richard Harris / Ridley Scott / Emeric Pressburger / Tony Richardson / Robert Morley / Duc de Berry / Michael Winterbottom (Jude) / John Boorman / Alan Bates / Mike Leigh / Alastair Sim / Alan Bridges / David Niven / Charles Dickens / Karel Reisz / Andrea Arnold / Gilles Jacob / Christopher Lee / Thomas Clay / Dirk Bogarde / Carol Reed / Michael Carreras / Vanessa Redgrave / Shane Meadows / Terence Stamp / Vienna Welles / Ken Loach / Hyde / James Ivory / Richard Burton / Alec Guinness / Terence Fisher / Trevor Howard / François Truffaut / Emily Young / Lindsay Anderson / Roland Joffé / Val Guest / Ernst Lubitsch / David Puttnam / Kenneth Branagh / Laurence Olivier / Margaret Rutherford / Monty Python / Robert Hamer / Jean Simmons / Hugh Hudson / Joan Greenwood / John Gielgud / Steve McQueen / John Mills / Rex Harrison / Peter Greenaway / Freddie Francis / Alan Parker / Peter Mullan / Orson Welles / James Mason / David Lean / Sarah Miles / Lynne Ramsay / Robert Newton / Michael Powell / Valerie Hobson / /
Position
Queen / Architect / Draughtsman / digital-multimedia artist / Colonel / director / ageing colonel / /
PublishedMedium
Saturday Night / /
Region
British Isles / /
TVShow
Hearts and Coronets / Passport to Pimlico / Whisky Galore / A Room with a View / /
“There is no such thing as British cinema,” François Truffaut once said, never at a loss for provocative exaggeration. Well, well! Who would have thought that our François suffered from historical amnesia? Let’s