While we can only imagine the pleasure of watching original choice Donald Pleasance as the sexually repressed misogynist Hopkins, Vincent Price makes a horribly effective substitute, lisping biblical lore to the screams of his victims on the rack and at the stake.
The pranks of monosyllabic scamp James William Eadie form the core of the film, and we eventually learn that James wants nothing more than to abandon the squalor of the city and move to a new housing project next to a cornfield in which he can frolic. If you didn't know Patrick Keiller's smartly rambling, tricksy walking tour of our city from , you might think that his title was pompous or presumptive. What if, right, the Hun were on the cusp of clinching victory in Europe, and all that stood between your average, flat-capped English patriot and the swift introduction of sauerkraut to the national menu was the collective muscle of a close-knit countryside community?
The plot — a Bethnal Green mother and housewife Googie Withers hides an on-the-run con and ex-lover John McCallum in her busy home — allows us intimate access to a working-class home. Two films by the American exile Joseph Losey have made our list, and few would argue that this chilling domestic two-hander from is his most enduring. The actors are tremendous.
It presents the wayward travails of Little Alex Malcolm McDowell a tearaway who likes nothing more than a bit of the old ultra-violence. The style of filmmaking is at once clinically precise and imaginatively loose. This is down to the multitude of tricks that Kubrick hoists in slo-mo, fast-forward, cartoon inserts, back projection to encapsulate the total autonomy these characters have and why they see their behaviour as thrilling.
Does it stand up psychologically? Probably not. The story of an adopted, professional black British woman Marianne Jean-Baptiste who tracks down her white, working-class birth mother Brenda Blethyn came with its own themes and ideas. But it also allowed Leigh to refine interests he had been exploring for years, such as the relationships between parents and kids, the love and antagonism of siblings and our awkward relationships to material wealth. Some argue that Hitchcock made his greatest works in the US, but the presence of four of his British movies on our list suggests that not everybody holds that view — or at least that his earlier work is still held in very high regard.
Small wonder this classic Ealing crime caper remains a mainstay of so many film polls. The casting and performances, for a start, are brilliantly sharp. It alienated much of his fanbase and put a full stop on his career in British movies. But nudge the lurid Technicolor brutality aside and what you have is a film which depicts the act of consuming the moving image as a way of psychologically participating in the acts of those on screen. In film, it was a different matter: what sane production company was likely to shell out thousands for tales of earth-worship and mystic rites, especially when the target audience was a notoriously cash-strapped and b largely confined to rambling country cottages miles from the nearest picture palace?
That its rediscovery continues to gather pace almost four decades later is a testament to his skill as a filmmaker. These films capture a rare poetry in their depiction of wayward youth, the death of industry and the small, diligent ways in which the downtrodden are able to retain hope and ward off constant darkness.
I want you to kiss me! Thank God for Universal Studios. Alas… DJ. What a pity Gary Oldman has never been able to fulfil his dream of following up this, his directorial debut! However fine many of his performances had been, both the writing and the direction of this deservedly acclaimed British movie displayed considerably more than great promise.
One of the strangest but most welcome side effects of great comedy is the way it crystallises ideas, bringing concepts previously vague and inexpressible into the public consciousness. When talking about the impossibility of a successful military occupation, how long before someone mentions what the Romans did for us?
I think Thackeray trades off the advantage of surprise to gain a greater sense of inevitability and a better integration of what might otherwise seem melodramatic or contrived. The story sees Miss Giddens Deborah Kerr become governess to two children who live in a sprawling country pile and are the wards of an absent uncle Michael Redgrave who lives in London.
Is Miss Giddens mad? Are there ghosts? Are both things true, even? Their hokey investigation to locate the scoundrel acts as the narrative through-line with which Powell and Pressburger hang a gorgeous, panoramic vision of an England steeped in history, tradition and eccentric, downhome custom. It also takes a comic look at the cultural divisions between America and Britain and the need to bridge that divide for the common good. A heady, almost surreal climax in Canterbury, where the three pals part ways and find comfort in friends, music and memory, is tremendously moving, not least because we also discover the reason why they were all there in the first place.
Period drama? Social satire? In , Total Film readers voted it the third-best comedy of all time. At the time of its release at the height of war, it was also very bold in trying to counter some myths about history and give colour to black-and-white prejudices not least about Germany and Germans.
Many view the film as cold, heartless, too stiff-lipped to be truly moving check the current Time Out review by Dave Calhoun for evidence.
And yet, of all the films in the higher echelons of this list, it might be the most flawed and difficult. Certainly, at the time it marked a departure for Leigh into more mythical, less domestic territory, and in retrospect marked a new maturity in his filmmaking. The film — which now bizarrely makes the mids Britpop fad appear to have been the cultural highlight of modern times — told of happy-go-lucky junkie Mark Renton McGregor and the band of mischievous associates he would occasionally call friends, including Spud Ewen Bremner , Sick Boy Jonny Lee Miller , Tommy Kevin McKidd and Begbie Robert Carlyle.
Plus, is this the greatest opening five minutes ever? Many scenes stick in the mind, most of them tinged with a strange comedy. The Ealing comedies undoubtedly remain a bastion of British whimsicality, but the results of this poll suggest they have fallen out of favour.
Dennis Price is Louis Mazzini D'Ascoyne, bon mot-dropping avenging angel and class warrior by default, out to take down the remaining D'Ascoyne clan all played by Alec Guinness as punishment for excommunicating his dear, dead mother.
The beauty of this film is how easy it is to divorce yourself from its horrors and side with this gentleman psychopath on his quest. Expecting a jolly, Beatles-esque musical romp starring those loveable rogues The Rolling Stones, they were subjected to minutes of graphic gangland violence, explicit three-way sex, celebratory drug-taking and Mick Jagger in a dress.
So why is a film which should, by rights, be too dated to watch still gaining traction well into its fourth decade? It may not be accidental that our quotidian earthly existence is shown in colour while the fanciful realm of the hereafter is consigned to the monochrome favoured by Grierson et al.
Quite dazzling. Considering that their votes were split seven ways, The Archers have received far more votes than any other director on the list.
The increased availability of their work on DVD will have played a major role here, particularly in the rediscovery of the two new titles. Its songs lift us, while its sadnesses bring us down. Our hero, Holly Martins Joseph Cotten , is a writer of dimestore westerns. His pal is Harry Lime Orson Welles , a bootlegger whose latest grift has landed him in an early grave, or so it seems. Support Time Out directly today and help us champion the people and places which make the city tick. About us.
Contact us. Time Out magazine. The best British movies We spoke to over movie experts and writers to put together this definitive list of British films. Discover the best of the city, first. Here in the States, we tend to see the presence of the split as the unusual feature, rather than the other way around. Alan Moore, the famous graphic novels writer, born and bred in Northampton East Midlands Kieron Gillen, games journalist, now also a comics writer, brought up in Stafford West Midlands Rob Halford, the frontmen of the heavy metal band Judas Priest, brought up in Walsall also West Midlands.
Saving them to my personal collection! Ozzy Osbourne has a Brummie accent. You can hear it if you watch early interviews. This is just in case you wanted more examples. I will definitely check out Johnson, though. Yes, I think they might be drug related. But if you check out earlier interviews with him, like this one and this one , you can hear the accent better I think. I definitely hear a Brummie intonation in those videos.
Yeah, he has a really cool voice and a really cool Geordie accent. Here he is on the car show Top Gear. In fact this is what you find with most languages for exactly the same reasons. Most languages have dialect forms and a standard form e. Germans, Austrians and Swiss learn Hochdeutsch at school but the majority speak dialect at home and in their locality.
In fact English is unusual in that it neither has an official standard nor do native speakers have to make any effort to understand somebody from another place.
I have never met an English speaker with whom I could not speak normally without either of us having to change our speech. I speak Dutch every day but I do not understand many dialects and people from those places have to speak standard Dutch or I cannot converse with them. People from Belgium and many parts of Holland are sub-titled on Dutch television. I have never seen an English speaker sub-titled on a regular English language channel.
Of the languages I know well Dutch, German, French, Irish and Spanish all have more variations in dialect and accent than English does. The exception is Polish which is the most uniform language I have ever come across. A Polish person cannot tell where somebody is from based on their accent; in fact they can derive nothing of class or background either without account for other factors.
The reason normally given for this is the population movements after World War 2 combined with a centralizing Polish state with limited media channels. Although it might sometime seem that English is a language of infinite variety it is actually quite homogeneous compared to many other languages which just goes to show what a fascinating source of study and inspiration human expression speech is. Thanks for pointing that out … I meant English-speaking countries, but omitted that point from some reason.
Having said all that, your point is a good one. A question though: is the difference you are highlighting one of vocabulary or accent? Generally in the UK people are using the same words but pronouncing them differently. Is that what is happening in your examples, or are these people actually using words that would be spelled differently even if they share the same linguistic roots?
I love your blog! And I am admire your attention to detail. Thank you for supplying me with an interesting read every other day. You are a great source for procrastination! I am currently working on my MA on Older Scots, focusing on dialectal variation, and I just have add a small remark on your comment on Scottish English.
You say Scots derive from Middle English, which is not quite true. The Anglian variety was introduced to Scotland in the 7th century and developed more or less independently from then on. So, by the Middle English period, which is said to start in the 11th century, Older Scots had already had already developed independently from Northern Middle English for a few centuries.
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The release was sourced from eight shows during the first two weeks of November at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Australia during the last month of the Glass Spider Tour. Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture is a live album by English musician David Bowie , released in October in correspondence with the film of the same name. It was recorded on the second half of the Diamond Dogs Tour in , which is known as "the Soul Tour" due to the influence of the then-unreleased material Bowie had begun recording for Young Americans I'm Only Dancing marks the first time performances from this portion of the tour have been First UK pressings were on translucent yellow vinyl and some European pressings were also available on blue vinyl.
Since its original release, Stage has been reissued numerous times, each with expanded track listings. The second show in Sydney from the Australian leg of the Reality tour, ultimately the final tour of Bowie 's career. The setlist does a good job of intermixing his later material with the older classics that Bowie jokes the whole audience has come to hear, he sounds excellent and there's high spirits all throughout.
The audience recording sounds amazing, but the recorder died towards the end of the set - fortunately, some TV appearances from around the time have been tacked on to complete the Ed R for Mrs. The final show. Topics: nirvana, punk rock, bootleg, flac. Serious Moonlight is the title of a David Bowie concert video.
The concert includes most of the songs from the concert although "Star", "Stay", "The Jean Genie", "Red Sails" and "Modern Love" were left off the release due to time constraints; the songs were not reinstated for David Bowie 's performance at the Brit Awards. Topics: david bowie, pet shop boys, bootleg. From rocking wild to ambient intonations to Frippertronics and field recordings with world beats, Eno has quietly and progressively transformed the world of music.
Bless him. Set list: All tracks by Brian Eno unless otherwise noted. The concert, part of Bowie 's short Hours Tour, was recorded and filmed on the 19th November in front of an invite-only audience of fans and contest winners.
An edited audio recording was I Want to Break Free 6. Innuendo 7. It's a Hard Life 8. Breakthru 9. Who Wants to Live Forever Headlong The Miracle I'm Going Slightly Mad The Invisible Man Hammer to Fall Friends Will Be Friends The Show Must Go On One Vision favorite favorite favorite 1 reviews Source: CD.
Incomplete set from the Outside tour, included on another bootleg to pad out the running time. Outside ; 6 from Scary Monsters and Super Creeps.
Topics: david bowie, industrial rock, bootleg. Topics: nine inch nails, how to destroy angels, mike garson, industrial rock, bootleg, flac. Wishing to capitalize on Bowie 's and the new album's popularity, RCA issued Golden Years, a compilation of previously released Bowie tracks.
The cover art featured a recent photo of Bowie , giving a false first impression the album was an all-new release.
All the tracks on this A long set from Nirvana's last American tour, featuring ten In Utero tracks - including 'Serve the Servants', the performance from this show of which was planned to put in the unreleased live album Verse Chorus Verse. That would've been SBD an MP3 is circulating, but this is a very good audience recording and the complete show. From late on the Cold and Black and Infinite tour, this bootleg very clear vocals, but somewhat distant instruments features a good mix of deep cuts, including plenty of tour rarities - 'Dear World,', 'Subterraneans', 'The Background World', 'Home', 'Dead Souls' Track listing: Mr.
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