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Posted by Mark Todd (Member # 96) on March 02, 2009, 08:26 PM:

Hi I was after a few suggestions for films to hunt out to see from this marvellous era of UK film making.

A couple I must get to see are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
Also Spring and Port wine

Seen The Family Way with John and Hayley mills, wonderful and anyone seen Sky West and Crooked ??

Many Thanks Mark.

Posted by Graham Sinden (Member # 431) on March 03, 2009, 07:10 AM:

Mark, Try watching "The Leather Boys". Fantastic 60's feel particularly the holiday camp and the wedding. I could watch this again and again, its a shame when it comes to the end.

However I copied mine off the telly as the DVD has been given bad reviews and printed at the incorrect ratio.

Graham S [Smile]

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on March 03, 2009, 09:50 AM:

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Look Back in Anger, This Sporting Life, Darling. All great films that capture that gritty feeling of Britain in the early 1960's.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on March 03, 2009, 10:06 AM:

Though made at about the turn of the century to 2000, there's an awesome 60's themed film that takes place in LA, but it's a british film (so to speak) ...

THE LIMEY

It stars Terrence Stamp as a British "guest of the state" who gets out and his first mission is to head to LA, because he has heard that his only daughter has been killed. Her lover is played by Peter Fonda, (another 60's stalwart) and only, in the end, he finds out that he is as responsible for her death as Peter Fonda's character.

It is an amazing film!

The editing and the style of story telling is great, not seen all that often. The director took footage of Terrence Stamp from one of his films of the sixties to show him as a young man, and it was done seamlessly.

Peter Fondas character, (who has become a music executive by buying a large catalog of sixties pop music and making a load of money off of it) is asked what the sixties was like and he gives a great short synopsis of what the sixties were really like.

By the way, along with the directors commentary, there is a "documentary in a documentary" commentary, where all the actors who were around in the sixties, (Fonda, Terrence and the woman, ( can't remember her name), talk about what it was like back then.

If you haven't seen this film, you'll be really happily surprised. It has a really out of nowhere ending that, for an action film, really catches you off guard emotionally.

It is also an incredibly short film, for a film these days, merely 80 or so minutes.

THE LIMEY

See it. (yes, it's out on DVD)

Posted by Stewart McSporran (Member # 128) on March 07, 2009, 04:45 PM:

"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" stands out head and shoulders above most, except, of course, the wonderful "If..."

Posted by Lars Pettersson (Member # 762) on March 08, 2009, 01:34 AM:

And the whacky ones; "morgan -a suitable case for treatment" and "The knack and how to get it" -Great fun. [Smile]

Cheers
Lars

Posted by Robert Lewis (Member # 1458) on March 13, 2009, 05:41 AM:

Fantastic being reminded of these films.

The mention of them reminded me of days gone by.

In the 70s and 80s, the place at which I worked had a staff social club, and that included a film group. We had access to a couple of B & H 16mm projectors, for which we bought anamorphic lenses, and members built a projection booth and a masked wide screen.

Each month we would hire in a film from the "Rank Film Library" and films I particularly remember were "Spring and Port Wine" and "The Family Way". Of course we had to have a balanced programme and so other films we showed included "Camelot" as well as some of the classics such as "Witness for the Prosecution".

Like all good things, eventually our social lives changed and eventually the film group ceased. Things like video, more television channels, and a general decline in group social life brought about the end of the group.

Are times really so good today?

I do wonder.

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