{"id":10783,"date":"2011-02-08T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10783"},"modified":"2011-02-08T12:00:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T12:00:28","slug":"time-outs-list-of-the-100-best-british-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/02\/08\/time-outs-list-of-the-100-best-british-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Out’s List of The 100 Best British Films"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK listings magazine Time Out<\/a><\/strong> have selected a list of The 100 Best British Films<\/a><\/strong>, topped by Don’t Look Now<\/a><\/strong> (1973).<\/p>\n Voted for by 150 film experts including critics<\/a>, filmmakers<\/a>, actors and ‘industry players<\/a>‘, it\u00a0is a very solid selection overall, with the top ten featuring a healthy mix of established greats alongside some interesting choices.<\/p>\n However, if we are talking about British films (that is films produced by British companies) the team that put this together have made a major blunder by including Stanley Kubrick<\/a> films which were American films that just happened to be shot in the UK.<\/p>\n 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/a> (1968) was produced by MGM, whilst A Clockwork Orange<\/a> (1971) and Barry Lyndon<\/a> (1975) were funded by Warner Bros – both large US studios.<\/p>\n Brazil<\/a> (1985) was also US financed (by Embassy International Pictures<\/a>, whilst Universal released it) and Nil By Mouth<\/a> (1997) – whilst seemingly very British – was actually co-financed with French money.<\/p>\n This might seem like nitpicking but it is worth highlighting where the money comes from, especially in the current era where it prospects look fairly bleak for homegrown UK production.<\/p>\n However, there are plenty of films here to feast on and a few personal favourites I’d highly recommend are:\u00a0If…<\/a><\/strong> (1968), Performance<\/a><\/strong> (1970), The Offence<\/a><\/strong> (1971), Witchfinder General<\/a><\/strong> (1968), Local Hero<\/a><\/strong> (1983) and Hunger<\/a><\/strong> (2008).<\/p>\n You can also check out the individual lists of each Time Out contributor here<\/a>.<\/p>\n THE TIME OUT LIST OF THE 100 BEST BRITISH FILMS<\/strong><\/p>\n > Time Out Film Section<\/a> UK listings magazine Time Out have selected a list of the 100 Best British Films, topped by Don’t Look Now (1973).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[1838,1837],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n> Wikipedia lists of great films<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"