Edgar Wright's reponse to "No good British films...since 1950"

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Edgar Wright used his MySpace blog to respond to a claim by Ricky Gervais in GQ that there have been no good British films made since 1950. The result is an interesting and eclectic list of 101 "conventional classics" and "personal favorites" from six decades of British cinema.

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  1. 1.
    The Lavender Hill Mob
    by Charles Crichton
  2. 2.
    The Dam Busters
    by Michael Anderson
  3. 3.
    The Ladykillers
    by Alexander Mackendrick
  4. 4.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean
  5. 5.
    Horror of Dracula
    by Terence Fisher
  6. 6.
    Curse of the Demon / Night of the Demon
    by Jacques Tourneur
  7. 7.
    I'm All Right Jack

  8. 8.
    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

  9. 9.
    Peeping Tom (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michael Powell
  10. 10.
    Village Of The Damned (1960)
    by Wolf Rilla
  11. 11.
    The Innocents
    by Jack Clayton
  12. 12.
    The Rebel
    by Tony Hancock 1961
  13. 13.
    Lawrence of Arabia (Collector's Edition)
    by David Lean
  14. 14.
    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
    by Tony Richardson
  15. 15.
  16. 16.
    Tom Jones
    by Tony Richardson
  17. 17.
    A Hard Day's Night
    by Richard Lester
  18. 18.
    The Masque of the Red Death [VHS]

  19. 19.
    Zulu

  20. 20.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by David Lean
  21. 21.
    The Ipcress File
    by Sidney J. Furie
  22. 22.
    Bunny Lake is Missing
    by Otto Preminger
  23. 23.
    Blow Up

  24. 24.
    Alfie
    by Lewis Gilbert
  25. 25.
    Privilege
    by Peter Watkins
  26. 26.
    If... (The Criterion Collection)
    by Lindsay Anderson
  27. 27.
    The Devil Rides Out

  28. 28.
    Twisted Nerve
    by Roy Boulting
  29. 29.
    The Italian Job

  30. 30.
    Kes (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ken Loach
  31. 31.
    Blood on Satan's Claw [VHS]
    by Piers Haggard
  32. 32.
    Performance
    by Nicolas Roeg
  33. 33.
    Get Carter
    by Mike Hodges
  34. 34.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick
  35. 35.
    DEVILS (1971)
    by Ken Russell
  36. 36.
    The Abominable Dr. Phibes
    by Robert Fuest
  37. 37.
    10 Rillington Place
    by Richard Fleischer
  38. 38.
    Villain [VHS]
    by Michael Tuchner
  39. 39.
    Straw Dogs (Unrated Version)
    by Sam Peckinpah
  40. 40.
    Frenzy

  41. 41.
    ?
    Death Line

  42. 42.
    Sleuth
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  43. 43.
    Gumshoe
    by Stephen Frears
  44. 44.
    Don't Look Now
    by Nicolas Roeg
  45. 45.
    The Legend of Hell House
    by John Hough
  46. 46.
    O Lucky Man
    by Lindsay Anderson
  47. 47.
    The Wicker Man
    by Robin Hardy
  48. 48.
    The Offence
    by Sidney Lumet
  49. 49.
    Theater of Blood
    by Douglas Hickox
  50. 50.
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    by sphe

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