Robin Hood (2010)

Production year: 2010
Countries: Rest of the world, UK, USA
Cert (UK): 12A
Runtime: 140 mins
Directors: Ridley Scott
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Danny Huston, Kevin Durand, Mark Strong, Matthew MacFadyen, Max von Sydow, Russell Crowe, Scott Grimes, William Hurt


REVIEWS:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/may/13/robin-hood-review-russell-crowe
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/may/11/robin-hood-cannes-film-review

Lassie (2005)

Production year: 2005 
Countries: UK, USA 
Cert (UK): PG 
Runtime: 99 mins 
Directors: Charles Sturridge 
Cast: Edward Fox, Jemma Redgrave, John Lynch, Jonathan Mason, Peter Dinklage, Peter O'Toole, Robert Hardy, Samantha Morton











TRAILER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgyGAxJhECU

REVIEWS

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2005/dec/16/2

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2005/dec/18/features.review1

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/dec/13/1


RANDOM THOUGHTS

Had I been a good chess player, I would have been capable of the creation of such happy ending. I see that you have to got a good sense for what you want and then using your mind to plan and proceed in the best way one can. Additionally, I have noticed that this kind of films are always playing in that kind of scale to create certain kind of balance between evil and good events (or characters) to which always the good is the winner.

Ratcatcher (1999)

Details: 1999, UK, Cert 15, 97 mins
Direction: Lynne Ramsay
Genre: Drama
Summary: Ratcatcher is set in Glasgow, 1973. The city, despite its Victorian grandeur, has some schemes with the poorest housing conditions in western Europe, such as no running hot water, no bathing facilities and no indoor toilet. The city is mid-way through a major re-development program, demolishing these schemes and re-housing the tenants in new modern estates. The problems in these schemes are somewhat compounded by the binmen going on strike, creating an additional health hazard and a breeding ground for rats. The main character, James, is a 12-year old boy, growing up in one of these schemes, which is gradually emptying, as the re-housed tenants move out. James, with the rest of his family, two sisters, one older, one younger,his mum and heavy-drinking father, patiently waits to be re-housed.
With: Mandy Matthews, Tommy Flanagan and William Eadie

GUARDIAN's  REVIEW 

TRAILER

morvern callar (2002)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8IyZMJKlvI

Very quiet atmosphere!, such was the first thought that pops in my mind while watching the film in the first 30 minutes. Then, as the story line was being developed I see how risqué the characters were. I do not know whether it was a panned nor lauded film, but to my taste is something that I am glad to see since there is always something of madness in Morvern. I could highlight that it is a bit shocking to see her in those petrified scenes and mainly to see that she has not got any immediate feeling for the  circumstances. All in all, I like the interpretation, I like very much the idea that the things that we cannot describe by scientific facts one start to associate that with luck, then by saying that, she is indeed a lucky girl.


TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gmbLGmjbpg
REVIEWS:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/nov/03/philipfrench
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/nov/01/artsfeatures3



Morvern Callar 
Production year: 2002 
Countries: Rest of the world, UK 
Runtime: 97 mins 
Directors: Lynne Ramsay 
Cast: Kathleen McDermott, Raife Patrick Burchell, Samantha Morton

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Willy Wonka's Tevelision Chocolate, or better say Teletransporter!

"As a child, Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's author, was the novelist who I connected to the most. He got the idea of writing a mixture of light and darkness, and not speaking down to kids, and the kind of politically incorrect humor that kids get. I've always liked that, and it's shaped everything I've felt that I've done."
~Tim Burton

Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings and his children's books for their unsentimental, often very dark humour.

Love it!

p.s. To the best of my knowledge and belief, it is not a complete Britisth production, however, many of the events are ocurring, I would conjecture, somewhere in the United Kingdom.

The Chronicles of Narnia (2005 2008 and 2010)

One of the scenes that I could claim that is very powerful
both in graphical and literary content.

The Chronicles of Narnia (film series), has given me the impression that I am being connected to my very childhood where I used to believe almost everything, and where I was a very sensitive guy.


TRAILERS
The Chronicles of Narnia:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Enjoy some Bloopers

Age of Heroes (2011)

Age of Heroes is a war film directed by Adrian Vitoria. The film is based on the real-life events of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit during World War II. The film was released in the United Kingdom in 2011.

AGE OF HEROES follows the unique circumstances behind 30 Commando's inception and the unit's first highly classified smash-and-grab mission into occupied Norway, to capture vital radar technology that will change the course of the war. But when their escape route is uncovered, the commandos find themselves in a pitched battle to reach the border against vicious Nazi General Dietl (Christian Rubeck) and his deadly 5th Alpine Division.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Heroes_%28film%29

Why do I create another label for Films and British Films?

    This obsession of mine for registering almost every useful information about my life is coming to be more than serious, well, probably not a lot. Anyway, this time, I am just creating another label for British Cinematography in which I will post what I have seen or I saw on that respect.

You might wonder why I do create such label which is purely for British Cinematography, well, you are a good guesser, I am in love with some traits of British Culture (I am currently thinking on creating another label for that topic, nonetheless the previous-mentioned label will wait to the next post!).

Yours,

M. A.