Martin Scorsese's Favorite British Films

I only like TWO of them.

Can't bear Scorsese, personally. He's a bore.

I've seen about 45-50% of them. The big surprise is that Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM isn't on the list, since Scorsese was instrumental in getting it re-released in the early 80s. In fact, I didn't see any Powell/Pressburger at all.

Nice to see some appreciation for Jack Clayton's The Innocents, The Pumpkin Eater, and Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne. But there are a lot of B-movies that are just OK.

Plague Of The Zombies??? Please. I think he's trolling with some of the choices.

The Innocents and Dead of Night are two of my favorite horror films

Vampyres and Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde are just awful.

There are some good ones there -in particular The Nanny (Bette Davis) and Kind Hearts and Coronets. The Legend of Hell House is still the all-time scariest film I've ever seen.

Judith Hearne and Quartermass

[quote] The big surprise is that Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM isn't on the list, since Scorsese was instrumental in getting it re-released in the early 80s. In fact, I didn't see any Powell/Pressburger at all.

The article explains why:

"There are some giant titles missed off in the list, but that’s only because of the company at hand, meaning Scorsese is well aware that Edgar Wright needs no introduction to the Ealing Comedies, for example, and he “assumes” he has already seen most of the big hitters. "

[quote]The Damned — Joseph Losey (1963)

But not The Servant or Accident?

[quote]Plague of the Zombies — John Gilling (1966)

Excuse me?

The best British films came out of the 1960s - most aren't there.

R8 Absolutely agree with you on The Servant and what about Village of the Damned (1960), Whistle Down The Wind (1961) and The L-Shaped Room (1963)?

Pamela Franklin was in three of them: The Innocents, The Nanny, and The Legend of Hell House.

He should have included 'Our Mother's House', which she was also in.

This is fine. I mean it could have been all the obvious ones that bfi or any other establishment would choose. I like that there are many films on the list that I didn’t really know. Gives me something to try. I’m sick of these too 50 lists that are always the same films just in a different order.

What an exhausting, trolling list, IMHO.

Not a single Carry On ... film on the whole list!

Wow, I haven't seen any of those.

But THE INNOCENTS is on my bucket list.

[quote]"There are some giant titles missed off in the list, but that’s only because of the company at hand, meaning Scorsese is well aware that Edgar Wright needs no introduction to the Ealing Comedies, for example, and he “assumes” he has already seen most of the big hitters. "

Fucking confusing leaving the "heavy hitters" off his top 50 list. Seriously?