Country with best cinematography?

[MikeH]

There are literally hundreds of British movies.

These are a top 100 I just lifted from a site http://www.britmovie.co.uk/

1 Trainspotting
2 The Third Man
3 Lawrence of Arabia
4 The Ladykillers
5 A Matter of Life and Death
6 Get Carter
7 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
8 Kind Hearts and Coronets
9 The Full Monty
10 The Italian Job
11 The 39 Steps
12 Brief Encounter
13 Withnail and I
14 Four Weddings and a Funeral
15 A Clockwork Orange
16 Snatch
17 Zulu
18 Billy Elliot
19 Notting Hill
20 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
21 Kes
22 If...
23 A Canterbury Tale
24 The Red Shoes
25 The Lavender Hill Mob
26 I Know Where I'm Going
27 Billy Liar
28 The Bridge on the River Kwai
29 The Lady Vanishes
30 Great Expectations
31 Monty Python's Life of Brian
32 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
33 The Long Good Friday
34 Shallow Grave
35 Oh, Mr Porter!
36 Dr. Strangelove
37 Quadrophenia
38 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
39 Brassed Off
40 Bridget Jones's Diary
41 Secrets and Lies
42 The Cruel Sea
43 The Wicker Man
44 Naked
45 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
46 A Hard Day's Night
47 Alfie
48 Genevieve
49 Dead of Night
50 Passport to Pimlico
51 Scrooge
52 Performance
53 The Remains of the Day
54 The Man In The White Suit
55 Gregory's Girl
56 I'm All Right Jack
57 Ice Cold in Alex
58 Whisky Galore
59 Brazil
60 Hobson's Choice
61 Odd Man Out
62 A Room with a View
63 Doctor Zhivago
64 Don't Look Now
65 A Taste of Honey
66 Green for Danger
67 Chariots of Fire
68 Educating Rita
69 Sliding Doors
70 The Man Who Would Be King
71 In Which We Serve
72 Goldfinger
73 Human Traffic
74 Shakespeare in Love
75 Oliver Twist
76 Local Hero
77 Black Narcissus
78 Ask a Policeman
79 Tom Jones
80 Shooting Fish
81 Brighton Rock
82 Night of the Demon
83 The Devil Rides Out
84 School For Scoundrels
85 The Dam Busters
86 This Happy Breed
87 The Crying Game
88 Whistle Down the Wind
89 Sense and Sensibility
90 Jude
91 Beautiful Thing
92 2001: A Space Odyssey
93 Hell Drivers
94 O' Lucky Man!
95 The Titfield Thunderbolt
96 Oliver!
97 Get Real
98 Hope and Glory
99 My Name is Joe
100 Peeping Tom

[aaglo]

I mentioned UK...

BTW, aren't the James Bond-movies made in uk?

AND don't forget the Monty Python stuff... funniest movies ever. National Lampoons come far behind (except the fabulous Animal House).

[Ecthy]

true

[Q Classic]

dr zhivago was a british film? didn't know that.

[SlowwHand]

"Christmas Vacation" and the other Chevy Chase Vacation movies were National Lampoon.
They were good.

[Q Classic]

and there are some spectacularly well-filmed korean movies.

chingu (friend) is one of them.
as is joint security area.
or the way home.

and animation:
my beautiful girl mari.

[aaglo]

I completely forgot chinese films... there are some very beautiful stuff there too.

[Q Classic]

yiyi, for instance.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Dry

So, better say:
Hollywood is probably one of the suckiest place when it comes to movies...
Don't mix up Hollywood and USA.

Sure. Maybe it was not clear enough, but I started by mentioning Kubrick, Lynch, van Sant, Welles (I could have added Scorcese) just to make sure I was not criticising America as a whole, but Hollywood.

As for the guy who told me Mexico is not in South America. Yeah, thanks for the insight (as if I didn't know my geography). Petty cosmetics such as these won't detract from my main point: Mexico definitely belongs to the "south American" cultural ring, both by language and tradition.

As for the UK debate: yeah, many great movies came from the UK. But surprisingly, and as far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong) there is no major artistic current that originated from there. Anyway, not as much as we can associate Germany with expressionism, France with Nouvelle Vague, Italy with neo-realism, Russia with formalism, etc. Being on the winning side of history is not good for the artistic inspiration!

Still, I like to think that Peter Greenaway has been an excellent defender of UK colours in the past 20 years.

[Q Classic]

actually, mentioning david lynch... he shouldn't be in that list of good directors. dune is reason enough.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
actually, mentioning david lynch... he shouldn't be in that list of good directors. dune is reason enough.

Dune is a special case. I suspect it might have been done on purpose. Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet are way sufficient to forgive him. Won't you agree?

[MrBaggins]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
[SNIP]I don't wound to sound anti-American here...[SNIP]

Sure, there was Welles, Kubrick[SNIP]

Well... Kubrick actually moved to the UK when he started doing his most edgy stuff like Lolita, and liked it so much, he stayed... so he's technically a Brit now, in terms of this discussion.

[RGBVideo]

Petty cosmetics such as these won't detract from my main point: Mexico definitely belongs to the "south American" cultural ring, both by language and tradition.

There's a whole concept created for the unified "cultural ring" you mentioned; "Latin America", that's why the term "South America" shouldn't usually be used unless talking about purely geographical issues.

[Q Classic]

actually, no, because i didn't like mulholland drive, either. or the elephant man. or twin peaks.

[Az]

USA.