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Movie London
LondonNet's Top 10 London Films
1 Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan, 1986,
GB)- successfully combines the Little Londoner (in this case
Bob Hoskins) with the Dark London themes to create one of the
most powerful evocations of love found and lost in the modern
cinema.
2 One Hundred
and One Dalmatians (Wolfgang Reitherman/Hamilton Luske/Clyde Geronimi,
1960, US) - puppies-a-plenty as Disney mixes upper crust London
cliché with superbly comic animation, a combo returned
to with similar success for Mary Poppins.
3 Performance (Nicholas Roeg, Donald
Cammell, 1970, GB) - Mick Jagger, James Fox, Anita Pallenberg
combine to chillingly erotic effect in the best of the Swinging
London films.
4 Passport
to Pimlico
(Henry Cornelius, 1948, GB)- Definitive Ealing comedy in which
Pimlico declares independence from Britain. Perhaps the best
example of the Little Londoner on film.
5 Babylon (Franco Rosso, 1980,
GB) - Reggae provides top musical atmosphere in this rare Black
London film as DJ Brinsley Ford battles the police.
6 Four Weddings
and a Funeral
(Mike Newell, 1994, GB) - Posh, poncey pals escape downmarket
London through marriage and death in one of the most annoying,
if successful, British movies of all time.
7 The Threepenny
Opera
(GW Pabst, 1931, Ger) - Screen legend Lotte Lenya puts down a
startling performance as a London whore in this luminescent reworking
of Bertolt Brecht's radical play.
8 Night
and the City
(Jules Dassin, 1950, GB) London goes Noir with minor villain
Richard Widmark on the run through the city's dark and dingy
streets. Director Dassin was himself on the run, from McCarthy's
witch hunt, when he made the film.
9 Riff-Raff (Ken Loach, 1990,
GB) - London as a cold city of transient workers scratching a
living and searching for friendship. Stars Robert Carlyle of
Full Monty fame.
10 The Great
Rock'n'Roll Swindle (Julian Temple, 1979, GB) ­ Sex Pistols
celluloid epitaph pricks balloon of punk pomposity with unabashed
glee.
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