In February 2011 Time Out surveyed 150 film industry experts to produce its list of "The 100 best British films." Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now topped the list. An updated list was published in May 2021, retaining the same rankings but adding four films (The Souvenir, Scum, God's Own Country, and Dunkirk) in place of Listen to Britain, Penda's Fen, I'm All Right Jack, and School for Scoundrels.
List breakdown The 1960s came out as the most popular decade, with 19 films (the 1940s and 1970s each had 17 films), and the most popular years were 1968, 1970, 1980, and 1999, with four films each. The earliest films chosen were from 1929 (Blackmail, Piccadilly, and A Cottage on Dartmoor). The most recent film was from 2009 (Fish Tank). The most popular director was Michael Powell, with seven films, six of which were directed with Emeric Pressburger as the team of Powell and Pressburger ("The Archers"). Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Mike Leigh, and Nicolas Roeg had four films each. Seven of the films were produced by Ealing Studios.
Top 10 Rank Title Year Director 1 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 2 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 3 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies 4 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 5 The Red Shoes 1948 Powell and Pressburger 6 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 7 Performance 1970 Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell 8 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 9 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson10 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle
See also BFI Top 100 British films Abraccine Top 100 Brazilian films 100 Italian films to be saved
External links Time Out list
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