Paid Members DEF Posted March 1, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 1, 2021 (edited) I'm sure some of you have heard the background of this but I thought it was pretty cool and worth a thread. Over lockdown Edgar Wright wrote to Martin Scorsese and asked him if he had any recommendations for favourites of lesser seen British Cinema. Scorsese sent him a healthy list and asked for some recommendations from Wright in return. This led Wright to sharing both lists with Tarantino and they all seem to have had a blast going down the rabbit hole. Yesterday I listened to an ace 3hr Empire podcast with Wright and Tarantino discussing some films and Tarantino recommended some more films. Myself I've only seen 9 of these films so I'm going to do my best to give as many of them a shot as I can. Here's Scorsese's list Here's Wright's reply And finally Tarantino's podcast picks I've spent the night cross referencing the various available sources for the films and thought some of you might like a guide of where to look. If it says BD next to it assume there is also a DVD available. The ones in green are the films I've seen. If any of you stumble on any sources not mentioned let me know. A couple of the Blurays and DVDs might be out of print and I can't find Johnny Nobody anywhere. SCORSESE Kind Hearts and Coronets – BD/ Amazon Instant Station Six Sahara – BD/Amazon Instant Brief Ecstasy – DVD/Amazon Instant The Halfway House – BD/Amazon Instant Went The Day Well – BD/Amazon Instant Nowhere To Go – DVD The Nanny – BD/DVD Madonna Of The Seven Moons – DVD/YouTube The Man in Grey – BD/Amazon Instant So Long At The Fair – DVD/YouTube A Stolen Face – DVD/YouTube Spaceways – YouTube Four Sided Triangle – DVD/YouTube The Sound Barrier – BD/Amazon Instant This Happy Breed – BD Guns at Batasi – BD Green For Danger – BD The Mind Benders – BD To The Public Danger – YouTube It Always Rains on Sundays – BD/Amazon Instant The Long Good Friday – BD/Amazon Instant A High Wind in Jamaica – BD The Queen of Spades – BD Hue and Cry – BD/Amazon Instant Pink String & Sealing Wax – BD/Amazon Instant The Blue Lamp – BD/Amazon Instant The Good Die Young – BD/Amazon Instant Mandy – BD/Amazon Instant Vampyres – BD/Amazon Instant Uncle Silas – YouTube The Legend of Hell House – BD/Amazon Instant Night of the Eagle aka Burn Witch Burn - BD The Flesh and the Fiends – BD/YouTube The Snorkel – BD Taste of Fear – BD The Damned – BD The Plague of the Zombies – BD The Quatermass Experiment – BD/Amazon Prime Quatermass and the Pit – BD Doctor Jeykl & Sister Hyde – BD The Devil Rides Out - BD The Asphyx – BD/Amazon Prime The Underground - BD Shooting Stars – BD Sapphire – DVD/YouTube Whistle and I'll Come to You – Youtube/DVD Dead of Night – BD/Amazon Instant Enfield Haunting – DVD/Amazon Instant The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne – BD The Pumpkin Eater – BD The Innocents – BD The Seventh Veil – Amazon Prime Yield To The Night – BD/Amazon Instant Edgar Wright Tales From The Crypt – BD Asylum - BD From Beyond the Grave – BD/Amazon Instant The League of Gentlemen – BD Frieda – DVD/Amazon Instant Pool of London – BD/Amazon Instant Victim – BD No Trees In The Street – DVD/Amazon Instant Seance on a Wet Afternoon - BD Hell Drivers - BD The World Ten Times Over – OOP DVD? The Small World of Sammy Lee – BD/Amazon Instant Ice Cold In Alex – BD/Amazon Instant Waterloo Road - DVD Whistle Down The Wind - DVD Passport to Shame – BD/Amazon Instant The Flesh is Weak - DVD Bitter Harvest - DVD That Kind of Girl - BD The Pleasure Girls - BD Beat Girl aka Wild For Kicks – BD/Amazon Prime The Beauty Jungle - DVD What Have You Done To Solange? – BD A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin – BD All the Colours of the Dark – BD Murder! – BD/DVD Quentin Tarantino The Saint In London – DVD OOP/ Action in Arabia – DVD OOP/ok.ru The Hidden Room aka Obsession - DVD Murder without Crime - DVD Pandora and the Flying Dutchman - BD The Yellow Balloon – DVD/Amazon Instant The Night My Number Came Up - BD Johnny Nobody - ? All Night Long - BD Strongroom – DVD OOP/ Youtube The Idol - Youtube Edited March 1, 2021 by DEF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted March 1, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 1, 2021 Needless to say, many of these can be found relatively regularly on Talking Pictures TV and a few of them on whatever Movies4Men is called these days. Wonderful resources. Also, always check ok.ru as they are much better for rare films these days than YouTube is. Their search is really shit so always use Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members waters44 Posted March 1, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 1, 2021 My Dad won't be happy that Eric Sykes' The Plank isn't on that list! Anyway thank you for posting the list, great stuff! Shamefully I think I have only seen Kind Hearts & Coronets Chalk me down as another one who loved the Empire podcast with Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino, its a fairly big commitment at 3hrs but really really enjoyable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted March 1, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 1, 2021 34 minutes ago, waters44 said: My Dad won't be happy that Eric Sykes' The Plank isn't on that list! Anyway thank you for posting the list, great stuff! Shamefully I think I have only seen Kind Hearts & Coronets Chalk me down as another one who loved the Empire podcast with Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino, its a fairly big commitment at 3hrs but really really enjoyable My dad will happily talk though the merits of all different versions of The Plank if you give him an opening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted March 1, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 1, 2021 All three are strong lists, having looked through them in depth. Tarantino usually has terrible taste in films but All Night Long, Strongroom and The Hidden Room are all excellent and those are the only ones I've seen on his list, so I'm quite hopeful for the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chris B Posted March 1, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 1, 2021 Really interesting list. Vampyres and The Flesh And The Fiends are both cracking, and not ones I'd have expected to see in almost anyone's list, let alone Scorcese's. The Flesh and the Fiend was also really odd for me, as not only was a pre-fame Robin Askwith a major part of it, you suddenly see why so much was invested in him. The lad was far more charismatic than I'd realised (even though I dislike his comedy stuff). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossman Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Strongroom keeps popping up on Sony Classics most weeks in the small hours. They also had The Pumpkin Eater on a few times, last month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted July 5, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted July 5, 2021 Tarantino was right about The Yellow Balloon as well, superb film, and a regular on TPTV. You can't go wrong with J. Lee Thompson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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