Your Face Here - British Cult Films

Your Face Here - Ali Catterall & Simon Wells
Fourth Estate Paperback 2001

British Cult Movies since the Sixties.

Ali & Simon examine 12 British Cult movies by talking to the people who made them, quoting from other sources and visiting the locations where they were filmed. They've also given me the impetus to watch these 12 films. One of them  I haven't seen before, and one I currently don't own a copy of, but hope to remedy soon. Some are based on books, some have boffo soundtracks, all have an essential Britishness and there's a terrific smorgasbord of music, sex, violence, alcohol, drugs, horror, laughter, weirdness, crime, sacrifice and murder.
All in a day's film-watching. Wales and Northern Ireland don't get much of a look-in, Scotland is well represented, there's predictably plenty of London but there's also Newcastle and Brighton and Liverpool by proxy.
Some great stories, some great talent, some great (and not so great) acting, and a verve, energy and wit that exhilarates.
There's also a sense of peeling back the exterior and giving the viewer a glimpse into worlds we would not otherwise (and might not want to) see.
Here's the list =
A Hard Day's Night
Blow Up
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Performance
Get Carter
A Clockwork Orange
The Wicker Man
Quadrophenia
Withnail & I
Naked
Trainspotting
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

So that's The Beatles, The Yardbirds, Robin Askwith, Mick Jagger, Alf Roberts, Fred Elliott, Sir Christopher Lee, Sting, Uncle Monty, Mike Leigh, Dale Winton and Vinnie Jones. See you (t)here.