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Proud to Be British (1973)

Posted By: IrGens
Proud to Be British (1973)

Proud to Be British (1973)
DVDRip | .MKV, x264, 2500 kbps, 704x576 | English, AAC, 160 kbps, 2 Ch | 28 mins | 588 MB
Director: Nick Broomfield | Genre: Documentary

Made while Nick Broomfield was still a film student, it's a wry but ultimately troubling examination of British attitudes in an affluent area of Britain - the English home counties.

DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS:

"My first film at the National Film School. Started as a student exercise and became this film a year later. Mixture of black and white and color, learned about interviewing and working with synch sound.

Crew: Ben Lewin, who did interviews; Diana Ruston; Mike Radford, who despaired at my lack of organisation. He wrote I've 'got to get it together' on my camera reports, which I thought very insulting at the time."

"Directed by Nicholas Broomfield, student at the National Film School in Beaconsfield, including a highly-articulate carpenter whose explanation of why he was proud to be British gave the film its title. Following closely on a shot of the carpenter's council house was a shot of Earl Howe talking in front of his home. Mr. Ronald Bell talked about education and immigration, and there was film taken at a hunt and a girls' private school. The Church was exemplified by the Rev. Oscar Ambrose and his church at Penn. Mr. Broomfield claimed to be giving a straight forward account of the events and places he had filmed, but in fact 'Proud to be British' emerged as low-key satire of South Bucks attitudes. It was difficult to avoid the conclusion that it was a film about private schooling, the Church and the Conservative Party, made by a left wing, pro-comprehensive atheist, though Mr. Broomfield said this would be an exaggeration!"
- The Buckinghamshire Advertiser

"An hilariously funny and widely acclaimed film made in the heart of the 'Home Counties,' a region that clings to a way of life that is reminiscent of the time when Britain was at the peak of her Colonial power. We see how those nationalistic sentiments of courage, tenacity, the will to win, and the will to rule, continue to exist and how they are passed on and reiterated by the younger generation."
- Jim Pines, Time Out

Proud to Be British (1973)

Proud to Be British (1973)

Proud to Be British (1973)

Proud to Be British (1973)

Proud to Be British (1973)