Nolan's first bug, Scott's first bike, Leigh's first awkward haircut — British cinema's baby pictures.
This critically acclaimed DVD contains 16 of the best classic and award winning British short films and delivers a snapshot of British cinema past and present. It includes films from Britain's most exciting new talent alongside early shorts from it's most successful filmmakers' amongst them Chris Nolan (Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins), Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien), Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies) and Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours). 01 About a Girl - Brian Percival 02 Boy & Bicycle - Ridley Scott 03 Dear Phone - Peter Greenaway 04 Doodlebug - Christopher Nolan 05 Eight - Stephen Daldry 06 Gasman - Lynne Ramsay 07 Girl Chewing Gum - John Smith 08 Home - Morag McKinnon 09 Joyride - Jim Gillespie 10 Inside Out - Tom & Charles Guard 11 Je Taime John Wayne - Toby Macdonald 12 The Sheep Thief - Asif Kapadia 13 The Short & Curlies - Mike Leigh 14 Telling Lies - Simon Ellis 15 UK Images - Martin Parr 16 Whos My Favourite Girl? - Adrian J. McDowall
Direction
Scott's 1965 debut already has that atmospheric gloom.
Writing
Greenaway's obsessive phone taxonomy is pure weirdo cinema.
Cinematography
Ramsay's Gasman — childhood memory as hazy blue poetry.
Director
Stephen Daldry
Stephen Daldry
Self - Commentary, Eight (voice)
Jim Gillespie
Self - Commentary, Joyride (voice)
Peter Greenaway
Self - Commentary, Dear Phone (voice)
Asif Kapadia
Self - Commentary, The Sheep Thief (voice)
Mike Leigh
Self - Commentary, The Short & Curlies (voice)
Christopher Nolan
Self - Commentary, Doodlebug (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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