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Long Good Friday scored twice as many votes as its
nearest rival Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Votes for Sliding Doors, 28 Days Later and
Oliver! were all very close
All the remaining positions were close as well with only one
or two votes separating each film
Of all the BBC LONDON presenters, Eddie Nestor proved the
best tipster: his favourite, Sliding Doors, came third
in the poll
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Classic
gangster flick The Long Good Friday has
been named as your favourite London film...ever.
The cinematic tale of one fateful day in the life of ruthless
entrepreneur Harold Shand beat the likes of Lock, Stock and Two
Smoking Barrels' comical, lairy crims and Gwyneth Paltrow's
Sliding Doors to the top spot.
The Long Good Friday scored twice as many votes as its nearest
rival, Guy Ritchie's second placed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels.
Oliver! was your favourite in the Family/Musical category,
28 Days Later your top Horror flick, Passport to Pimlico
your number one Comedy and Alfie your favourite Drama.
Hundreds of people took part in the BBC London poll, voting through
our website, via a dedicated telephone line and through The Times
newspaper's website.
 Wayne
Donaldson from East London was our lucky winner. He receives
a pair of tickets to see the London Film festival's closing night
gala screening of I Heart Huckabees (pictured) starring Jude
Law, Dustin Hoffman and Naomi Watts on Thursday 4 November
at the Odeon Leicester Square.
He'll
also be given the opportunity to star as an extra in a film shot
in London later this year.
Here's
the rundown of how your votes were cast:
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London's
Top 20
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1.
The Long Good Friday (top
Crime film)
2. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
3. Sliding Doors
4. Oliver! (top Family/Musical
film)
5. 28 Days Later (top
Horror film)
6. Passport to Pimlico (top
Comedy film)
7. Notting Hill
8. Mary Poppins
9. Withnail & I
10. Alfie (top Drama
film)
11. An American Werewolf in London
12. Shaun of the Dead
13. Performance
14. The Ladykillers
15. The Lavender Hill Mob
16.
Blow-Up
17. Mona Lisa
18. Quadrophenia
19. Up the Junction
20. A Clockwork Orange
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BBC
London presenters' favourite London films
Amy Lamé
Bright
Young Things
 "Features
lots of London locations including fabulous interior and exterior
shots of Somerset House and Eltham Palace. For me it encapsulates
the high glamour of London in the 1930s and the jet set cocktail
generation."
Danny Baker's Breakfast Show weekdays 6am-9am>>
Danny
Baker
The
London Nobody Knows
 "Cities
are rarely used in a subtle way in feature films...better are the
few curious big screen documentaries from the 50s and 60s that actually
made the city the star, such as this one hosted by James Mason.
When they pop up on TV today I just want to climb inside the screen
and mooch about those disappeared streets forever."
Danny Baker's Breakfast Show weekdays 6am-9am>>
Robert
Elms
Alfie
 "It's
set in that 60s London that always seems so exciting from afar,
and Michael Caine is the quintessential London wide-boy actor. The
river and the South Bank feature a lot, representing an optimistic
vision of London that seems quite distinctive now."
Robert
Elms 12-3pm weekdays>>
Eddie
Nestor
Sliding
Doors
 "Lots
of great London street scenes and, of course, the tube. Part of
the fun is figuring out all the locations! I also love the film
because I spend my whole life wondering, "What If This....?
And What If That…?"
Eddie & Kath 5-7pm weekdays>>
JoAnne Good
Up The Junction
 "London
looks better in black and white. I love the images of Clapham -
which was then a thriving ghetto and nothing like the gentrified
version that it is today. The film was adapted from Nell Dunn's
TV play - and she writes so well for women."
Late Nights with
JoAnne Good 10pm-2am weekdays>>
Vanessa
Feltz
My Fair Lady
 "A
wonderfully witty love story of sexual and class politics in Victorian
London. Great music, superb writing, and fabulous frocks from Cecil
Beaton. Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle is a bit awkward as a cockney
- but she looks ravishing."
Vanessa
Feltz 3-5pm weekdays>>
Agree or disagree with those choices? Have your say...
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Larry
Dirty pretty things should have got a nod or two.
MARCELO ARCE ARGENTINA CHACO
SLIDING DOORS
john k
Obviously nobody has ever see Passport To Shame which portrays the seamy side of London in the fifties and features Diana Dors as a prostitue plying her trade up and down Queensway just outside Whiteley's. The brothel she works in is in Courtfield Gardens just off Cromwell Road. The Blue Lamp of course is also a qintessential London in the fifties film although I have a certain fondness for 23 Paces to Baker Street when Van Johnson goes into his flat whose exterior is in Portman Square but is miraculously then able to go on to the balcony at the back of his flat which overlooks the Thames. There's Michael Winner's I'll Never Forget Whatsisname which is a great view of Swingin' London. Hitchcock's 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much, The League Of Gentlemen - not the TV series but the film from which the title was taken. And so on...
wix
I love most of the film
BigVern
Sliding Doors?!?!
Do me a favour, who is voting for this stuff?
LGF is a great film and there are some other good London based films there, but I ask you. In your heart of hearts do you really think Sliding Doors is superior to Love Honour and Obey which doesn't even seem to have made the list at all.
Call yourself Londoners? why not just vote for Bridget Jones and go get the beauty products, the chardonnay and the chocolate out.
Gavin Juniper
The one film everyone has forgotten and is a brilliant London piece is 101 Dalmations. Set in Primrose Hill, look at how Disney studios portray London houses and characters. I love it, if only because it's London and at the same time, it's not. Just like the real one.
mike a
The Blue Lamp - if only for introducing us to George Dixon, then a ordinary PC, based at Paddington Green station (when it was on the Green), but equally for all the location filming in and around Sutherland Avenue in late 1940s Maida Vale - marvel not just at car chases but the wide thoroughfares completely devoid of any traffic, yellow lines, red routes, and clutter such as road signs and parking meters!
Hackney Nick
Where's Goodbye Charlie Bright? Londoners need to get down the video shop!
Lou
I'm not sure that LGF is better than Mona Lisa but the poll results seem reasonable apart from the appalingly unrepresentative Notting Hill: London with no non-white faces? And also where are the great working class films? Nil By mouth or anything by Mike Leigh? And Nick Love should've had an entry: both Football Factory and Goodbye Charlie Bright conspicuous by their absence...
Jarrod Walker
I thought Michael Winterbottom's 'Wonderland' was a fantastic London film - sad to not see it in the list...
Chris Smith
Shaun of the dead is the film of the year and it's up to the same level as briget jones in best all time british movies
jessie
i am actually shocked that lord of the rings trilogy is not in the list as i blieve it should be number one.
Steve Jones
Personally, I'd replace Notting Hill with Curtis' first work - The Tall Guy - a much closer representation of London, and a well underrated film (if not groundbreaking). Set around Camden and the West End.
Thomas
Withnail and I wasn't as high as I'd like. But at least it's there.
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