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It contains quite a few excellent, but expected, classics from the British canon.
For Anglophiles, cinephiles, and the Venn-diagram overlap of the two, its invaluable.
Heres a handful of films you might not have had a chance to see before to get you started.
That isnt a bad place to start with Guinness, but its a terrible place to stop.
Thats particularly evident in the comedies Guinness made for Ealing Studios in the 1940s and 1950s.
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(The latter co-stars Peter Sellers, who idolized Guinness.
It was remade, with mixed results, by Joel and Ethan Coen in 2004.)
Passport to Pimlico(1949)
Ealing didnt necessarily need Guinness to make a great comedy.
It also provided a model for horror anthology films fromBlack SabbathtoTales from the Hoodto follow.
Amanda Donohoe stars as a snake-worshipping priestess opposite a young Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi.
Shes not alone, there, however.
