The London Lounge

.... go visit London?

NJS recently wrote about James Bond which sent me on a Connery Bond marathon session this weekend and now all I want to do is head to London and unleash a bit of that inner - Bond that we all have in us. (Don't deny that you think just a little about Bond when you get fitted at Poole, drop into Budd, pick a few ties from Turnbull, lunch at Wilton's, light-up at Davidoff, dine at the Club, perambulate St. James's Sq etc, etc, etc - or whatever your London routine).

Unfortunately, I'm not slated to be back in London till mid-December.

So, in the meantime, I'll have to settle for watching some more movies. Give me you suggestions for London/England/Anglophile movies that really get you inspired.

Cheers, st.tully

Three very different takes that should not fail getting you in the mood:
Beatles Hard Day's Night; Kind Hearts and Coronets; and Antonioni's Blow Up.

Educating Rita, Chariots of Fire, Brideshead Revisited, Alfie.

Because there is so much more to London than just W1...

Patrick Keiller's London (1994): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdmgfl ... shortfilms
Peter Ackroyd's London (2004): http://youtu.be/axOH9ZeA9TE
David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises (2007): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZFkSKgcUpA
Lone Scherfig's An Education (2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn9IMe5jmf0
Franc Roddam's Quadrophenia (1979): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF-glrpjqog
Sidney J. Furie's The Ipcress File (1965): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui5ec35Toc4
John Mackenzie's The Long Good Friday (1980): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tiH5oAwkYE