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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels voted top London film

Posted by Team Boxwish on 24 October 2008 at 01.04PM

He might be taking a kicking in the press over his very public separation from wife Madonna, but we’ve got something to bring a smile to the face of Brit director Guy Ritchie – his debut film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels has been named the best movie set in London. The crime caper starring Jason Statham and Vinnie Jones clocks in with London locales such as Bethnall Green, Southwark and Hackney securing it the top spot in a poll conducted to coincide with The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival which kicked off on 15th October. So, which other capital classics ranked in the survey? Read on.

Coming in second was Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s “zom-rom-com” Shaun of the Dead while the bronze medal was awarded to another zombie yarn, this time the full-out terror of Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later starring Cillian Murphy. In the latter, London was a deserted ghost town after being ravaged by a nasty virus but its streets are bustling with Christmas shoppers in Richard Curtis’s romantic-comedy Love Actually at four. The top five is rounded out by the debauched drinking of Richard E. Grant’s “resting” actor Withnail in cult favourite Withnail and I.

The rest of the top ten sees more of the same. There are two more Curtis rom-coms – Bridget Jones’s Diary (6th) and Notting Hill (8th) joined by another Ritchie flick – 2000’s Snatch (9th). Ritchie’s gangster theme continues with The Long Good Friday (10th) and horror gets another shout-out with An American Werewolf in London (7th), suggesting that life in London is made up of scares, snogs and shady dealings. Is this the city you know?

[via WENN]