"Bashing the British film industry has long been a national pastime...

October 10, 2004 Sunday shorts.

"Bashing the British film industry has long been a national pastime, along with
moaning about the weather and worrying about the sex lives of politicians," writes Mark Kermode, introducing a big splashy feature in the Observer. "Yet unlikely as it may seem, there is currently an unfashionably buoyant air about contemporary British film-making - if not within the industry, then at least as far as audiences are concerned."

Then it's on to mini-profiles of 25 prominent figures in British film - actors, directors, producers - and a brief round-up of some of the best British movies now showing or coming soon.

CONSIDER...

How does this extract from the Observer compare to anything you have heard about the British film industry lately?