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London, as a city, has appeared in film in many different ways. 

There's the romantic London of Richard Curtis' "Notting Hill", the violent gangster ridden London of "The Long Good Friday", seedy underground London in "The Crying Game" it can even be argued that London is part of a Western as John Wayne's "Brannigan" shoots it's way across the Capital.

We'll be examine all of these and many others as we take a long look at London in film. Join us for the ride.

Welcome to London in Film

London in film, is a strange and contradictory city. One level it's very obvious. It's the city of Big Ben, red buses and Tower Bridge. All visible distinct shorthand that place a film in what is arguably, the world's capital city.

There is another London is a little more surreal, unreal if you will. A London that has an impossible geography. The London that has cobbled streets nestling cheeck to jowel with the Mall. Where a quick left turn from the Isle of Dogs finds you walking through Hyde Park.

There is of course the fictional, never existed at all London of Mary Poppins, Peter Pan and Harry Potter. Although Kings Cross now boats a platform 9 3/4.

Lastly, and most importantly, London is it's people. It's cinematic people. Real one's like Michael Caine, Barbara Windsor, Charlie Chaplin, Ray Winstone and Bob Hoskins.
It's fictional ones like Fagin, Harold Shand, Alfie Elkns. People with the London tube map for arteries. And those who are forever associated with London, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the ripper  & James Bond.

In this blog over the coming weeks, we'll be looking at seminal London films. highlighting London locations and examining the London it represents.