The subhead on this Sunday Times of London article asks, "Leaderless, underfunded and short on compelling subjects, British film-makers are up against it, thinks Stephen Frears. So, will he do anything about it?"

Umm, if your idea of a "Big British Film" is this rather than this, isn't the case lost already? Besides, why should England, whose left has infinitely less civilizational confidence than your average Hollywood denizen--and that's saying something--buck the trend towards the New Smallness that Tinseltown began?