Director's Focus - Guy Ritchie - RR's top five films and interesting facts

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Director's Focus -           

Guy Ritchie

The new film, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is coming to theatres soon. The director Guy Ritchie has directed some of the most well written, provocative and exciting films of the past few decades. Unfortunately, he is probably better known for being married to Madonna. With the marriage behind him, he has gone on to make some of the biggest films of his career. 

Interesting facts about Guy Ritchie:

  1. Guy won the MTV Movie Award Best New Filmmaker for Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1999.
  2. Often works with Jason Statham, Mark Strong and Matthew Vaughn
  3. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and unwatchable.
Here are RR's top five Guy Ritchie films*:





*Ritchie's style tend to be violent and contains rough language. 
Every once and awhile, I will put together a short compilation of some of the most influential directors in film, called the Director's Focus. When considering a film to watch, these suggestions might help you to choose better films. 
Rankings by Russell Matthews @ Russelling Reviews 

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