100 Films and a Funeral | movie | 2007 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

This documentary covers the life and death of London-based Polygram Filmed Entertainment. | dG1fclBLMHJwNWoxeEU

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00:00Later that year, the phrase Cool Britannia began popping up in the press

00:04after Newsweek pronounced London the coolest capital in the world.

00:08For the first time since the swinging 60s, British culture was hot.

00:12I don't think we all felt suddenly tremendously cool.

00:15I think we were all reading that we were supposed to be.

00:19But I do think that it coincided with Trainspotting.

00:22That was almost a unique fusion of film and music at that point in time,

00:28and that was exciting.

00:29I mean, Cool Britannia came out of the music business,

00:31and Polygram came out of the music business,

00:33which I'm sure that's not a coincidence.

00:35I think that they managed to capture what I think we're missing,

00:38which is the sort of independent spirit and passion

00:41that we have in the music business here.

00:43And it seems to me they kind of locked onto that

00:45and carried it through into movies.

00:47It was very cool.

00:48No one else had done it like that.

00:50No one could believe we would advertise in market films like that.

00:53It was just on that edge,

00:55and we were right there on the top of that wave.