Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, … the low budget holds it back from getting into anything really interesting so it just falls back on avant gard abstraction and weirdness which is ok cause weatleys pretty good at that stuff. Ben Wheatley’s latest is experimental, idiosyncratic and bordering on the impenetrable. A major character is pulled on screen in a tug of war competition. Similar to Ben Wheatley: 10 Films To Watch If You Loved Parasite. It’s a brilliant adaptation. horror films, heist…Just a list of some pretty cool movie posters on the LB database. Once again Wheatley – most explicitly but most effectively – defies genre convention, expertly navigating melodrama with hitmen, gangsters with body horror, all set within the innocent, pastoral English countryside.A Field in England is set during the English Civil War in the 17th century and has a black and white achromatic image – this is a time of little vibrancy and little hope. It boasts an excellent and diverse cast – possibly Wheatley’s most glamorous to date – with Cillian Murphy, Brie Larson, Sam Riley, Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley, and, of course, Michael Smiley who is as much a staple in Wheatley’s films as anything else. Story has always got to be an element of it, unless you’re making absolutely abstract cinema, but, you know, the story is a paste that goes on top of something else.
I’d argue there’s only really one, and it’s this: people change.So, A Field in England is deliberately weird and obtuse. Amy Jump’s script is given the time and space to be funny and witty and is somewhat the central aspect of the film – where there is no shooting, there is always a hilarious dialogue between two or more of the characters. Films like Kill List and Sightseers have made Ben Wheatley one of British cinema’s most singular voices.
With the movie arriving in American theaters and on VOD this week, we had the opportunity to speak with Wheatley about his favorite movies — which, in turn, revealed an insight into the filmmaker’s own creative process.“It’s always a hard thing, this listing stuff,” says Wheatley. And I remember not being that impressed by it, because it was built up as being the most terrifying movie ever, and when it’s up against Totally, yeah. Beginning his career in advertising, Wheatley first gained recognition and acclaim for his commercials and short films, before transitioning into feature films and television programmes. One mistake after another leads the deal into turmoil and the two gangs find themselves in a shoot-out.Free Fire ditches the glam of its Hollywood action predecessors, mocking the typical action tropes; the shooting is messy, dirty, and the professional gunmen miss their targets more than they hit them. It’s so densely packed. The modern-modern version where they’ve cleaned it up. still though once you get the whole idea of agency and control and sublimation of the self in support of a greater power you kind of get boredHands down one of the absolute best “psychedelia” themed horror films I’ve ever seen in my life.This was so visually pleasing it kept me hooked all the way through despite the narrative being a little foggy. On this IMDbrief, we break down our favorite panels and surprises from July 2020's Comic-Con@Home.Keep up with all the biggest announcements and updates with IMDb's breaking news roundup of Comic-Con@Home 2020. He finds a large field and more deserters who all travel together to find a pub. I must say I’m a fan of the non-voiceover version. [I guess there would have to be a Scorsese movie, but there are so many to choose from. So that for me was the only real concept I had of it for a long time, and then I read the Philip K. Dick book. I think why I like it is that it’s a film that so transports you to somewhere else. In a relatively short period of time English filmmaker Ben Wheatley has proven to be a prolific and unpredictable filmmaker.