I think Ben Wheatley, together with partner/writer/editor Amy Jump, is one of the most interesting directors working now. He makes genre films that are, thanks to Jump's scripts, very sharp and perceptive, but also very weird, and not at all afraid to push audiences out of their comfort zones. A Field in England is emblematic…
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Last summer Ben Wheatley's film A Field in England started to see release, with a simultaneous drop in theaters, on disc, and on cable and VOD in the UK. It went on to play festivals and finally opened in the US last week. Along with the film's UK release last year was a "digital masterclass"…
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It's not like Down Terrace, Kill List, and Sightseers were safe and conventional to begin with, but Ben Wheatley's latest feature is by all accounts his weirdest yet. A quick glance at the new trailer, and you'll see exactly what we mean. Set during the English Civil War, A Field in England centers around a…
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"A middle school student prone to wild daydreams devotes his waking hours to stretching and flexibility exercises with the ultimate goal of one day being able to lick his own penis." Yes, Fantastic Fest 2013 is quickly approaching and the second wave of programming has just been announced. That graphic description is of a Japanese…
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As we've said before, Ben Wheatley is among the most interesting genre directors working right now. Kill List was a wild thriller, but also a fantastic explosion of ideas of masculinity and impotence; Sightseers is a fantastically funny, bloody comedy that also plays with the extreme results of frustrated creative impulses. His next film is…
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Ben Wheatley hasn't been making features for very long, but he's sure good at making his time count. In the four years since his first, Down Terrace, he's managed to direct three more, each one wonderfully dark and twisted in its own special way. His black romantic comedy Sightseers is still in theaters over here…
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Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace, Kill List) is making some of the best, smartest, and weirdest genre films going right now. His terrific black comedy Sightseers opens in some US theaters and on VOD this week, and now his follow-up effort has a distributor. Drafthouse Films has just announced the acquisition of A Field in England, which…
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