ben wheatley - kill list

I'd watch A Field in England - from the shots I am looking at its clearly a re-thread of Winstanley

By "hauntological" they meant "has portishead on the soundtrack" tbh

Hope they were all drinking expensive red wine too.

Not during the panel/Q&A but when they wrapped up they said "feel free to come have a chat with us at the bar afterwards" which I took as my cue to escape. I have a feeling they were the same pair I saw give a talk on "the alchemical landscape" last year, tho if that's the case at least one of them is way more irritating than I remember

I think they must have had a bet on to see how long they could go without mentioning amy jump too

Like they talked at length about how the film is situated within the producer jeremy thomas's oeuvre, then it was "wheatley's high-rise" for ages, must have been halfway through by the time she got a mention. It's weird, almost like saying "Joel coen's Fargo"

Not during the panel/Q&A but when they wrapped up they said "feel free to come have a chat with us at the bar afterwards" which I took as my cue to escape. I have a feeling they were the same pair I saw give a talk on "the alchemical landscape" last year, tho if that's the case at least one of them is way more irritating than I remember

I think they must have had a bet on to see how long they could go without mentioning amy jump too

lol pocket posting?

something more sinister than that, I think

Talking abt Brit films in the 40s

"The Britsh have made what they always do: nothing"

- JLG in Histoire(s) du Cinema

never has a repeated letter in a username been more apt

Alberto Cavalcanti and Emeric Pressburger are two notable + great "Brits" from that era!

JLG dismissing the Archers is sad

Watched A Field In England last night. Not sure if I was sold on it to be honest. The whole thing felt deliberately confusing. We ended up putting on 'subtitles for the hard of thinking' and without them I somehow doubt I'd have had any idea what was going on.

Alberto Cavalcanti and Emeric Pressburger are two notable + great "Brits" from that era!

― calzino, Sunday, 13 March 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, and he talks about Hitch (even if he was as much Hollywood).

Rings a lot more true today.

imago I am reading the English newspapers and I have something more exciting for you:

The Stone Roses are preparing to release their third album – more than 20 years after their second, according to reports.

The re-formed band announced a set of live dates in Manchester and Scotland in November, having got back together in 2012, and there have been rumours of new studio material since.

According to the Mirror, a source said: “Ian Brown and the lads have been busy getting their next album ready. It will be album number three.

“It’s a long time coming, but they feel the time is right now. They’ve been back in the studio. Everyone is very excited about it.”

Announcing the live dates last year, another unnamed source was quoted by the Sun as saying that fans hoping for a new album would soon be “getting their wish”. The source reportedly added: “When the band reunited in 2012 there was never any concrete plans. But now they feel everything is in place to record a new album”.

A spokesman for the band did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday.

Many Stone Roses fans will have hoped to have got their hands on a new album already. The band’s bassist, Mani, having promised a new release for 2015. Speaking two years earlier, he said the band had been “working on a few bits” and, asked when a release could be expected, he said: “2015 man, 2015.”

However, earlier in 2013, Mani’s bandmate John Squire had predicted a new album would take “about five years” to finish.

After a successful first album in 1989, the band got into a legal fight with their record label and did not release any new material for five years. Two years after their follow-up album Second Coming, the band split up.

Now that's hauntological!

Watched A Field In England last night. Not sure if I was sold on it to be honest. The whole thing felt deliberately confusing. We ended up putting on 'subtitles for the hard of thinking' and without them I somehow doubt I'd have had any idea what was going on.

― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Monday, March 14, 2016 8:41 AM (6 hours ago)

It didn't feel confusing to me at all, and I was still internetting while it was on (admittedly I did get so into it I stopped doing things on the internet halfway through and just concentrated on the film). Like, obviously there are bits that don't make real-world sense and it's left ambiguous (though not really that ambiguous) about exactly what happened, but it remains perfectly true to its own internal logic, and that's all that a piece of fiction needs to do. I made the mistake of reading IMDB comments about this, so I'm particularly prickly about people who didn't get it and then fling accusations at the film rather than questioning themselves.

^^^^srsly

oh no i'm happy with leaving things to interpretation etc, and I think one of the best things about Kill List is that it presents things in a disjointed way and doesn't spoon feed you the plot. I just didn't feel as though that style worked so well on AFIE. Rather than being intrigued, I just felt confused and tipping on the edge of being a bit bored by it. Might need to try giving it another go, but it just felt a bit 'random'. Some sequences were great, others just frustrating and illogical and reminded me of bad student films... Not sure if it was the set I was watching it on, but the way the dialogue was put together meant I had trouble understanding a what people were saying most of the time too.

Maybe it was deliberate, but I found it really hard to understand what was motivating a lot of the characters to do what they did, and 'LOL shrooms' doesn't feel like a very satisfactory answer even though that's probably the reason.

i loved it the first time through and found it tantalizing rather than frustrating, but if you're game for a rewatch, it might be useful to read up on some of the folklore about mushroom circles and the like

huh, I just found out Laurie Rose is not a woman

High-Rise is fantastic. My favorite film this year so far.

Saw a field in England the last night and liked it very much but think that it's quite clearly not bothered about 'making sense' as a plot. Loved the floaty mystic stylised feel and the nature and the characters and the performers and wow did it look great.

Kill list otoh has plots, they just contradict each other and there's no one answer that makes sense within the film's logic. That's fine too, it's quite brilliant without having to tick off plot boxes at the end.

Somehow I made it to 2019 without having seen Kill List or having it spoiled - what a movie!

behold the dark heart of england

it's one of my favourite films of the last ten years

yep.

Still thinking about this. I've been so frustrated and disappointed with the current round of gimmicky or mystery box horror movies...