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My spontaneous thoughts having just watched A FIELD IN ENGLAND: http://boxd.it/1q5Cb Suspect my evaluation of the film differs from many. Be keen to hear what people made of it.
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I think Kill List should've been brilliant but one of the things that holds it back is the lead actor. Dunno who is he but doesn't he normally pop up in those cringeworthy 'cor blimey guvnor geezerish Guy Ritchie type movies.
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Bought A Field In England on Blu yesterday. Hopefully can fit it in later this afternooon . . .
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Yeah, I like Maskell. Utopia is great - you should watch it, Jack - and he's really quite funny in it (although I've only watched the first few eps so far). I think he's a good actor and he was superb in Kill List. I've met him before too. Anyway, I can't seem to get A Field in England out of my head. It's deliberately obtuse and one that definately requires the viewer to meet it part way. I read criticisms on the fact that its budget clearly shows (it does) and it looks like a bunch of actors in costumes (again, it does), but I didn't find that a problem, as it's not unlike Theatre in that it requires the audience to accept its limitations. I found its themes quite existential and it was all quite otherworldly, and I like that. It stuck with me anyhow. |
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To be honest, at first I found AFIE a little ponderous, but as it grew on me the deeper side crept up and put some nice dark images overlaying the 'four guys in a field' basics, also liked the witchcraft/mushrooms/stones plot points, this one may grow into quite a nice cult classic.
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I was harsh on it, but only because it lacked that final piece that would have made it a firm favourite, it came so close as well, I thought it had a almost epic spaghetti western feel in the final moments. The (beginning esp) mushroom scene was admittedly amazing, I just wish they could have come up with something else to match it. Endings can make or break a film for me sometimes. Esp amongst students doing mushrooms.
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Watched it again last night with the (very funny) commentary, and watched a few of the featurettes. There was one key film influence I didn't pick up on, but got what they meant as soon as the named it: Onibaba . I did think on second watch, that bit where they are being dragged along the rope, gliding past shot with a little 'whoosh' sound, is soooooo 1960's J-horror . . .
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So I've ordered the Blu re-release of Onibaba, and started re-reading Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill. Yes, this film has definitely left its mark on me . . .
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Anyone after Sightseers on Blu-ray? Watched once, £8, free postage if anyone's interested.
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