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Jun 14, 2017 · Ben Wheatley’s Crossover Moment: How a British Genre Director Became an International Auteur With ‘Sightseers’. In this excerpt from a new book on the filmmaker, Adam Nayman explains how ...
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead review – Ben Wheatley contrives a simmering hothouse of misery. Neil Maskell is the standout performer in Wheatley’s drama of dysfunction, as a man inviting his ...
Feb 26, 2015 · 10. Ben Wheatley is the director of Down Terrace, Kill List, Sightseers, and A Field in England. He says: “Criterion, to me, has always been an exclusive collection. It stood out due to the choices they made and the design. But also, because I live in the UK, they were harder to get hold of and, due to the region settings on DVD and Blu-ray ...
Aug 15, 2016 · The latest work from Wheatley and Jump is “ High-Rise ,” a visionary adaptation of a 1975 novel by J.G. Ballard, depicts the descent of an ultra-modern London apartment house into feral anarchy. In my 3 1/2-star review of the film, I wrote that “between the richness of incident—semi-riots in the high-rise’s grocery market, Laing’s ...
Jan 30, 2021 · There’s a wonderfully well-choreographed scene involving an axe and some toes and a genuinely seat-edge chase, both showcasing Wheatley at his most comfortable, effortlessly thrilling us in ways ...
Aug 3, 2023 · The director, Ben Wheatley, is the latest indie filmmaker to take on a big commercial project, as Taika Waititi did spectacularly with Thor: Ragnarok and Chloé Zhao less so with Eternals ...
Ben Wheatley (born 1972 in Billericay, Essex, England) is a writer-director, best known for his low-budget folk horror films "Kill List" (2011) and "A Field in England" (2013), dystopian satire "High-Rise" (2015), and black comedy action film "Free Fire" (2016). He is married to screenwriter Amy Jump, with whom he collaborates on many of his scripts.
