Tag: Ben Wheatley
In the Earth | Review
Middling Earth: Wheatley Explores Favored Motifs in Pensive Pandemic Exercise
If we’ve gleaned anything about circumventing Mother Nature, perhaps those 1970s Chiffon margarine commercials featuring...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #83. Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth
In the Earth
Ben Wheatley, like Neill Blomkamp, quietly directed a genre film in the throes of the pandemic. In the Earth, produced and financed...
Rebecca | Review
De Winter of Our Discontent: Wheatley Wavers with Empty Remake of Du Maurier Classic
Remaking a property which was previously adapted by none other than...
IndieSponge Episode: 14 – 2020 Venice Film Festival Predictions
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, I invited Tommaso Tocci to discuss the possible titles that might make it into the 2020 edition of...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Mark Jackson’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? In 2018, Mark Jackson launched his third feature...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #31. Rebecca – Ben Wheatley
Rebecca
A decade into feature filmmaking and Ben Wheatley has taken it upon himself to remake Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 classic Rebecca, which won the Best...
Video Interview: Peter Strickland – In Fabric
We sat with filmmaker Peter Strickland following the premiere of his latest film In Fabric at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Strickland shares...
In Fabric | Review
Dress to Kill: Strickland Strikes Again in Luscious Homage to 70s Cinema
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the...
Through the Looking Glass: The Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 – Picks #100 to #11
While we look forward to a plentiful 2019 as far as foreign cinema is concerned (of which we highlighted #300-151 and our countdown #150-1 to anticipate...
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead | 2018 Intl. Film Festival & Awards Macao Review
New Year’s Evil: Wheatley Finds Humanity Amid Caustic Bickering
Shapeshifting his way along a varied filmography, Ben Wheatley is back after the tongue-in-cheek gunplay bonanza...
Video Interview: Ben Wheatley – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead. | 2018 Intl. Film Festival & Awards Macao
Very much an eclectic, but at the same time cultivating a recognizable brand of cinema, Ben Wheatley is keeping busy these days with his...
Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11
As we look forward to a plentiful year of new cinematic offerings in 2018, it’s also time to look even further into the horizon...
Tracking Shot: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Asghar Farhadi & Martin Scorsese Shooting in August
“Tracking Shot” is a top of month featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing. With summer...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
Free Fire | 2016 BFI London Film Festival Review
Gunfight at Boston, MA: Wheatley’s Portrait of a Vicious Shootout
Massachusetts, 1970s. More precisely, the docks of Boston, where plans for a weapons trade at...
The Conversation: Cinema Italiano – 2016 Venice Film Festival Predictions
Looking towards the Lido, we’re just over three months away before the fourth quarter Fall Festival circuit kick off, and the final prestigious competition...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #39. Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire
Free Fire
Director: Ben Wheatley
Writers: Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump
British director Ben Wheatley returns with his sixth feature, Free Fire, after amassing a wildly popular following...
The Duke of Burgundy | Blu-ray Review
After premiering at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, Peter Strickland's third feature The Duke of Burgundy went on to a limited theatrical release...
High-Rise | 2015 TIFF Review
Closer to the Gods: Cult Author Meets Cult Director in Wheatley’s Latest Dish
Destined to be overlooked as a visually impressive but significant creative failure,...
2015 TIFF: Wheatley, Trapero, Lafosse, Verbeek & Sue Brooks in Platform Comp
The TIFF folks have unveiled their slated dozen features for their spanking brand new competitive section and they've managed to lasso some high profile...
A Cannes Opener: 2016 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
A furious slew of titles in the works would seem to prophesize a robust main competition slate for Cannes 2016. Though our initial list...
Cinema Italiano: 2015 Venice Film Festival Predictions
Now that we’ve come out of the Cannes ether, we can examine several of the names glaringly absent from the lineup that may potentially...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell… 2015 Cannes Film Fest Predictions
With the world’s most prestigious film festival just around the corner, cineastes have been lasciviously salivating about what’s going to show up at Cannes,...
The Duke of Burgundy | Review
The Body and the Whip: Strickland’s Sublime Homage to Erotic Cinema
Beginning like something that should have been called Exploits of a Chambermaid, replete with...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: Picks 100 to 6
While DC and Marvel might already have a lock on several future release dates past the 2015 campaign with the Coen Bros. circling February...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #39. Ben Wheatley’s High Rise
High Rise
Director: Ben Wheatley// Writer: Amy Jump
The fast moving and increasingly prolific Ben Wheatley commands a significant following after only four incredibly well received...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #83. Ben Wheatley’s Freak Shift
Freakshift
Director: Ben Wheatley
Writer: Ben Wheatley
Producers: Claire Jones, Andrew Starke
U.S. Distributor: Right Available
Cast: Unknown
While the frequently working Wheatley announced this would be his next film,...
Tsai Ming-Liang, Cristi Puiu, Albert Serra & Philip Gröning Among Off-beat Offerings in TIFF’s Wavelengths
Programmer Andrea Picard can do no wrong. From the compiled short and medium film offerings (see listing below for huge sampling of renowned world...
Gondry’s Mood Indigo Opens, while Wheatley, Edmands, Heinzerling Pack Karlovy Vary’s 48th Edition
Michel Gondry's Mood Indigo (L’écume des jours) was a surprise no-show in Cannes this year (his film debuted theatrically in France the previous month)...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England
#51. Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England
Gist: Described as a psychedelic horror film, Wheatley’s latest is set during the English civil war, where a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #65. Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England
A Field in England
Director: Ben Wheatley
Writer(s): Wheatley & Amy Jump
Producer(s): Claire Jones, Andrew Starke
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Julian Barratt, Reece Shearsmith, Michael Smiley
In three...
Berberian Sound Studio’s Peter Strickland Officially out of his Cocoon with ‘The Duke of Burgundy’
Hot off what has turned out to be a great 2012 -- his sophomore film, the Locarno & TIFF presented Berberian Sound Studio has...
2013 Sundance Film Fest: Quality offerings from Larrain, Nichols, Wheatley and Polley for Spotlight Program
Sundance announced it's Spotlight program selections today, which consists of plum titles that have enjoyed prestigious premieres at other festivals from the year before....
The ABCs of Death | Review
Sing ‘em With Me: Ambitious Horror Anthology Overreaches Itself
Nearly every anthology film ever made suffers from the same predicament in that there are usually...
