"It's a love story, really," says Peter Strickland when we caught up with him in London late last year and asked him to tell us about his latest film, The Duke of Burgundy (2014), a wonderfully kinky exploration of a sadomasochistic relationship. "It's a domestic drama that has fallen out of the hands of a sleazier genre, perhaps. But really, it's circling these ideas of consent, compromise and coercion and observing two people having very different intimate needs and is it possible to make it work." It's a more intimate beast than his previous two works, Katalin Varga (2009) and Berberian Sound Studio (2012), and it riffs on the sexploitation films of the seventies. Burgundy began life as a commission from Andy Stark and Pete Tombs of Rook Films. They wanted him to helm a remake of Jess Franco's Lorna the Exorcist (1974).
- 2/20/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
I first encountered the work of Filipino action hero and tiny man-child Weng Weng at this very festival in 2007. Andy Stark and Pete Tombs ran an absolutely bonkers reel of money shots from their Mondo Macabro release label in front of a Pakistani slasher film they produced that was playing at Fantasia that year. There was more than enough "Wtf" splashed on screen for those wild 16 minutes, but the clips featuring a 2 foot 9 inch James Bond sporting a jet pack, or jumping out of high rise and floating down with just an umbrella, was a stand out. This was the same year that The Chuds' Weng Weng Rap video popped up on a nascent Youtube, also featuring loads of clips from For Y'ur Height Only and The...
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- 7/28/2014
- Screen Anarchy
One of Britain's best young film directors on the music, books and art currently catching his eye
Considered by many critics to be one of Britain's most significant young directors, Essex-born Ben Wheatley's career began when his short films went viral. After directing comedy series Modern Toss for Channel 4, he wrote, produced and directed his first feature film, Down Terrace (2009), shot it in eight days, and won numerous awards. Following his horror film Kill List (2011), Wheatley directed Sightseers (2012), a dark comedy about a couple on a caravan trip, which enjoyed international critical acclaim. His fourth film, A Field in England, will be released this summer.
Technology: Spotify
I use Spotify tons, it's totally opened my mind to music. I've always thought that music was expensive; back in the days of CDs I'd buy maybe one a year and feel very resentful about it. But now, through the wonders of Spotify,...
Considered by many critics to be one of Britain's most significant young directors, Essex-born Ben Wheatley's career began when his short films went viral. After directing comedy series Modern Toss for Channel 4, he wrote, produced and directed his first feature film, Down Terrace (2009), shot it in eight days, and won numerous awards. Following his horror film Kill List (2011), Wheatley directed Sightseers (2012), a dark comedy about a couple on a caravan trip, which enjoyed international critical acclaim. His fourth film, A Field in England, will be released this summer.
Technology: Spotify
I use Spotify tons, it's totally opened my mind to music. I've always thought that music was expensive; back in the days of CDs I'd buy maybe one a year and feel very resentful about it. But now, through the wonders of Spotify,...
- 3/24/2013
- by Corinne Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
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