We watched Ben Wheatley's A Field in England on Saturday night. I didn't know what to expect so it wouldn't be right to say I was disappointed. Still, I did find it pretentious and actually in places rather boring, though the fact I fell asleep in the middle of it might be attributable to the early effects of the stomach bug that kept me in bed for most of Sunday. The plot is minimal and incoherent, the mood is something like an attempt at a 17th Century Sergio Leone spaghetti western and well, that's it. One of those films where there is less to it than meets the eye. Much less.
What I’ve been reading
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Owen Hatherley, Militant Modernism. A very good short book, defending
“left wing modernism,” a much maligned target on the right these days.
Hatherley ...
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