Fires On The Plain Dual Format Classical Hollywood Beautifully captured on 70mm

Beautifully captured on 70mm

William Holden and Robert Duvall are uniformly good but a speech delivered by Ned Beatty and a scene with Beatrice Straight live long in the memory

A personal appreciation of the Bergman classic by the esteemed writer and broadcaster

An enigmatic and profoundly moving work that merges the worlds of the viewer and of saintly Joan herself into one shared experience of hushed delirium

Carl Davis score

Fires On The Plain Dual Format Classical Hollywood Beautifully captured on 70mm'Fires on the Plain' Director: Shinya Tsukamoto (2014) Japanese English subtitles contains Blu ray & DVD. Includes hour long 'making of', commentary An uncompromising vision of the hell of war. A re make of the 1959 film following desperate Japanese soldiers abandoned in a Philippines island jungle.