BenMakesTalkies

Filmmaker who has seen Race to Witch Mountain (2009) thirteen times / Below this are my four favorite watches from the past month.

Favorite films

  • The Last Temptation of Christ
  • Birth
  • Man on Fire
  • Exotica

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  • Duck Soup

  • Busy Bodies

  • The Music Box

  • The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal

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  • Duck Soup

    Duck Soup

    JOIN THE ARMY AND SEE THE NAVY.

    Masterpiece, a comedy with a complete disregard for conventional structure. Fireflyism is the political ideology that will resolve the dialectic.

  • The Music Box

    The Music Box

    I just know Chad Stahelski watched this

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  • Twin Peaks: The Return

    Twin Peaks: The Return

    (No I didn’t watch it again) Finally got a chance to really let this work sit with me for a bit so I can right down my thoughts, I will be addressing Twin Peaks as a whole since that is what it is, one massive piece of art that transcends the medium of television. 

    That being said I will be focusing most on The Return since its events are most fresh in my mind. I guess the only way to…

  • The Last Temptation of Christ

    The Last Temptation of Christ

    Paul Schrader be like “what if God was God’s loneliest man.”

    This unsurprisingly improves a lot on a rewatch. It is a film that is spiritually close to the gospels even where it differs a lot in a literal sense. I think Schrader is trying to upset modern audiences with the figure of Jesus in a way to make them understand what it must have felt like to encounter him in his day and age. The only way you can…