Ben Paratian

Ben Paratian

that’s cinema baby

Favorite films

  • Paris, Texas
  • The Apartment
  • Blue Velvet
  • Y Tu Mamá También

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  • Hotel Chevalier

    ★★★★½

  • Stutterer

    ★★★

  • Wings of Desire

    ★★★★★

  • West Side Story

    ★★★★

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  • Wings of Desire

    Wings of Desire

    ★★★★★

    i love that art can make you feel an ocean of feeling without you being able to properly verbalize it.

  • West Side Story

    West Side Story

    ★★★★

    ‘what are we doing pooping around with these dumb broads’ one of the craziest lines put to screen

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

    fantastic film but two minutes before seeing this beauty in 70mm my phone flew out of my pocket in the IFI bathrooms and fell into the depths of the toilet. i reached in and violently fished it out hoping to grab it out of the piss soaked abyss. as my hand entered the toilet bowl the sensors picked up my movement and started flushing. i felt the toilet water smacking up against my hand as i reached in for the phone.…

  • Blue Velvet

    Blue Velvet

    ★★★★★

    i was 15 when my good buddy jack told me in school to watch this film. i went home that evening, sat in the front room and watched this for the first time and i was quite frankly i little scared and confused. since then ive probably watched this 7 times over the years and this viewing experience was one of my most emotional.

    david lynch is such an important artist to me that his death left me completely devastated.…

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