Ben Thomas

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four faves are as fluctuating as my moods 🫡

Favorite films

  • Still Walking
  • What Time Is It There?
  • Where Is the Friend's House?
  • News from Home

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  • Turtles Can Fly

  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn

  • One More Time with Feeling

    ★★★★★

  • Night on Earth

    ★★★★★

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  • Y Tu Mamá También

    Y Tu Mamá También

    ★★★★★

    Double bill this with Mr Bean's Holiday: films about people who just want to get to the beach

  • Cléo from 5 to 7

    Cléo from 5 to 7

    ★★★★★

    Each shot was so beautifully crafted that I kept forgetting to read the subtitles - strong before, before sunrise vibes

    Waiting, impatience, tapping, travelling, reading, talking, cutting. The human desire to manipulate time falls second only to the human desire to manipulate health - perhaps the two are inextricable.

    Cleo, as she suspects, is dying of cancer. She is not dragged into existential crisis so much as ushered into existential contemplation. The gaze, the glory, the gratitude tastes differently when…

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  • Night on Earth

    Night on Earth

    ★★★★★

    yeah, this rules

  • Still Walking

    Still Walking

    ★★★★★

    might be the best I've seen, maybe, perhaps

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    It delivers! Maybe controversially would have been fine with less orlok, the voice (and perhaps the look) doesn't quite have the desired effect when compared with something like Dune where the choice of voice rips your insides out. Orlok's threat and lingering, how other's interpret his coming (or not), is the most terrifying part. This being said, when that naked threat is combined with expert production design, chilling locales, looks and convulsions, strong performances and themes, then we have a…

  • The Gleaners and I

    The Gleaners and I

    we need agnès to come back and salvage cinema 🫶