David Beek

David Beek

PhD in hemispheric American cultural studies and comparative literature

Favorite films

  • Blue Velvet
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Amores Perros
  • Bacurau

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  • A Different Man

    ★★★★

  • Pearl

    ★★★½

  • The Headless Woman

    ★★★½

  • Blue Velvet

    ★★★★★

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  • Blue Velvet

    Blue Velvet

    ★★★★★

    If you’re from a small town, went to college, and then returned home only to realize how fucking weird your hometown is, you’ll probably like this movie… For me personally, it’s #1 of all time! 

    “Now it’s dark…”

    R.I.P. David Lynch

  • Punch-Drunk Love

    Punch-Drunk Love

    ★★★★★

    I was 10 years old when this movie came out. (At the time—true story—my parents had just gotten divorced because my dad came out of the closet and soon lost his job as the local mortician in our small town not long after, which meant we had to move out of my childhood home, that which just happened to be a funeral home...) At that age, I was obsessed with movies like Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, so I rented…

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  • Strange Darling

    Strange Darling

    ★★★½

    This movie was not at all what I expected. It plays with slasher genre conventions and employs a nonlinear narrative to keep the viewer guessing until the end. Entertaining to say the very least!

  • Blink Twice

    Blink Twice

    ★★★½

    Kept me intrigued throughout, entertaining but perhaps not mind-blowing, still worth a watch!

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