benoit vanasse

Movie aficionado & Baseball fan

[benoit vanasse @vanasbj]

#JuneRankingChallenge2026
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June 7 Soldier of Orange

This is one of his great moral traps: Resistance ≠ purity.
Heroism is messy, compromised, and often accidental

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@BrambleJim @ironicteachings @omacolt I like this film, good choice!

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#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge — June
@midgetmoxie

Jun 8 A ship or boat at sea

The Legend of 1900 (1998) It follows Tim Roth as a baby found on a ship. Raised aboard, he never sets foot on land and becomes a genius pianist.

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#JuneMovieChallenge
@omacolt

Jun 8 Dystopian

Children of Men (2006) No children have been born, and humanity faces extinction. The United Kingdom has become a militarized, xenophobic police state, rounding up refugees.

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#Bales2026FilmChallenge
@ironicteachings

Jun 8 Telling stories around a campfire

Easy Rider (1969) "You know, this used to be a hell of a good country."

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@JanuaryMovie A victory for sex hunter in the city?

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#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge — June
@midgetmoxie

Jun 7 Liam Neeson (not Qui-Gon/Schindler)

Rob Roy (1995) Rob Roy tries to help his small town by borrowing money from the local nobility. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle.

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#JuneMovieChallenge
@omacolt

Jun 7 Disco

Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.

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#Bales2026FilmChallenge
@ironicteachings

Jun 7 Golden sunset energy

Days of Heaven (1978) a Chicago steelworker accidentally kills his supervisor, and flees with his girlfriend to the Texas panhandle, where they find work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

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@RushmoreLists “Strange Fruit” – Billie Holiday

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#JuneRankingChallenge2026
@stonegasman

June 5 Katie Tippel

This is Verhoeven flirting with social realism and class satire. B tier for me

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#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge — June
@midgetmoxie

Jun Engineers

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the River Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma.

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#JuneMovieChallenge
@omacolt

Jun 6 Something is invaded

The Desperate Hours (1955)

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they’re holding hostage after a home invasion.

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#Bales2026FilmChallenge
@ironicteachings

Jun 6 Set somewhere you’d vacation immediately

La Piscine (1969) Jean-Paul and Marianne drift through a languid, sun-soaked summer, until Marianne invites her former lover and his striking teenage daughter to join them for a few days.

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#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge — June
@midgetmoxie

Jun 5 Father–son/daughter

Graduation (2016). It explores the moral compromises a father makes to secure his daughter's future after she is assaulted just before her final exams.

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#JuneMovieChallenge
@omacolt

Jun 5 Assassination attempt

I for Icarus (1979) Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee’s final findings.

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#Bales2026FilmChallenge
@ironicteachings

Jun 5 Oddball group of friends

Sneakers (1992) A security pro finds his past returning to haunt him when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.

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#JuneRankingChallenge2026
@stonegasman

June 3 Turkish Delight
Raw, abrasive, anti-romantic; very much “tear down the myth of love.”

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#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge — June
@midgetmoxie

Jun 4 Angelina Jolie (not Maleficent/Lara Croft)

Couture (2025) In the frenzy of Fashion Week, three women cross paths in Paris, grappling with the world’s tragedies and the questions of their lives