benoit vanasse

Movie aficionado & Baseball fan

[benoit vanasse @vanasbj]

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Nov 12 A movie about a revolution or rebellion

The Battle of Algiers (1966) A gripping, formally inventive account of urban resistance and colonial power.

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Nov 12 Immigrants

La Haine (1995) A volatile, formally striking portrait of alienation and racial tension in the Paris suburbs.

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Nov 12 Journalism film

Ace in the Hole (1951) A bitter, sharp-edged critique of media ambition and public spectacle.

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@BrambleJim @ihateclaims @omacolt Such a frightening scene

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Nov 11 A movie that shows a hostile species

Alien (1979) A claustrophobic, beautifully designed horror film built around a very hostile creature.

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Nov 11 A car or motorcycle jump in a movie

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) The barrel-roll car jump across a river in Thailand, executed with a specially built ramp and computer-calculated precision in one take with real physics.

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Nov 11: Political Thriller

Z (1969) A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.

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@TheCinesthetic The radiological technologist who assisted with Regan's cerebral angiography in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist was Paul Bateson, a real-life medical worker later convicted of murder

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@BrambleJim @ihateclaims Thanks James

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Nov 10 Misidentification

Being There (1979) Chance, a slow-witted gardener, is forced onto the streets after his employer dies, knowing the world only through television.

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Nov 10 Court Case

Anatomy of a Fall (2023) A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

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Nov 10 A member of the US Marines in a movie

The Last Detail (1973) Hal Ashby’s raw, humane road movie follows two Navy sailors escorting a young Marine.

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#Bales2026FilmChallenge #FilmTwitter 10 November | Mistaken Identity or Romantic Comedy | remember the Wild Card option

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@stonegasman Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck directed both of these

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Nov 9 A character with a facial transformation

Eyes Without a Face (1960) An eerie French horror film about reconstructive surgery, identity, and obsession.

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Nov 9 Chess in a movie

Night Moves (1975) Hackman stars as a private investigator whose search for a missing girl leads him into a chess game where he can't see the checkmate.

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Nov 9 Heist film

Le Cercle Rouge (1970) A spare crime thriller about three men who team up to rob a Paris jewelry store. True to his ascetic style, Melville turns on the precision of each gesture and the inevitability of fate.

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Nov 8 A movie about refugees

Dheepan (2015) Jacques Audiard’s tense, intimate drama follows a family fleeing Sri Lanka and trying to start over in France.

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Nov 8 Author

Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981) Based on Bukowski's novel "Erections, Ejaculations and General Tales of Ordinary Madness," stars Ben Gazzara as a poet exploring L.A.'s seedy depths and dealing with the possibility of love.

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@stonegasman @Hitchliveson @JanuaryMovie @MTGraveStudio @PoorOldRoloTony @ILoveToTalkFilm @krazykeithrules @ihateclaims @HorrorPaperback @Anne2ZeReturn @GidgitVonLaRue I love this film