Philip Best

Favorite films

  • Crows
  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  • Parsifal
  • Shoah

All
  • Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

    ★★

  • Whirlpool

    ★★★★★

  • Ma mère

    ★★

  • Manhunter

    ★★★★★

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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

1998

★★ Watched

Very British, very earnest, very Lottery-funded, entirely bloody predictable. I think l’d end it all if I had to go to the Colony Room every night as well. Plus Derek Jacobi looks more like Benny Hill than Francis Bacon.

Whirlpool

1970

★★★★★ Watched

Exceedingly fucked up ending(s)

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Manhunter

1986

★★★★★ Watched

Director’s cut with commentary. Best locations and cinematography (high modernism not basement gothic), Lektor is brutal (not camp), best killer, best murders, best lair, best soundtrack, best pre-credits sequence and THAT tiger scene. Unmatched.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992

★★★★★ 2

There should be more movies like this, but there won't be.

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