- LOS ANGELES — Hollywood star and filmmaker Ben Affleck has shared memories
about his father Timothy as he talked about the first and the only time he saw
his dad cry.
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- In his visit to the Criterion Closet, Affleck, selected
some of the company’s cinematic offerings he considers favourites. David
Lynch’s 1980 movie The Elephant Man, he recalled, “is the first and only time I
ever saw my father cry.”
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- Lynch’s hit film, which stars John Hurt as a deformed man
and Anthony Hopkins as a doctor treating him, is a “movie about what it means
to be a human being. And it's heartbreaking and beautiful and... it's tied to a
very personal memory for me,” said Affleck, reports people.com.
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- Appearing to get emotional, the Oscar winner concluded:
“That's probably a good note to end on.”
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- Timothy, who shares sons Ben and Casey Affleck with
ex-wife Christine Anne "Chris" Boldt, separated from her and moved
from their Massachusetts home to California when the “Good Will Hunting” star
was 12.
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- In 2020, Ben shared that his father, a former janitor,
had marked 30 years of sobriety at the time.
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- He had “a tremendous amount of respect for what that
takes and what that means," Affleck said of his father.
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- "Part of being an adult is learning that your
parents are just people. They’re not perfect. They were just doing their best.
As a child, we expect perfection out of our parents.”
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- Affleck called Criterion’s renowned closet, owned and
stocked by the home video distributor, “my idea of heaven.”
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- In addition to The Elephant Man, his selections of favorites
to take home included 1990’s Miller’s Crossing, 1991’s The Silence of the
Lambs, 2000’s Traffic and two movies he starred in: 1993’s Dazed and Confused
and 1998’s Armageddon.
