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Ben Affleck<\/a> is sharing a cherished reminiscence about his father Timothy<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n In his go to to the Criterion Closet<\/a>, Affleck, 52, perused and chosen<\/a> a few of the firm\u2019s cinematic choices he considers favorites. David Lynch<\/a>\u2019s 1980 film The Elephant Man<\/em>, he recalled, \u201cis the first and only time I ever saw my father cry.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Lynch\u2019s hit movie, which stars John Hurt as a deformed man and Anthony Hopkins as a physician treating him, is a \u201cmovie about what it means to be a human being,\u201d Affleck continued. \u201cAnd it’s heartbreaking and beautiful and… it’s tied to a very personal memory for me.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Appearing to get emotional as he added the film to his bag, the Oscar winner concluded, \u201cThat’s probably a good note to end on.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Stefan \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n <\/span> Timothy, who shares sons Ben and Casey<\/a> with ex-wife Christine Anne “Chris” Boldt, separated from her and moved from their Massachusetts residence to California when Ben was 12.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n The Accountant 2<\/em><\/a> star informed PEOPLE<\/a> in 2020 that his father, a former janitor, had marked 30 years of sobriety on the time.\n<\/p>\n He had \u201ca tremendous amount of respect for what that takes and what that means,” Affleck said of his father. “Part of being an adult is learning that your parents are just people. They\u2019re not perfect. They were just doing their best. As a child, we expect perfection out of our parents.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Never miss a narrative \u2014 join PEOPLE’s free day by day publication<\/a> to remain up-to-date on one of the best of what PEOPLE has to supply\u200b\u200b, from superstar information to driving human curiosity tales.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n Affleck referred to as Criterion\u2019s famend closet, owned and stocked by the house video distributor, \u201cmy idea of heaven.\u201d In addition to The Elephant Man<\/em>, his alternatives of favorites to take residence included 1990\u2019s Miller\u2019s Crossing<\/em>, 1991\u2019s The Silence of the Lambs<\/em>, 2000\u2019s Traffic<\/em> and two films he starred in: 1993\u2019s Dazed and Confused<\/a><\/em> and 1998\u2019s Armageddon<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Michael Loccisano\/Getty<\/p>\n <\/span> He additionally hailed Jean Renoir’s 1939 basic The Rules of the Game<\/em> for having his \u201cfavorite line from all of cinema\u201d \u2014 \u201cEveryone has their reasons\u201d \u2014 which he quipped he \u201cstole\u201d for his 2007 film Gone Baby Gone<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n Affleck additionally praised Denzel Washington<\/a>\u2019s work in Spike Lee\u2019s 1992 biopic Malcolm X.<\/em> \u201cThere is not a performance I can think of that\u2019s better than this,” he said. “I remember where I was when I watched the movie, and I remember when I walked out, I thought, \u2018I want to be a better man.\u2019 \u201d\n<\/p>\n Affleck produces and stars with Jon Bernthal in director Gavin O’Connor and author Bill Dubuque’s The Accountant 2<\/em>, in theaters now. Among his upcoming initiatives are Animals<\/em> costarring Gillian Anderson<\/a> and RIP<\/em><\/a> alongside longtime collaborator Matt Damon<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Ben Affleck visited the Criterion Collection\u2019s closet to select his favourite films Among them was David Lynch\u2019s The Elephant Man, which the actor-filmmaker mentioned was \u201ctied to a very personal memory\u201d The film marked \u201cthe first and only time\u201d Ben noticed his father, Timothy Affleck, cry Ben Affleck is sharing a cherished reminiscence about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3761,3760,5265,1432,231,2255,2257],"class_list":{"0":"post-140407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-affleck","9":"tag-ben","10":"tag-cry","11":"tag-dad","12":"tag-reveals","13":"tag-time","14":"tag-timothy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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