BenDavid Grabinski
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1,564 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
BenDavid Grabinski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that
That's you know, just another way that his stuff feels varied and also like re repetition of themes is working with the same people and kind of working through the same demons and stuff.
mean, I i I'm pretty obsessed with it because I think there's a real like.
there's two kind of sliding doors moments with his career.
And you look at, so after Bad Lieutenant, he gets brought to Warner Brothers to make body snatchers, which I think is
maybe the most underrated genre movie of the nineties.
Um, I think it is fucking beautiful.
Cause like his career for a little bit is tied to the same thing with Boyan Bozelli.
So that's a guy who shot China Girl, King of New York.
And Body Snatchers, which I think are all gorgeous movies.
Um, but Body Snatchers is such
To me it's one of the most interesting
Like scale-ups from a director ever going from like his autour smaller stuff, he's doing like five, six million dollar movies to making, you know, a gigantic undertaking.
Like, you know, it's the thing I love about body snatchers is you get to see him like blow shit up and have huge sets and scale and tons of extras.
And it is so well executed.
But because
As he gets into in his book, you know, it tested like a forty six out of a hundred and the studio hated it.
Um
He I think he just got so burned by the experience.
And also th they said he said in the book there's like a memo saying that Warner Brothers had like no more New York autours.
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