
Annie Lyons
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2 weeks ago |
letterboxd.com | Jourdain Searles |Mia Lee Vicino |Annie Lyons |Unknown Pleasures
Since his feature debut Pickpocket in 1997, director Jia Zhangke has been steadily making films for more than 25 years, telling deeply human stories about love, loss and the constant, indiscriminate march of time. 2000’s Platform was Zhangke’s first foray into tracking the passage of time, depicting the societal changes within a small city in China from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
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Dec 5, 2024 |
letterboxd.com | Ella Kemp |Brian Formo |Annie Lyons
It was in the seventeenth century that John Donne wrote that no man is an island, and in the twentieth that Wim Wenders seemingly took that famous line of the English poet’s ‘Devotions upon Emergent Occasions’ and built a whole universe around it with Paris, Texas. “Entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main,” Donne’s writing continues. That man, in 1984, is Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton), and the main continent is America.
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Nov 28, 2024 |
letterboxd.com | Annie Lyons |Rafa Sales Ross |Kambole Campbell
You already know the story. Once upon a time, two children got lost in the woods—or were they abandoned?—and searched for home, leaving a trail of white pebbles—or was it candy?—to mark their path. Amid the thickly entwined branches, they encounter a hungry witch but, keeping their wits together, they outsmart their captivator and return home at last. And so on and so forth.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
letterboxd.com | Matt Goldberg |Annie Lyons |Mitchell Beaupre
In a line that has rattled around our collective cultural consciousness for more than twenty years, Nicolas Cage’s blockbuster hero Benjamin Franklin Gates solemnly intones his plan to protect one of America’s most treasured documents. By stealing it. “I’m going to steal the Declaration of Independence,” warns Gates, as he gazes over the legendary document while standing in the National Archives. In that pivotal moment of National Treasure, cinema history was made.
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Oct 29, 2024 |
letterboxd.com | Annie Lyons |Rafa Sales Ross |Mia Lee Vicino |Steve Jobs
Nearly fifteen years on from The Social Network, the film’s final image remains prophetic as ever: in an empty room, Jesse Eisenberg’s Mark Zuckerberg sits alone, endlessly refreshing his browser to see if his ex-girlfriend has accepted his friend request.
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