Mia Lee Vicino
West Coast Editor at Letterboxd
west coast editor @letterboxd / member @filmindependent / screwball rom-com + body horror + John Cassavetes scholar
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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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3 weeks ago |
letterboxd.com | Brandon Streussnig |Marya E. Gates |Mia Lee Vicino |Brute Force
Smothering silence. A close-up of a man’s face, sweat pouring down its craggy exterior. He reaches out, another man hands him a tool. Zoom out. We see a safe. The tool is being used to crack it open. Inside the safe hides a better life. Or at least that’s what these men have told themselves. They only need to push a little harder and retrieve it. If you’ve seen a heist picture, you know these beats well.
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4 weeks ago |
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Mia Lee Vicino
The Josh Hartnett renaissance is in full swing, and we’re all the better for it. The past few years have seen a major surge for the star who broke out at the turn of the century across horror hits (Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, The Faculty), emotionally packed teen dramas (The Virgin Suicides, O) and major blockbusters (Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down).
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4 weeks ago |
letterboxd.com | Öykü Sofuoğlu |Mia Lee Vicino |Dominic Corry |La Land
“I wanted to make people cry. […] And I succeeded! I was pleased.” This is how Jacques Demy describes his Palme d’Or-winning movie musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, in a making-of documentary interview he gave to the BBC in 1972.
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1 month ago |
letterboxd.com | Mia Lee Vicino |Isaac Feldberg |Katie Rife
“You’ve made a career out of bodies,” a character observes of Karsh (Vincent Cassel), the protagonist of David Cronenberg’s deeply personal genre-bender, The Shrouds. In addition to their chosen jobs (Karsh was a producer of industrial videos before turning his focus to cemetery technology), he and his creator share many similarities.
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moderating a post-screening Q&A of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) with director JOE WRIGHT (!!!) this Saturday, April 19—6:30pm at AMC Century City 💘 topics will include the hand flex, Tom Hollander, and more 🥔 tix: https://t.co/YhNhbHhVrA https://t.co/OoSQxJl9Jv
