John Leon

John Leon

"I wonder who I will be."

Favorite films

  • Blade Runner
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • The Godfather
  • Chinatown

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  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★½

  • Rabbits

  • Star Wars

    ★★★★★

  • The Thing

    ★★★★★

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  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★½

    This movie almost made me forget why I like Bob Dylan

  • Rabbits

    Rabbits

    "When you finish anything, people want you to then talk about it. And I think it’s almost like a crime. A film or a painting – each thing is its own sort of language and it’s not right to try to say the same thing in words. The words are not there. The language of film, cinema, is the language it was put into, and the English language – it’s not going to translate. It’s going to lose."

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    “Someone…

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  • 8½

    ★★★★★

    “There are so many superfluous things in the world already. No need to add chaos to chaos."

  • City Lights

    City Lights

    ★★★★★

    "Yes, I can see now."

    Monochrome, muted celluloid; with every face that graced it and hand that dealt it departed — nor the application of a single utterance in a time so close, yet distant enough to feel fantasy or foreign — and still endures to invoke laughter, smiles, and tears a century after; is the magic, power, and beauty of cinema, which words can only spoil. No one will ever move with pictures like Charlie again.

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