Bernalillo Trilogy

Watch Bernalillo Trilogy in release order: Llanito (1971), Little Boy (1977) and Willie (1985).

Danny Lyon's trilogy of day-in-the-life documentaries tracing the life of Willie J and the community of Bernalillo he inhabits.

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   Llanito 1971

   Llanito is the first of Lyon’s trio of films shot in and around Bernalillo, New Mexico, and it is also the screen debut of Willie Jaramillo. The twelve-year-old boy acts as a guiding force for Lyon and his audience…

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   Little Boy 1977

   Named for the atomic bomb built in New Mexico and dropped on Hiroshima, this is Lyon’s portrait of late-70s New Mexico – a look beneath the Sunbelt.

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   Willie 1985

   Willie is a realistic film made in Bernalillo, home of Willie Jaramillo and filmmakers Danny and Nancy Weiss Lyon. Defiantly individual and implaccable in the face of authority, Willie is repeatedly thrown into jail…