Even as Yamazaki recreates several moments and visuals from the 1954 classic, he also riffs on American touchstones like "Jaws" in giving us the most terrifying conception of the radioactive giant since "Shin Godzilla."

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1467615/10-best-action-movies-2023-ranked/

Finding touchstones to connect this story to the rest of the series was pretty crucial, and it required me to do a little psychology on myself.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/knight-terrors-creator-roundtable-interview/

It is a perfect playground for ideas and symbolism, with Western tropes being familiar cultural touchstones that can easily be subverted to get the audience to ponder the more significant questions in life.

Source: https://collider.com/acid-westerns-explanation/

Mr Clerkin said one of his "key touchstones with curating this event has been 'Perspective'."

Source: https://www.bluemountainsgazette.com.au/story/8184382/first-speakers-announced-for-tedxkatoomba/?src=rss

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday opened his state of the union speech in Moscow with familiar touchstones, including ridding the world of Nazism and liberating Ukraine’s Donbas region.

Source: https://www.1310kfka.com/abc-news/world/02/russia-ukraine-live-updates-putin-suspends-key-us-russia-nuclear-treaty/

So, it’s an honor to be entrusted to tell the true story of one of the most astonishing cultural touchstones in the last half-century.”

Source: https://metalinjection.net/at-the-movies/a-lollapalooza-documentary-is-in-the-works

The cinematic touchstones are just as obvious elsewhere in the program, which isn’t necessarily a negative.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/movies/new-directors-new-films-festival.html

These three touchstones of the catholic — and Catholic — imagination are “Longing,” “Paradox” and “Realism.”

Source: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/what-is-the-catholic-imagination