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Ambitions
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
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The Overstory
Carries a strong pull into television through power and migration.
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Electric Ladyland
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Twin Peaks: The Return
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and power.
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Barry
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
1980s
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate jour...
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Aquemini
1990s
Atlanta hip-hop's most ambitious album. Southern funk, space, and lyrical virtuosity.
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Baccano!
2000s
During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixi...
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Inception
2010s
A thief who steals secrets through dream infiltration takes one last job: planting an idea. Nolan's layered heist redefined blockbuster ambition.
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Peaky Blinders
A Birmingham gang rises after WWI. Ambition, trauma, and razor-blade caps.
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Books 2010s
The Overstory
Nine Americans whose lives are entangled with trees. Ecological fiction at its most ambitious.
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Music 2010s
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Maximalist hip-hop as baroque opera. Excess, ambition, and the abyss.
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Film 1960s
2001: A Space Odyssey
From apes to stargate. Cinema's most ambitious vision of human evolution and cosmic mystery.
Television 2010s
Twin Peaks: The Return
18 hours of pure Lynchian television. The most ambitious limited series ever broadcast.
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Music 1960s
Electric Ladyland
Hendrix's most ambitious studio work. Blues, psychedelia, and the electric guitar reimagined.