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Before the Rain
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A Tale for the Time Being
Carries a strong pull into anime through migration and folklore.
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The Hour of the Star
Carries a strong pull into essays through migration and identity.
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The Black Album
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.
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The Bends
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Society of the Spectacle
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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The Shield
2000s
A corrupt LAPD detective navigates crime and consequence. The anti-hero before the wave.
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A Tale for the Time Being
2010s
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist...
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The Bends
1990s
Radiohead before the reinventions. Guitar-driven British rock with emotional depth.
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Honey and Clover
2000s
Back from his journey across Japan, Yuuta Takemoto reminisces about his college life so far. He has matured significantly since his second year and is motivated to move forward. Feeling more confident than ever before, he finally confesses to Hagumi Hanamoto, the girl he has been in love with since their first encou...
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Essays 1960s
The Society of the Spectacle
All that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. Media criticism before the internet.
Television 2000s
Wonderfalls
Wonderfalls is an American fantasy comedy drama television series created by Todd Holland and Bryan Fuller. The series premiered on Fox on March 12, 2004, and only four episodes were aired before Fox canceled the show in April 2004 due to low ratings. The remaining nine episodes were later aired on Canadian network...
Books 1970s
The Hour of the Star
The Hour of the Star is a novel by Clarice Lispector published in 1977, shortly before the author's death. In 1985, the novel was adapted by Suzana Amaral into a film of the same name, which won the Silver Bear for Best Actress in the 36th Berlin International Film Festival of 1986. It has been translated into Engli...
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Music 1990s
The Source
The blues as it was before it crossed the Atlantic. Malian guitar as the root of everything.
Anime 2010s
Mawaru Penguindrum
For the Takakura family, destiny is an ever-spinning wheel, pointing passionately in their direction with equal tides of joy and sorrow before ticking on to the next wishmaker. With their parents gone, twin brothers Kanba and Shouma live alone with their beloved little sister Himari, whose poor health cannot decline...
Film 2000s
Coco Before Chanel
Coco Before Chanel is a 2009 film from France and Belgium, associated with Anne Fontaine. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.