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Blue Velvet
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The Blue Castle
Carries a strong pull into anime through folklore and identity.
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True Blue
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Blue
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Blue Collar
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Betty Blue
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Blue Eye Samurai
2020s
A mixed-race swordsmith seeks revenge in Edo-period Japan. Animated action as identity story.
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The Blue Castle
1920s
The Blue Castle is a 1926 book by Lucy Maud Montgomery, linked to Canada and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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Blue Lines
1990s
Trip-hop's founding document. Unfinished Sympathy and the Bristol sound.
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Perfect Blue
1990s
A pop idol turned actress loses her grip on reality. Identity, fandom, and psychological horror.
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Blue Period
Japanese anime television series
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Music 1970s
Blue
Confessional songwriting's apex. Vulnerability as art form.
Anime 2010s
Blue Spring Ride
While most young girls make an effort to show off their feminine charms, Futaba Yoshioka deliberately behaves like she wants to repel anyone who might be attracted to her. Ostracized by her female classmates in middle school for being a little too popular with the boys, she desperately strives to avoid a similar sit...
Film 1970s
Blue Collar
Blue Collar is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by Paul Schrader in his directorial debut. Written by Schrader and his brother Leonard, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto. The film is both a critique of union practices and an examination of life in a working-class Rust Belt enclave.
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Music 1950s
Blue Train
Hard bop at its finest. Coltrane's first true statement as a leader.
Anime 2020s
Blue Giant
Blue Giant is a 2023 anime title tied to Yuzuru Tachikawa and Hiromi Uehara and Japan. It keeps the animated field legible through atmosphere, genre range, and exact-title recall.