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City Center
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Violent City
Carries a strong pull into television through urban isolation and after-hours.
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Open City
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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Soft City
Carries a strong pull into books through urban isolation and Southern Europe.
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24 City
Carries a strong pull into music through urban isolation and after-hours.
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We Own This City
Carries a strong pull into music through urban isolation and after-hours.
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Television · Strong bridge
The City and the City
2010s
The City and the City is a 2018 television series from United Kingdom, shaped by Tom Shankland. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United Kingdom. Engages with urban isolation, nature. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
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My City
1970s
Xi Xi's experimental Hong Kong novel — the city as sentence, memory, and slightly off-kilter civic humour.
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24 City
2000s
Workers from a shuttered Chengdu factory recall decades of labor and loss. Jia Zhangke blurs documentary and fiction into an elegy for socialist modernity.
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Soft City
1970s
Soft City is the first book written by Jonathan Raban, and published by Hamish Hamilton (UK) and E. P. Dutton & Company (US) in 1974.
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Television 2010s
The Knick
The Knick is an American period medical drama television series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The series follows Dr. John W. Thackery and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City during the early twentieth century. Am...
Books 2000s
The City & The City
An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
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Music 2000s
Grouper / City Center
Film 1990s
The City of Lost Children
The City of Lost Children is a 1995 fantasy film directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Jeunet and Gilles Adrien, and starring Ron Perlman. An international co-production of companies from France, Germany, and Spain, the film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, Del...
Television 2020s
We Own This City
We Own This City is an American crime drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. The miniseries was developed by George Pelecanos and David Simon and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. The six-episode series premiered on HBO on April 25, 2022.
Books 1980s
City of Glass
City of Glass may refer to: