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Comme prévu
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Comme prévu
Carries a strong pull into anime through after-hours and South Asia.
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Come Away with Me
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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A Lover's Discourse
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and after-hours.
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K-On!
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and South Asia.
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A Lover's Discourse
1970s
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments is a 1977 book by Roland Barthes. It contains a list of "fragments", some of which come from literature and some from his own philosophical thought, of a lover's point of view. Barthes calls them "figures"—gestures of the lover at work.
Anime · Strong bridge
Princess Tutu
2000s
In a fairy tale come to life, the clumsy, sweet, and gentle Ahiru seems like an unlikely protagonist. In reality, Ahiru is just as magical as the talking cats and crocodiles that inhabit her town—for Ahiru really is a duck! Transformed by the mysterious Drosselmeyer into a human girl, Ahiru soon learns the reason fo...
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Come and See
1980s
A Belarusian boy witnesses Nazi atrocities. The most harrowing war film ever made.
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Intimacies
2020s
"A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into si...
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We the Animals
Trois garçons tentent de grandir au milieu du chaos, entre crises conjugales et manque d'argent. De père portoricain et de mère blanche, ils sont soumis aux colères comme aux moments de tendresse de leurs parents.
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Music 1950s
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Free jazz's opening salvo. Lonely Woman and the liberation of melody from harmony.
Anime 2000s
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in particular which he holds unshakable faith in: the theory that the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Em...
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Come Away with Me
2005 film
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Music 2000s
Come Away with Me
Jazz-pop that sold 27 million copies. Don't Know Why as perfect late-night comfort.
Anime 2000s
K-On!
A fresh high school year always means much to come, and one of those things is joining a club. Being in a dilemma about which club to join, Yui Hirasawa stumbles upon and applies for the Light Music Club, which she misinterprets to be about playing simple instruments, such as castanets. Unable to play an instrument,...