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Empire of Signs
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Empire: Music from “False Imposition”
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Empire: Music from “Dangerous Bonds”
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Empire of Signs
Carries a strong pull into books through after-hours and Western Europe.
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Succession
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and Western Europe.
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Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and identity.
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Succession
2010s
A media dynasty's children compete for their father's empire. Power, family, and self-destruction.
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Waiting for the Barbarians
1980s
A magistrate on the frontier confronts the Empire's brutality. Colonialism as moral parable.
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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
1990s
After narrowly escaping Wei Zhuang's assassins, Jing Tianming, Ge Nie, and their allies seek refuge in Mechanical City, the Mohist School's impregnable stronghold hidden deep in the mountains. Protected by hundreds of traps and mechanical beasts, the fortress remains one of the few places untouched by the Qin Empire...
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Defence of Sevastopol
1910s
Defence of Sevastopol is a 1911 film from Russian Empire, associated with Aleksandr Khanzhonkov and Vasily Goncharov. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare meta...
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Books 2000s
Small Island
Jamaican immigrants in postwar London. Empire's debts collected at the doorstep of the mother country.
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Music 2010s
Empire: Music from “Dangerous Bonds”
Anime 2000s
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
On the precipice of a cataclysmic drought, the Star Readers of the Shin Yogo Empire must devise a plan to avoid widespread famine. It is written in ancient myths that the first emperor, along with eight warriors, slew a water demon to avoid a great drought and save the land that was to become Shin Yogo. If a water d...
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Music 2010s
Empire: Music from “False Imposition”
Anime 2010s
Colorful
Two horny college slackers and a beautiful professor. A frustrated TV reporter. A sexy track star and her tempted coach. And a high school girlzilla that’s the size of the Empire State building. Colorful! contains over 50 vignettes of men, women, and the pursuit of… well, you’ll just have to see. From hotties on sub...
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Music 2010s
Come Away With Me