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Folklore
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Music Has the Right to Children
Carries a strong pull into film through folklore and after-hours.
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Nevermind
Carries a strong pull into film through folklore and after-hours.
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and South Asia.
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Spirited Away
Carries a strong pull into music through folklore and after-hours.
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The Color Purple
1980s
Letters between two sisters in the rural South. Survival, sisterhood, and spiritual liberation.
Anime · Strong bridge
Akira
1980s
Neo-Tokyo, psychic children, and the apocalypse. The film that brought anime to the world.
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Spirited Away
2000s
A girl enters a spirit world bathhouse. Miyazaki's most complete vision of childhood, greed, and transformation.
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The Myth of Sisyphus
1940s
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Absurdism's manifesto against despair.
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Music 1990s
Nevermind
Smells Like Teen Spirit and the end of the 80s. Grunge's seismic moment.
Anime 1990s
Ghost in the Shell
A cyborg police officer hunts a hacker. Identity, consciousness, and the post-human condition.
Film 1970s
Alien
In space, no one can hear you scream. Science fiction as haunted-house horror.
Music 1990s
Music Has the Right to Children
Nostalgic electronic music that sounds like half-remembered childhood. Hauntology as genre.
Anime 2000s
Monster
A neurosurgeon hunts the psychopath he once saved. 74 episodes of psychological thriller perfection.
Film 1970s
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
A conquistador descends into madness on the Amazon. Herzog and Kinski at their most mythic.