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Heartbreaks
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Channel Orange
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and memory.
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For Emma, Forever Ago
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and after-hours.
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Heartbeats
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and memory.
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5 Centimeters Per Second
Carries a strong pull into music through longing and South Asia.
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Music · Strong bridge
Channel Orange
2010s
Nostalgia, heartbreak, and Pyramids. R&B's most inventive album since D'Angelo.
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Steins;Gate
2010s
A self-proclaimed mad scientist discovers time travel via microwave. Paradoxes and heartbreak.
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Heartbeats
2010s
Heartbeats is a 2010 film from Canada, associated with Xavier Dolan. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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For Emma, Forever Ago
2000s
Recorded in a Wisconsin cabin after heartbreak. Falsetto grief in the snow.
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5 Centimeters Per Second
Three chapters of distance — physical, emotional, temporal — between two people who loved each other as children. Shinkai's delicate heartbreak in watercolor light.
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Brokenhearted
1967 film by Park Sang-ho
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Music 1990s
69 Love Songs
Stephin Merritt writes sixty-nine songs about love. Encyclopedic wit and heartbreak.
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Music 2010s
IGOR
A concept album about unrequited love. Hip-hop, soul, and synth-pop as heartbreak opera.