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Like a Virgin
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Like a Virgin
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Like a Prayer
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Blue Spring Ride
Carries a strong pull into music through power and South Asia.
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Siddhartha
1920s
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.
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March Comes in Like a Lion
2010s
A teenage shogi prodigy battles loneliness and depression. Found family and quiet resilience.
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Court
2010s
A folk singer is accused of inciting suicide. India's judicial system observed with Kafka-like precision.
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Like a Prayer
1980s
Like a Prayer is a 1989 album associated with Madonna and Sire. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Anime 2010s
Blue Spring Ride
While most young girls make an effort to show off their feminine charms, Futaba Yoshioka deliberately behaves like she wants to repel anyone who might be attracted to her. Ostracized by her female classmates in middle school for being a little too popular with the boys, she desperately strives to avoid a similar sit...
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Film 2010s
Asako I & II
A woman meets a man who looks exactly like her vanished lover. Doubles and desire.
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Music 1960s
Highway 61 Revisited
Like a Rolling Stone and Desolation Row. Dylan goes electric and rewrites the rules of rock.
Anime 2000s
Princess Tutu
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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Music 2000s
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Four movements of orchestral post-rock. The apocalypse rendered beautiful.