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Local Hero
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Blackstar
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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New Local Hero
Keeps a workable bridge into film through after-hours and longing.
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Nightcrawler
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Columbus
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Blackstar
2010s
Blackstar is the twenty-sixth and final studio album by the English musician David Bowie. Released on 8 January 2016, Bowie's 69th birthday, the album was recorded in secret in New York City with his longtime co-producer Tony Visconti and a group of local jazz musicians: Donny McCaslin (saxophone), Jason Lindner (pi...
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Beck
2000s
Fourteen-year-old Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka is a dispirited young boy with no goals in life. However, this all changes when Koyuki saves a strange-looking dog named Beck from being harassed by a group of local kids. The dog's owner, 16-year-old Ryuusuke "Ray" Minami, is an emerging guitarist and the former member of a p...
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Nightcrawler
2010s
Nightcrawler is a 2014 American neo-noir black comedy thriller film written and directed by Dan Gilroy in his directorial debut. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as an unhinged stringer who seeks out violent and morbid events late at night in Los Angeles so he can film them and sell the exclusive footage to a local televisi...
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Columbus
2010s
Columbus is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by Kogonada. The film stars John Cho as the son of a renowned architecture scholar who gets stranded in Columbus, Indiana, and strikes up a friendship with a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. Michelle Forbes, Rory Culkin, and Par...
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