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Nostalgia for the Light
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Blonde
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and after-hours.
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Channel Orange
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and memory.
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The Future of Nostalgia
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.
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Love Letter
Carries a strong pull into music through memory and longing.
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Nostalghia
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Blonde
2010s
R&B deconstructed. Nostalgia, queerness, and the texture of memory rendered in minimalist soul.
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Love Letter
1990s
Snow, memory, and tender recollection make it a tempting corridor neighbor that may prove too soft and nostalgic.
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The Future of Nostalgia
2000s
"Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Do we even know what we are nostalgic for?". "Combining philosophical essay, aesthetic analysis and personal memoir, Boym explores the spaces of collective nosta...
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Music Has the Right to Children
1990s
Nostalgic electronic music that sounds like half-remembered childhood. Hauntology as genre.
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Nostalghia
Nostalghia is a 1983 drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. Tarkovsky co-wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra.
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Music 2010s
Channel Orange
Nostalgia, heartbreak, and Pyramids. R&B's most inventive album since D'Angelo.
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Film 1980s
Cinema Paradiso
A filmmaker recalls his childhood friendship with a projectionist. Nostalgia and cinephilia.
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Music 2010s
The Suburbs
Growing up in sprawl. Nostalgia, alienation, and the roads that lead nowhere and everywhere.