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S.O.R.O.
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The Score
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.

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Heaven or Las Vegas
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Chloé Zhao's Oscar Win: Moment or Movement?
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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12:08 East of Bucharest
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
Television
Interview with the Vampire
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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Either/Or
1st published work of S. Kierkegaard (pen name Victor Eremita) in 2 volumes in 1843; outlines a theory of human existence, marked by the distinction between a hedonistic, aesthetic mode of life and the ethical life predicated upon commitment
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Music · Strong bridge
The Score
1990s
Killing Me Softly and Ready or Not. Hip-hop's most soulful album, bridging genres effortlessly.
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12:08 East of Bucharest
2000s
A small-town TV host asks whether his city actually revolted during the 1989 revolution — or just showed up after it was over. Porumboiu's deadpan debut.
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Essays · Strong bridge
Chloé Zhao's Oscar Win: Moment or Movement?
2021 video essay about female directors, acceptable femininity and the Oscars
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Music 1990s
Heaven or Las Vegas
Elizabeth Fraser's voice as instrument. Dream pop at its most luminous and alien.
Film 1930s
L’Age d’Or
L’Age d’Or is a 1930 film from France, associated with Luis Buñuel. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
Film 1940s
The Third Man
A pulp writer arrives in postwar Vienna to find his friend dead — or so he's told. Carol Reed's noir masterwork, with Orson Welles in the shadows.
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Music 2000s
O.S.T.
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Music 2000s
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