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Small Star Seminar
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Jamaica Inn
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Small Star Seminar
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Les Revenants
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and migration.
Television
The Returned
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and folklore.
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Television · Strong bridge
Twin Peaks
1990s
Who killed Laura Palmer? Small-town America as surrealist nightmare.
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The God of Small Things
1990s
Twins in Kerala, caste, forbidden love, and the small things that destroy. Language as architecture.
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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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Better Call Saul
2010s
A small-time lawyer becomes a criminal's lawyer. Character study as slow-burn tragedy.
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Books 2000s
Small Island
Jamaican immigrants in postwar London. Empire's debts collected at the doorstep of the mother country.
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Music 2010s
Jamaica Inn
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Film 2000s
Still Walking
A family gathers for the anniversary of a son's death. Small cruelties and unspoken love.
Television 2010s
Les Revenants
The dead return to a small Alpine town. Not horror but atmosphere, grief, and the unfinished weight of the past.
Books 1930s
The Street of Crocodiles
This a magical book of short stories set in a small town in Poland during the period between the two World Wars. The writer, Bruno Schulz, wrote only two books in his lifetime but the two are so rich in vision that they contain a whole world. There are wonderful stories of childhood and how a child's imagination tra...
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Film 1990s
The Sweet Hereafter
A school bus accident in a small town. A lawyer arrives, and grief becomes litigation. Egoyan's study of communal trauma and exploitation.