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The City & The City
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101 Reykjavík
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and urban isolation.
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The City and the City
Carries a strong pull into music through urban isolation and power.
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Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and longing.
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Los Angeles
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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The City and the City
2010s
The City and the City is a 2018 television series from United Kingdom, shaped by Tom Shankland. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United Kingdom. Engages with urban isolation, nature. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
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Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
2000s
PJ Harvey falls in love with New York. Rock at its most romantic and fierce.
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Tekkonkinkreet
2000s
The streets of Treasure Town are said to belong to "The Cats." They know everything that goes on in the city, and no one can stir up trouble without going through them first. In reality, The Cats are a pair of orphan boys called Black and White, who aren’t afraid of anything or anyone. But their rule of the streets...
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The City of Lost Children
1990s
The City of Lost Children is a 1995 fantasy film directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Jeunet and Gilles Adrien, and starring Ron Perlman. An international co-production of companies from France, Germany, and Spain, the film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, Del...
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Television 1990s
At the Threshold of an Era
TVB's millennium-threshold corporate saga — Hong Kong television holding the city through institution, ambition, and generational weight.
Books 2010s
The Lonely City
"You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The Lonely City is a roving cultural history of urban loneliness, centered on the ultimate city: Manhattan, that teeming island of gneiss, concrete, and glass. What...
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Music 1970s
Innervisions
Social consciousness meets sonic innovation. Living for the City and Higher Ground.
Anime 2010s
Durarara!!
In Tokyo's downtown district of Ikebukuro, amidst many strange rumors and warnings of anonymous gangs and dangerous occupants, one urban legend stands out above the rest—the existence of a headless "Black Rider" who is said to be seen driving a jet-black motorcycle through the city streets. Mikado Ryuugamine has alw...
Film 2000s
101 Reykjavík
A slacker in Reykjavík drifts between his mother's couch and the city's bars until a Spanish woman rearranges everything. Kormákur's breakout Icelandic comedy.
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Books 1970s
My City
Xi Xi's experimental Hong Kong novel — the city as sentence, memory, and slightly off-kilter civic humour.