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The City and the City
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The City & The City
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
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The Lonely City
Carries a strong pull into anime through urban isolation and folklore.
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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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Innervisions
Carries a strong pull into film through power and urban isolation.
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Carries a strong pull into books through migration and Southern Europe.
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The City & The City
2000s
An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
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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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Terror in Resonance
2010s
Painted in red, the word "VON" is all that is left behind after a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility in Japan. The government is shattered by their inability to act, and the police are left frantically searching for ways to crack down the perpetrators. The public are clueless—until, six months later, a strange v...
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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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Essays 1980s
The Arcades Project
Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines is a 1982 non-fiction book on video games by the British author Martin Amis. The foreword is written by American filmmaker Steven Spielberg, also an arcade game enthusiast. Writing in The Village Voice, U.S. author...
Television 2010s
The Knick
The Knick is an American period medical drama television series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The series follows Dr. John W. Thackery and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City during the early twentieth century. Am...
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Books 1990s
The Rings of Saturn
A walking tour of coastal Suffolk becomes a meditation on decay, colonial violence, memory, and the entropy of civilization.
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Music 1970s
Innervisions
Social consciousness meets sonic innovation. Living for the City and Higher Ground.
Anime 2000s
Tekkonkinkreet
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...
Film 1990s
Paris Is Burning
Paris Is Burning is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay and transgender communities involved in it.