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The First Day
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30 Days
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Rectify
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and South Asia.
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Third
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Soft City
Carries a strong pull into books through resistance and South Asia.
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The First Step
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Rectify
2010s
Rectify is an American television Southern Gothic drama series exploring the life of a man after he is released from prison after nearly 20 years on death row following a wrongful conviction. It was created by Ray McKinnon and is the first original series from Sundance TV. It stars Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, J. Sm...
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Don Quixote
1600s
A man who reads too many romances rides out as a knight. The first modern novel.
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Third
2000s
Third is the third studio album by the English band Portishead. It was released on 28 April 2008 in the UK by Island Records and a day later in the US by Mercury Records. Portishead's first studio album in eleven years, Third moved away from their earlier trip hop style, incorporating influences such as krautrock, s...
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Pokémon: The First Movie
1990s
Pokémon: The First Movie is a 1998 anime title tied to Kunihiko Yuyama, Shinji Miyazaki, and Hirokazu Tanaka and Japan. It keeps the animated field legible through atmosphere, genre range, and exact-title recall.
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Film 2000s
30 Days
A Lagos woman is told her husband has thirty days to live. Okwo's Nollywood drama — one of the first to cross over to international festivals.
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Essays 1890s
The First Step
The First Step is a 1891 essay or critical text by Leo Tolstoy, linked to a wider international field and Russian. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial context.
Television 2020s
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, or simply Interview with the Vampire, is an American gothic horror television series developed by Rolin Jones for AMC, based on The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, named after the first book. Starring Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac and Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncour...
Books 1990s
Speak
"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk...
Music 1970s
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Ambient 1: Music for Airports is a studio album by the English musician Brian Eno. It was released in February 1979 through E.G. Records and Polydor Records. It was the first Eno album released under the label of ambient music, a genre intended to "induce calm and a space to think" while remaining "as ignorable as i...
Anime 2000s
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
On the precipice of a cataclysmic drought, the Star Readers of the Shin Yogo Empire must devise a plan to avoid widespread famine. It is written in ancient myths that the first emperor, along with eight warriors, slew a water demon to avoid a great drought and save the land that was to become Shin Yogo. If a water d...