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The Old Man and the Sea
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18 Years Old and Rising
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Top of the Lake
Carries a strong pull into books through urban isolation and South Asia.
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Tender Is the Night
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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DMG
Keeps a workable bridge into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Future of Nostalgia
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and identity.
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Top of the Lake
2010s
A detective investigates a pregnant 12-year-old's disappearance in the New Zealand wilderness.
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Tender Is the Night
2010s
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Welcome to the N.H.K.
2000s
Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in particular which he holds unshakable faith in: the theory that the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Em...
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The 40-Year-Old Virgin
2000s
A man reveals he's never had sex and his coworkers mount an intervention. Apatow's breakout comedy with more heart than its premise suggests.
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Essays 2000s
The Future of Nostalgia
"Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Do we even know what we are nostalgic for?". "Combining philosophical essay, aesthetic analysis and personal memoir, Boym explores the spaces of collective nosta...
Books 1960s
The Old Capital
Seasonal beauty, doubled identity, and formal distance open the corridor outward without loosening it.
Anime 2000s
Haibane Renmei
Born from a cocoon in the village of Old Home, a young Haibane—a being with a halo and small gray wings—awakens to a world she does not understand without memories of her past. Named Rakka for the dream of falling she had while inside the cocoon, she soon becomes accustomed to life in the strange town. However, ther...
Film 2010s
18 Years Old and Rising
18 Years Old and Rising is a 2011 film from France, associated with Frédéric Louf. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
Books 2000s
The Line of Beauty
It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby--whom Nick had idolized at Oxford--and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions...
Anime 2010s
Banana Fish
Aslan Jade Callenreese, known as Ash Lynx, was a runaway picked off the streets of New York City and raised by the infamous godfather of the mafia, Dino Golzine. Now 17 years old and the boss of his own gang, Ash begins investigating the mysterious "Banana Fish"—the same two words his older brother, Griffin, has mut...