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The Pearl
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The Miracle
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Light Years
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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The City of Lost Children
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Wire
2000s
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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The Line of Beauty
2000s
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...
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
2000s
Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 film from United Kingdom and Luxembourg, associated with Peter Webber. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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The Miracle
1980s
The Miracle is a 1989 album associated with Queen and Parlophone. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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The City of Lost Children
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...
Music 2000s
Light Years
Light Years is a 2000 album associated with Kylie Minogue and Parlophone. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
Film 2010s
The Wild Pear Tree
The Wild Pear Tree is a 2018 film from Turkey and France, associated with Nuri Bilge Ceylan. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
Music 2000s
Fever
Fever is a 2001 album associated with Kylie Minogue and Parlophone. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.