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The Piano
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Music for 18 Musicians
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Köln Concert
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Discipline and Punish
Carries a strong pull into music through power and South Asia.
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The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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The Wire
Carries a strong pull into anime through power and urban isolation.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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The Köln Concert
1970s
Solo piano improvisation that became the best-selling piano album in history.
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Kids on the Slope
2010s
Introverted classical pianist and top student Kaoru Nishimi has just arrived in Kyushu for his first year of high school. Having constantly moved from place to place since his childhood, he abandons all hope of fitting in, preparing himself for another lonely, meaningless year. That is, until he encounters the notor...
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Discipline and Punish
1970s
From public execution to the panopticon. Power, surveillance, and the birth of the prison.
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The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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Music for 18 Musicians
Music for 18 Musicians is a minimalist album by composer Steve Reich recorded between April–December 1976 and released on the ECM New Series in April 1978—his first of three releases for the label. The ensemble features eighteen musicians, including Reich himself playing the part of piano and marimba, playing Reich'...
Anime 2010s
Your Lie in April
Kousei Arima is a child prodigy known as the "Human Metronome" for playing the piano with precision and perfection. Guided by a strict mother and rigorous training, Kousei dominates every competition he enters, earning the admiration of his musical peers and praise from audiences. When his mother suddenly passes awa...
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Film 2000s
The Pianist
A Jewish pianist survives the Warsaw Ghetto. Survival stripped of sentimentality.
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Music 1960s
Portrait in Jazz
The piano trio reimagined. Autumn Leaves and the beginning of conversational jazz.
Film 2000s
The Piano Teacher
The Piano Teacher is a 2001 film from France, Austria, and Germany, associated with Michael Haneke. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.