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The River
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The Magic Place
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Endless River
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Green Ray
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 books through longing and memory.
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Television · Strong bridge
My So-Called Life
1990s
My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. It aired on ABC from August 25, 1994, to January 26, 1995. Set at the fictional Liberty High School in a fictional suburb near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called Three Rivers, i...
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Books · Strong bridge
A River Sutra
1990s
Interlocking stories along the Narmada River. Ascetics, lovers, musicians, and the current that carries them all.
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The Green Ray
1980s
The Green Ray, released in North America as Summer, is a 1986 French romantic drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer. It is the fifth instalment in Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" series. The film was inspired by the novel of the same name by Jules Verne. It was shot in France on 16 mm film and much of the...
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Heart of Darkness
1890s
A journey up the Congo River to find Kurtz. Colonialism's moral abyss in 100 pages.
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The Endless River
The Endless River is a 2014 album associated with Pink Floyd and Parlophone. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
Film 1990s
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...
Books 1910s
Riders of the Purple Sage
Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1912 book by Zane Grey, linked to United States and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
Music 2010s
The Magic Place
The Magic Place is the debut studio album by ambient artist Julianna Barwick. The album was released on February 21, 2011, by Asthmatic Kitty Records. It peaked at number 4 on the Billboard New Age Albums chart.
Film 1990s
My Own Private Idaho
My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 American independent adventure drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V. The story follows two friends, Mike Waters and Scott Favor, played by River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, respectively, as...
Books 2000s
Gilead
**WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION** In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chain...