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Young and Innocent
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The Sellout
Carries a strong pull into television through urban isolation and power.
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
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Back in Black
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Letters to a Young Poet
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Young Pope
2010s
The Young Pope is a satirical drama television series created and directed by Paolo Sorrentino for Sky Atlantic, HBO, and Canal+. The series stars Jude Law as the disruptive Pope Pius XIII and Diane Keaton as his confidante, Sister Mary, in a Vatican full of intrigues. The series was co-produced by the European prod...

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Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
2010s
An everywoman biography of structural sexism in South Korea. Quiet accumulation of indignity as a form of horror.
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Back in Black
1980s
Back in Black is a 1980 album associated with AC/DC and Angus Young and Albert Productions. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Blue Spring Ride
2010s
While most young girls make an effort to show off their feminine charms, Futaba Yoshioka deliberately behaves like she wants to repel anyone who might be attracted to her. Ostracized by her female classmates in middle school for being a little too popular with the boys, she desperately strives to avoid a similar sit...
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Letters to a Young Poet
Ten letters of advice on art, solitude, and living. The most beloved creative counsel ever written.
Television 2010s
Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska is a 2005 young adult novel by American author John Green. Based on his time at the private Indian Springs School, Green wrote the novel in order to create meaningful young adult fiction. While he drew from people and events in his life, the novel is fictional.
Books 2010s
The Sellout
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's *The Sellout* showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relatio...
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Music 2010s
Cloven Hoof
Anime 2010s
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Rumor has it that if a young girl strikes a bargain with a white fairy, it will grant any wish her heart desires. However, in exchange, she will become a magical girl and must put her life on the line to slay fearsome and ferocious witches. Iroha Tamaki, a kind-hearted middle schooler from Takarazaki City, is living...
Film 2010s
The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet
The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet is a 2013 film from Canada and France, associated with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata...