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life's ladder
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and urban isolation.
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Songs in the Key of Life
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and after-hours.
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Natsume's Book of Friends
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and identity.
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Kino's Journey
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and identity.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Corner
2000s
The Corner is a 2000 HBO drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997) by David Simon and Ed Burns, and adapted for television by David Simon and David Mills. It premiered on HBO in the United States on April 16, 2000, and concluded its s...
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To Live
1990s
One man's life through the upheavals of modern China. Civil war, famine, the Cultural Revolution — endurance as the only story.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1960s
The concept album that changed everything. A Day in the Life and the studio as instrument.
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Kino's Journey
2000s
After running away from the grim future that awaited her back in her home country, a young girl takes upon a new name and identity—inspired by the man who sacrificed his life to help her escape. Alongside her newfound companion, a talking motorcycle, the two find themselves a new home in the forest—where lives an el...
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Film 1990s
Life is Beautiful
Life is Beautiful is a 1997 film from Italy, associated with Roberto Benigni. 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
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...
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Music 1970s
Songs in the Key of Life
Wonder's magnum opus. Sir Duke, Isn't She Lovely, and the most joyous double album ever made.
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Anime 2000s
Millennium Actress
An actress's life merges with her films. Memory, cinema, and the pursuit of a lost love.
Film 2000s
Life Is a Miracle
Life Is a Miracle is a 2004 film from Serbia, France, and Serbia and Montenegro, associated with Emir Kusturica. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata...
Books 1990s
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. It is a fictional re-telling of Jesus Christ's life, depicting him as a flawed, humanised character with passions and doubts. The novel proved controversial, especially to representatives of the Roman Catholic Church, with the Va...