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small island music
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Jamaica Inn
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Small Star Seminar
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Les Revenants
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and migration.
Television
The Returned
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and folklore.
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Better Call Saul
2010s
A small-time lawyer becomes a criminal's lawyer. Character study as slow-burn tragedy.
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Small Island
2000s
Jamaican immigrants in postwar London. Empire's debts collected at the doorstep of the mother country.
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Still Walking
2000s
A family gathers for the anniversary of a son's death. Small cruelties and unspoken love.
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Twin Peaks
1990s
Who killed Laura Palmer? Small-town America as surrealist nightmare.
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Books 1990s
The God of Small Things
Twins in Kerala, caste, forbidden love, and the small things that destroy. Language as architecture.
Film 2000s
12:08 East of Bucharest
A small-town TV host asks whether his city actually revolted during the 1989 revolution — or just showed up after it was over. Porumboiu's deadpan debut.
Television 2010s
Les Revenants
The dead return to a small Alpine town. Not horror but atmosphere, grief, and the unfinished weight of the past.
Books 1930s
The Street of Crocodiles
This a magical book of short stories set in a small town in Poland during the period between the two World Wars. The writer, Bruno Schulz, wrote only two books in his lifetime but the two are so rich in vision that they contain a whole world. There are wonderful stories of childhood and how a child's imagination tra...
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Music 2010s
Jamaica Inn
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Film 1960s
Breathless
A small-time thief and an American journalism student in Paris. The birth of the French New Wave.