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Now showing — A Fine Balance · 5 works

  • A Mighty Wind Film · 2000s

    Three folk groups reunite for a memorial concert. Christopher Guest's mockumentary finds unexpected warmth inside the joke.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • Show Me a Hero Television · 2010s

    A mayor battles public housing integration in Yonkers. Policy as tragedy.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • The Bear Television · 2020s

    A fine-dining chef takes over his brother's sandwich shop. Grief, pressure, and kitchen anxiety.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • A Clockwork Orange Film · 1970s

    Ultra-violence and behavioral conditioning. Free will versus state control in a dystopian Britain.

    PowerSurveillanceAfter-hours
  • Four girls journey to Antarctica. Friendship, loss, and the courage to leave.

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
Also in the field · 3
Page to screen
Screen echoes for this book

Open the book outward through film, television, and animated works carrying adjacent tensions.

  • The Bear Television
  • Show Me a Hero Television
Listening lane
Albums in this field
  • A Love Supreme Music
  • A Seat at the Table Music
Interpretive layer
Idea lines behind this surface

Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.

  • A Room of One's Own Essays
  • A Theory of Justice Essays