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  • 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
  • A Clockwork Orange Film · 1970s

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

    PowerSurveillanceAfter-hours
  • A Place Further Than the Universe Anime · 2010s

    Four girls journey to Antarctica. Friendship, loss, and the courage to leave.

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • A Prophet Film · 2000s

    A young Arab man rises through the French prison system. Crime cinema as sociological study.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
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  • A Love Supreme Music
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  • A Theory of Justice Essays
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  • Show Me a Hero Television
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