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Now showing — A Very Long Engagement · 5 works

  • A Love Supreme Music · 1960s

    A four-part spiritual suite. Jazz as prayer, devotion, and transcendence.

    RitualLongingFolklore
  • Show Me a Hero Television · 2010s

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

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • 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
  • To Kill a Mockingbird Books · 1960s

    A lawyer defends a Black man in Depression-era Alabama. Justice through a child's eyes.

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • A Clockwork Orange Film · 1970s

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

    PowerSurveillanceAfter-hours
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