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Use this room when you already know the kind of cultural terrain you want to inspect. For guided orientation, open the Field Map or begin with a pathway.

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Now showing — An Old-Fashioned Girl · 5 works

  • A man reveals he's never had sex and his coworkers mount an intervention. Apatow's breakout comedy with more heart than its premise suggests.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • There Will Be Blood Film · 2000s

    An oil prospector's rise and moral collapse. American capitalism as Old Testament fury.

    PowerModernityAfter-hours
  • An Autumn Afternoon Film · 1960s

    An aging widower realizes he must let his daughter marry. Ozu's final film.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Beck Anime · 2000s

    Fourteen-year-old Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka is a dispirited young boy with no goals in life. However, this all changes when Koyuki saves a strange-looking dog named Beck from being harassed by a group of local kids. The dog's owner, 16-year-old Ryuusuke "Ray" Minami, is an emerging guitarist and the former member of a p...

    FolkloreIdentitySurveillance
  • Too Old to Die Young Television · 2010s

    Too Old to Die Young is an American crime drama miniseries directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, written by Refn, Ed Brubaker and Halley Gross, and starring Miles Teller and Augusto Aguilera. It premiered on Amazon on June 14, 2019.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
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