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Now showing — City of Glass · 5 works

  • 24 City Film · 2000s

    Workers from a shuttered Chengdu factory recall decades of labor and loss. Jia Zhangke blurs documentary and fiction into an elegy for socialist modernity.

    Urban isolationMemoryModernity
  • The City of Lost Children Film · 1990s

    The City of Lost Children is a 1995 fantasy film directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Jeunet and Gilles Adrien, and starring Ron Perlman. An international co-production of companies from France, Germany, and Spain, the film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, Del...

    Urban isolationAfter-hoursLonging
  • City of Glass Books · 1980s

    City of Glass may refer to:

    Urban isolationMemoryMigration
  • High Maintenance Television · 2010s

    High Maintenance is an American anthology comedy-drama television and web series created by ex-husband and wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld. The show follows The Guy, a cannabis courier, as he delivers his product to clients in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Each episode focuses on different charac...

    PowerUrban isolationSurveillance
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities Books · 1980s

    The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate jour...

    PowerUrban isolationMemory
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