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Now showing — City of God · 5 works
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Workers from a shuttered Chengdu factory recall decades of labor and loss. Jia Zhangke blurs documentary and fiction into an elegy for socialist modernity.
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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...
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A walking tour of coastal Suffolk becomes a meditation on decay, colonial violence, memory, and the entropy of civilization.
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We Own This City is an American crime drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. The miniseries was developed by George Pelecanos and David Simon and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. The six-episode series premiered on HBO on April 25, 2022.
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An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
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