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Now showing — City of God · 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
  • Banana Fish Anime · 2010s

    Aslan Jade Callenreese, known as Ash Lynx, was a runaway picked off the streets of New York City and raised by the infamous godfather of the mafia, Dino Golzine. Now 17 years old and the boss of his own gang, Ash begins investigating the mysterious "Banana Fish"—the same two words his older brother, Griffin, has mut...

    Urban isolationFolkloreIdentity
  • 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
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  • The City & The City Books
  • The Emerald City of Oz Books
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  • Sound of the City (Nature 2.4) Music
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  • The Practice of Everyday Life Essays

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