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Now showing — Desert Hearts · 5 works

  • Paris, Texas Film · 1980s

    A man walks out of the desert and tries to reconnect with his family. Ry Cooder's guitar and American vastness.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Desert Flower Film · 2010s

    Desert Flower is a 2010 film from France, Germany, and Austria, associated with Sherry Hormann. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

    After-hoursMemoryLonging
  • Dune Books · 1960s

    A boy becomes the messiah of a desert planet. Ecology, religion, and the dangers of hero worship.

    NaturePowerMemory
  • Amassakoul Music · 2000s

    Tuareg desert rock. Electric guitars in the Sahara, rebellion and exile encoded in rhythm and sand.

    MigrationResistanceAfter-hours
  • Desert Hearts Film · 1980s

    Desert Hearts is a 1985 American romantic drama film directed by Donna Deitch. The screenplay, written by Natalie Cooper, is an adaptation of the 1964 lesbian novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule. Set in Reno, Nevada, in 1959, it tells the story of a university professor awaiting a divorce who finds her true self...

    PowerIdentityAfter-hours
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  • Nightwood Books
  • Desert Gold Books
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