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Now showing — Given · 5 works

  • Any Given Sunday Film

    1999 film by Oliver Stone

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Frances Ha Film · 2010s

    Frances Ha is a 2012 American comedy drama film directed by Noah Baumbach. It is written by Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, who also stars as Frances, a struggling 27-year-old dancer. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2012, and was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on...

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • Given Anime · 2010s

    Tightly clutching his Gibson guitar, Mafuyu Satou steps out of his dark apartment to begin another day of his high school life. While taking a nap in a quiet spot on the gymnasium staircase, he has a chance encounter with fellow student Ritsuka Uenoyama, who berates him for letting his guitar's strings rust and brea...

    Urban isolationFolkloreIdentity
  • Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons Television · 2010s

    Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons is a 2016 television series from United States, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure.

    PowerNatureSurveillance
  • Written on the Body Books · 1990s

    The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.

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