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Now showing — One of Ours · 5 works
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A Lagos woman is told her husband has thirty days to live. Okwo's Nollywood drama — one of the first to cross over to international festivals.
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A Taipei family across three generations. One of the great humanist films of the 21st century.
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Sonatine is a 1993 Japanese yakuza film directed, written and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in the film. It won numerous awards and became one of Kitano's most successful and praised films, garnering him a sizable international fan base.
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The decline of a great Chinese family. One of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
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One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hour...
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Also in the field · 3
Open the book outward through film, television, and animated works carrying adjacent tensions.
- 30 Days Film
- Sonatine Film
- Bleak Seasons: Book One of Glittering Stone Music
- Dastgāh-e Māhur Music
Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.
- The Power of Myth Essays
- Brahma Sutras Essays