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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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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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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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The Book of Disquiet is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935). Published posthumously, The Book of Disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a "factless autobiography". The publication was credited to Bernardo Soares, one of the author's alter...
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A fresh high school year always means much to come, and one of those things is joining a club. Being in a dilemma about which club to join, Yui Hirasawa stumbles upon and applies for the Light Music Club, which she misinterprets to be about playing simple instruments, such as castanets. Unable to play an instrument,...
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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