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Now showing — Paris Is Burning · 5 works
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A man walks out of the desert and tries to reconnect with his family. Ry Cooder's guitar and American vastness.
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Paris, je t'aime is a 2006 film from France, Germany, and Switzerland, associated with Olivier Assayas, Isabel Coixet, Bruno Podalydès, and Gurinder Chadha. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view wi...
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Paris Is Burning is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay and transgender communities involved in it.
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Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.
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