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Now showing — Paris Is Burning · 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
  • Paris, je t'aime Film · 2000s

    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...

    MemoryAfter-hoursLonging
  • Paris Is Burning Film · 1990s

    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.

    Urban isolationPowerAfter-hours
  • Giovanni's Room Books · 1950s

    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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  • Paris, Texas Music · 1980s

    Held here because it strengthens the visible field.

    After-hoursLonging
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