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Now showing — Portrait in Jazz · 5 works

  • Ikiru Film · 1950s

    A dying bureaucrat searches for meaning. One of cinema's most profound portraits of mortality.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Portrait in Jazz Music · 1960s

    The piano trio reimagined. Autumn Leaves and the beginning of conversational jazz.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • The Conformist Film · 1970s

    A man joins the fascist secret police to feel normal. Political compromise as psychological portrait.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • A painter and her subject fall in love on a Breton island. The female gaze defined.

    LongingAfter-hoursUrban isolation
  • The Years Books · 2000s

    A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's *The Years* is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding...

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
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