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Now showing — S.O.R.O. · 5 works

  • A small-town TV host asks whether his city actually revolted during the 1989 revolution — or just showed up after it was over. Porumboiu's deadpan debut.

    Urban isolationResistanceAfter-hours
  • L’Age d’Or Film · 1930s

    L’Age d’Or is a 1930 film from France, associated with Luis Buñuel. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

    After-hoursMemoryLonging
  • The Third Man Film · 1940s

    A pulp writer arrives in postwar Vienna to find his friend dead — or so he's told. Carol Reed's noir masterwork, with Orson Welles in the shadows.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Either/Or Books

    1st published work of S. Kierkegaard (pen name Victor Eremita) in 2 volumes in 1843; outlines a theory of human existence, marked by the distinction between a hedonistic, aesthetic mode of life and the ethical life predicated upon commitment

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • Interview with the Vampire Television · 2020s

    Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, or simply Interview with the Vampire, is an American gothic horror television series developed by Rolin Jones for AMC, based on The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, named after the first book. Starring Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac and Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncour...

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
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  • The Score Music
  • Heaven or Las Vegas Music
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Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.

  • Chloé Zhao's Oscar Win: Moment or Movement? Essays
Cultural geography
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  • 12:08 East of Bucharest Film
  • Interview with the Vampire Television