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Now showing — The City and the City · 5 works

  • 101 Reykjavík Film · 2000s

    A slacker in Reykjavík drifts between his mother's couch and the city's bars until a Spanish woman rearranges everything. Kormákur's breakout Icelandic comedy.

    After-hoursUrban isolationLonging
  • 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
  • Terror in Resonance Anime · 2010s

    Painted in red, the word "VON" is all that is left behind after a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility in Japan. The government is shattered by their inability to act, and the police are left frantically searching for ways to crack down the perpetrators. The public are clueless—until, six months later, a strange v...

    FolkloreIdentitySurveillance
  • The City of Lost Children Film · 1990s

    The City of Lost Children is a 1995 fantasy film directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Jeunet and Gilles Adrien, and starring Ron Perlman. An international co-production of companies from France, Germany, and Spain, the film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, Del...

    Urban isolationAfter-hoursLonging
  • The City & The City Books · 2000s

    An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.

    Urban isolationMemoryMigration
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