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Now showing — The Lonely City · 5 works
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"You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The Lonely City is a roving cultural history of urban loneliness, centered on the ultimate city: Manhattan, that teeming island of gneiss, concrete, and glass. What...
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Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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Introverted classical pianist and top student Kaoru Nishimi has just arrived in Kyushu for his first year of high school. Having constantly moved from place to place since his childhood, he abandons all hope of fitting in, preparing himself for another lonely, meaningless year. That is, until he encounters the notor...
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A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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A troubled Parisian boy's struggle against family and school. The iconic final freeze frame.
After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
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