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Now showing — The Old Capital · 5 works

  • 18-Year-Old Virgin Film · 2000s

    18-Year-Old Virgin is a 2009 film from United States, associated with Tamara Olson. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

    After-hoursMemoryPower
  • A man reveals he's never had sex and his coworkers mount an intervention. Apatow's breakout comedy with more heart than its premise suggests.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • Banana Fish Anime · 2010s

    Aslan Jade Callenreese, known as Ash Lynx, was a runaway picked off the streets of New York City and raised by the infamous godfather of the mafia, Dino Golzine. Now 17 years old and the boss of his own gang, Ash begins investigating the mysterious "Banana Fish"—the same two words his older brother, Griffin, has mut...

    Urban isolationFolkloreIdentity
  • 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
  • The Line of Beauty Books · 2000s

    It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby--whom Nick had idolized at Oxford--and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions...

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
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