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Now showing — The Shadow Lines · 5 works

  • The Sopranos Television · 1990s

    A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • The Wire Television · 2000s

    Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.

    PowerSurveillanceNature
  • Endtroducing..... Music · 1990s

    Built entirely from samples. The crate-digger's symphony. Trip-hop as collage art.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • 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
  • What We Do in the Shadows is a 2014 film from New Zealand, associated with Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. 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
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