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Now showing — The Shop on Main Street · 5 works

  • The Shop on Main Street Film · 1960s

    The Shop on Main Street is a 1965 film from Czechoslovakia, associated with Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

    Urban isolationAfter-hoursMemory
  • The Bear Television · 2020s

    A fine-dining chef takes over his brother's sandwich shop. Grief, pressure, and kitchen anxiety.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • The Wire Television · 2000s

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

    PowerSurveillanceNature
  • The Sopranos Television · 1990s

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

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc Film · 1920s

    Joan's trial in extreme close-up. The human face as the landscape of silent cinema.

    NatureAfter-hoursLonging
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  • The Souls of Black Folk Essays
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