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Now showing — To Live · 5 works

  • 7 Lives Film · 2010s

    7 Lives is a 2011 film from United Kingdom, associated with Paul Wilkins. 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
  • The Skin I Live In Film · 2010s

    The Skin I Live In is a 2011 film from Spain, associated with Pedro Almodóvar. 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
  • My Life to Live Film · 1960s

    My Life to Live is a 1962 film from France, associated with Jean-Luc Godard. 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
  • A Tale for the Time Being Books · 2010s

    In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist...

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • Gilead Books · 2000s

    **WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION** In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chain...

    IdentityPowerMemory
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  • The Year of Magical Thinking Essays
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