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Now showing — Until the Morning After Collected Poems 1963-1985 · 5 works
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A slacker in Reykjavík drifts between his mother's couch and the city's bars until a Spanish woman rearranges everything. Kormákur's breakout Icelandic comedy.
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Painted in red, the word "VON" is all that is left behind after a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility in Japan. The government is shattered by their inability to act, and the police are left frantically searching for ways to crack down the perpetrators. The public are clueless—until, six months later, a strange v...
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Station Eleven is an American post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction television miniseries created by Patrick Somerville based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Emily St. John Mandel. The miniseries premiered on HBO Max on December 16, 2021, and ran for ten episodes until January 13, 2022.
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Salaryman Rokurou Okajima spends his days trying to climb his company's corporate ladder, until one day when a business negotiation in Thailand goes awry. During the botched deal, he falls hostage to the Lagoon Company—a band of ruthless pirate mercenaries. Left to the whims of his captors after his managers refuse...
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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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Open the book outward through film, television, and animated works carrying adjacent tensions.
- Station Eleven Television
- 101 Reykjavík Film
- Guilty Until Proven Innocent Music
- Until Morning Music
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- The runway until we die Essays