Media

A curated and non-exhaustive list of books, movies and series I loved and would recommend.

2024

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  The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds
  Selina Siak Chin Yoke book 2016
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  Pendatang
  Ken Kin movie 2023
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  Nimona
  Nick Bruno & co movie 2023
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  Mon Oncle
  Jacques Tati movie 1958
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  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch movie 2001
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  Where the mountain meets the moon
  Grace Lin book 2009
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  Ali and Nino
  Kurban Said book 1937
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  Matrix
  Lauren Groff book 2021

2023

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  Chicago
  Rob Marshall movie 2002
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  Perfect Days
  Wim Wenders movie 2023
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  The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  Wes Anderson movie 2023
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  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai movie 2000
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  Paris, Texas
  Wim Wenders movie 1984
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  Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
  Roz Chast book 2014
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  Howl's Moving Castle
  Hayao Miyazaki movie 2004
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  Cinema Paradiso
  Giuseppe Tornatore movie 1988
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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  Kemp Powers & co movie 2023
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  The Queen's Gambit
  Scott Frank & co tv series 2020
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  The Godfather
  Francis Ford Coppola movie 1972
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  Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
  Guillermo del Toro movie 2022

2022

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  Triangle of Sadness
  Ruben Östlund movie 2022
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  Reservation Dogs
  Taika Waititi & co tv series 2021
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  Everything Everywhere All At Once
  Daniel Scheinert & co movie 2022
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  Aftersun
  C & co movie 2022
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  Our flag means death
  David Jenkins tv series 2022
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  A Gentleman in Moscow
  Amor Towles book 2016
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  Stranger Things
  Matt Duffer & co tv series 2016
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  Last Night in Soho
  Edgar Wright movie 2021
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  Adieu Bohème
  Jeanne Frenkel movie 2017

prior

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  WandaVision
  Jac Schaeffer tv series 2021
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  The Power of the Dog
  Jane Campion movie 2021
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  Loki
  Michael Waldron tv series 2021
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  Dune
  Eric Roth movie 2021
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  Yotsuba&! series
  Kiyohiko Azuma book 2018
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  Years and Years
  Simon Cellan Jones & co tv series 2019
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  World of Tomorrow
  Don Hertzfeldt movie 2015
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  Wizard of Oz
  Victor Fleming movie 1939
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  Wiener-Dog
  Todd Solondz movie 2016
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  What We Do in the Shadows
  T & co movie 2014
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  WALL·E
  Andrew Stanton movie 2008
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  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  Martin McDonagh movie 2017
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  The Truman Show
  Peter Weir movie 1998
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  The Three-Body Problem trilogy
  Cixin Liu book 2008
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  The Thirteenth Tale
  Diane Setterfield book 2006
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  The Sixth Sense
  M. Night Shyamalan movie 1999
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  The Shawshank Redemption
  Frank Darabont movie 1994
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  The Prestige
  Christopher Nolan movie 2006
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  The Pianist
  Roman Polanski movie 2002
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  The Others
  Alejandro Amenábar movie 2001
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  The Omnivore's Dilemma
  Michael Pollan book 2006
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  The Night Circus
  Erin Morgenstern book 2011
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  The Murderbot Diaries
  M & co book 2017
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  The Matrix
  Lana Wachowski & co movie 1999
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  The Martian
  Andy Weir book 2011
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  The Handmaid's Tale
  Margaret Atwood book 1985
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  The Handmaiden
  Park Chan-wook movie 2016
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  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
  Mary Ann Shaffer & co book 2008
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  The Great Gatsby
  F. Scott Fitzgerald book 1920
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  The Great Escape
  John Sturges movie 1963
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  The Beach
  Alex Garland book 1996
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  The Artist
  Michel Hazanavicius movie 2011
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  Subaru series
  Masahito Soda book 2006
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  Stories of Your Life and Others
  Ted Chiang book 2010
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  Still Life
  Louise Penny book 2006
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  Spotlight
  Tom McCarthy movie 2015
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  Soul
  Pete Docter movie 2020
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  Shutter Island
  Martin Scorsese movie 2010
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  Sherlock
  Mark Gatiss tv series 2010
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  Schindler's List
  Steven Spielberg movie 1993
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  Parasite
  Bong Joon-ho movie 2019
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  Orphan black
  John Fawcett & co tv series 2013
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  Never Let Me Go
  Kazuo Ishiguro book 2005
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  Nage libre
  Sébastien Chrisostome book 2008
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  Mushi-Shi
  Hiroshi Nagahama tv series 2005
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  Moonrise Kingdom
  Wes Anderson movie 2012
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  Midsommar
  Ari Aster movie 2019
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  Métaphysique des Tubes
  Amélie Nothomb book 2002
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  Memoirs of a Geisha
  Arthur Golden book 1997
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  Memento
  Christopher Nolan movie 2000
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  Mary Poppins
  Robert Stevenson movie 1964
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  Maniac
  Cary Joji Fukunaga & co tv series 2018
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  Lord of the Flies
  William Golding book 1954
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  Life of Pi
  Ang Lee movie 2012
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  Life of Pi
  Yann Martel book 2001
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  L'échappée belle
  Anna Gavalda book 2001
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  Le Grand Méchant Renard
  Benjamin Renner book 2015
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  La Quête d'Ewilan series
  Pierre Bottero book 2006
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  La La Land
  Damien Chazelle movie 2016
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  La Horde de Contrevent
  Alain Damasio book 2007
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  Kubo and the Two Strings
  Travis Knight movie 2016
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  Kirikou and the Sorceress
  Michel Ocelot movie 1998
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  Kill Bill
  Quentin Tarantino movie 2003
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  Jumanji
  Jake Kasdan movie 2017
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  Joker
  Todd Phillips movie 2019
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  Interstellar
  Christopher Nolan movie 2014
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  Inception
  Christopher Nolan movie 2010
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  Hunt for the Wilderpeople
  Taika Waititi movie 2016
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  Hocus Pocus
  Kenny Ortega movie 1993
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  His Dark Materials series
  Philip Pullman book 1995
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  Her
  Spike Jonze movie 2013
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  Harry Potter series
  J. K. Rowling book 1998
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  Half of a Yellow Sun
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book 2006
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  Gone Girl
  Gillian Flynn book 2011
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  Get Out
  Jordan Peele movie 2017
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  Free Solo
  Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & co movie 2018
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  Freakonomics
  Steven D. Levitt & co book 2005
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  Fight Club
  David Fincher movie 1999
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  Ex Machina
  Alex Garland movie 2015
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  Do the Right Thing
  Spike Lee movie 1989
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  Django Unchained
  Quentin Tarantino movie 2012
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  Coraline
  Henry Selick movie 2009
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  Circe
  Madeline Miller book 2018
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  Chroniques birmanes
  Guy Delisle book 2009
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  Captain Fantastic
  Matt Ross movie 2016
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  Broken Earth trilogy
  N. K. Jemisin book 2015
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  Basara series
  Yumi Tamura book 2003
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  And Then There Were None
  Agatha Christie book 1939
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  Amélie
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie 2001
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  1984
  George Orwell book 1949
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  12 Angry Men
  Reginald Rose movie 1957

2020

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  Coco
  Lee Unkrich movie 2017

2003

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  Astérix & Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre
  Alain Chabat movie 2002