The Art of the Infinite Yaw: Inside Mariano Llinás’ Monumental "The Life of Jorge Luis Borges"
To call a film "boring" is often dismissed by critics as a failure of imagination—a lazy shorthand for cinema that refuses to cater to the frantic pacing of contemporary blockbusters. Yet, in the case of Mariano Llinás’ latest magnum opus, The…
The Labyrinth and the Highlands: Marc Turtletaub’s ‘Borges and Me’ Reimagines a Literary Legend
The intersection of myth and memory has always been the playground of Jorge Luis Borges, the blind Argentine titan of 20th-century literature. It is fitting, then, that a film based on an extraordinary—and perhaps slightly embellished—episode from his…