In this dispatch: Life of Jorge Luis Borges…
In his rather humbly titled “Autobiographical Notes” that appeared in the New Yorker in 1970, Jorge Luis Borges recounts the day in 1935 when, from her deathbed, his paternal grandmother Frances Haslam — “a respectable English lady” from the West Midlands — told her “Georgie” and the gathered family: “‘I am only an old woman
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At one end, a nearly perfunctory art documentary; on the other, a lively essay film on color; in between, a shambolic chronicle of a failed…
Argentine director Mariano Llinás’s La Flor is a project ten years in the making, and an ode to the sort of movies that filmmakers once…
OK, so things don’t really vanish anymore: even the most limited film release will (most likely, eventually) find its way onto some streaming service or into some…