![]() | Sometime Anywhere by The Church
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $9.87 An album by the Church that confirms they are Borgesian readers. Loveblind is a song about a detective hired to search for a man without a face. He finally catches up to him and finds out he was looking for himself all along.
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![]() | The Mirror (with Original Mono Soundtrack) (1974)
Time and space form a visual fugue the way Bach would assemble a composition. Images play counterpoint to each other and characters play double roles to show how history and generations repeat themselves.
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![]() | Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $22.95 Time, space, and dimensions intersect to create a labyrinth as the main character enter dream states, a place Borges loved to write about.
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![]() | The Prisoner - Complete Series Megaset (40th Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $53.49 / Used from: $38.29 The Prisoner as my favorite tv series of all time. It featured man's indomitable spirit to be free as well as the allegory of man's greatest enemy. It starred the man the creator's of James Bond picked as their first choice to be 007. Many labyrinthian schemes in the Village climaxing in the moment No.6 meet No.1.
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![]() | Pan's Labyrinth
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $1.91 When I heard this movie's title, I rushed to see it. Although it was a good movie, it did not work the labyrinthian angles for a maze that has come to be associated most with Borges. The chronology game does succeed in a metaphorical labyrinth however.
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![]() | Death and the Compass
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $1.44 The short movie called "Spiderweb" by Paul Miller is included on this dvd. It is really what you want to see, as it captures what Borges's short story is. A quiet, reflective detective narrating us calmly to his end.
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![]() | Yojimbo & Sanjuro - Two Films By Akira Kurosawa - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $54.99 / Used from: $49.90 Two films that capture Kurosawa giving birth to spaghetti westerns. Borges was fascinated with Gauchos of old South America. They were mercenary cowboys and knife-wielding meanies. Toshiro Mifune embodies this.
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![]() | The Name of the Rose
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.24 Umberto Eco, whose novel this movie was based on, has written about time and labyrinths often in his bibliography. The work of Borges resonate throughout the mazes in this movie.
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![]() | The Castle
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $12.90 Kafka was an inspiration to Borges, and Kafka's The Castle is certainly brought to it's illogical absurd infinity in the masterful hands of Michael Hanneke.
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![]() | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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![]() | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $1.95 A film that is reminiscent of Borges's later years, when he has lost his vision and had to write all his poetry from memory, before dictating them to Maria Kodama. Schnabel's murals really translates well in this film. If you had one good working eye left, it should be spent on the beautiful Marie-Josee Croze or the majestic tidewater glaciers.
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![]() | La Jetee/Sans Soleil (Criterion Collection)
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $19.95 Quoted endlessly by trendmakers, La Jetee is a short black-and-white slideshow that shows circular time-travel and test the inherent paradox of chronological storytelling. Reminiscent of Borges's Circular Ruins
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![]() | The Circle
Buy used from: $41.89 Jafar Panahi's superb film about the lives of eight Tehranian women enclosed in a restrictive society. Despite the fact that the incidents of their lives are linked in a linear order, the plot swings in a wide arc and returns the the point of origin, an entire lifetime encompassed within the course of one day.
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