José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night is a monument of vulgarity and erudition, perfused by an eerie air of alluring, unsettling ambiguity. An intensely oneiric work, it was originally published in 1970 and is now being released in a new unabridged translation by Megan McDowell for New Directions that constitutes a major literary event.
Donoso’s novel attempts to give decisive language to the ineffable. It’s the progeny of Borges, its language as technically adroit and stunning as Gabriel García Márquez’s. But instead of lovely, tragic lyricism, Donoso spins wicked sentences, suggesting a corruption of Marquez’s romanticism.
The Obscene Bird of Night is defined by its unexpected swoops into surrealism and litany of exciting developments and imagery. The ridiculous isn’t rendered believable, as Donoso’s prose is governed by the logic of a realm that exists only in the mind of our ever-ruminating, ever-rambling, and quite unreliable narrator,...
Donoso’s novel attempts to give decisive language to the ineffable. It’s the progeny of Borges, its language as technically adroit and stunning as Gabriel García Márquez’s. But instead of lovely, tragic lyricism, Donoso spins wicked sentences, suggesting a corruption of Marquez’s romanticism.
The Obscene Bird of Night is defined by its unexpected swoops into surrealism and litany of exciting developments and imagery. The ridiculous isn’t rendered believable, as Donoso’s prose is governed by the logic of a realm that exists only in the mind of our ever-ruminating, ever-rambling, and quite unreliable narrator,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Greg Cwik
- Slant Magazine
Exclusive: Only Murders in the Building is expanding its recurring cast with Desmin Borges (You’re The Worst), Siena Werber (Brand New Cherry Flavor) and newcomer Lilian Rebelo (Our Dear Drug Lord).
They join stars/executive producers Steve Martin, who also co-created the hit Hulu series, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as well as new recurring players Zach Galifianakis, Molly Shannon, Eva Longoria and Eugene Levy and returning Meryl Streep in the upcoming fourth season.
All new characters will be integral to the twists and turns of the investigation into the murder of Sazz Pataki (Jane Lynch), Charles-Haden Savage’s (Martin) stunt double from his years on the series Brazzos and its 2020 revival.
Disney Television Group President Craig Erwich revealed in a recent Deadline interview that the Only Murders In the Building trio, Charles, Oliver (Short) and Mabel (Gomez), will kick off the new season with a trip to Los Angeles...
They join stars/executive producers Steve Martin, who also co-created the hit Hulu series, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as well as new recurring players Zach Galifianakis, Molly Shannon, Eva Longoria and Eugene Levy and returning Meryl Streep in the upcoming fourth season.
All new characters will be integral to the twists and turns of the investigation into the murder of Sazz Pataki (Jane Lynch), Charles-Haden Savage’s (Martin) stunt double from his years on the series Brazzos and its 2020 revival.
Disney Television Group President Craig Erwich revealed in a recent Deadline interview that the Only Murders In the Building trio, Charles, Oliver (Short) and Mabel (Gomez), will kick off the new season with a trip to Los Angeles...
- 4/5/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Set within the confines of a juice factory in Thailand, Tulapop Saenjaroen films the eponymous fruit’s journey through its many stages from tree to bottle, bestowing it with a strangely horrific appearance, its pulpy, fleshy, gloopy shape looking increasingly grotesque.
It hints a little at what lies ahead, but until that mid-point turn, the film is compellingly, playfully wayward, a documentary-leaning piece so sincere you might not entirely believe it to be a fictional construction until the credits roll. Following factory worker Earth, who returns to the area to reunite with his sister Ink, as told by a narrator who makes pointed references to Borges, the film wanders from factory goings-on to sudden, disturbingly graphic declarations of violence, and Ink’s desires to disappear in a fashion that recalls Han Kang’s The Vegetarian.
It could easily be wacky, but the film’s firm tonal balance of deadpan sincerity.
It hints a little at what lies ahead, but until that mid-point turn, the film is compellingly, playfully wayward, a documentary-leaning piece so sincere you might not entirely believe it to be a fictional construction until the credits roll. Following factory worker Earth, who returns to the area to reunite with his sister Ink, as told by a narrator who makes pointed references to Borges, the film wanders from factory goings-on to sudden, disturbingly graphic declarations of violence, and Ink’s desires to disappear in a fashion that recalls Han Kang’s The Vegetarian.
It could easily be wacky, but the film’s firm tonal balance of deadpan sincerity.
- 11/6/2023
- by Sunil Chauhan
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Fitness influencer Larissa Borges died on Wednesday after suffering a double cardiac arrest. The Brazilian social media star was 33 years old.
“The pain of losing someone so young… and so kind is overwhelming,” her family wrote in a statement. “Our hearts are broken, and the longing we will feel is indescribable.”
According to officials, Borges entered a coma before suffering a second cardiac arrest. Deputy Gustavo Barcellos said, “There is a report of possible ingestion of narcotic substances accumulated with alcoholic beverages.”
Barcellos confirmed that Borges’ body had been sent for an autopsy. The cause of death will hopefully be uncovered in the coming days.
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“May her soul rest in peace and may her memory always be remembered with affection and gratitude,” Borges’ family continued. “We ask everyone to wait for information about the burial, which will be announced shortly.”...
“The pain of losing someone so young… and so kind is overwhelming,” her family wrote in a statement. “Our hearts are broken, and the longing we will feel is indescribable.”
According to officials, Borges entered a coma before suffering a second cardiac arrest. Deputy Gustavo Barcellos said, “There is a report of possible ingestion of narcotic substances accumulated with alcoholic beverages.”
Barcellos confirmed that Borges’ body had been sent for an autopsy. The cause of death will hopefully be uncovered in the coming days.
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“May her soul rest in peace and may her memory always be remembered with affection and gratitude,” Borges’ family continued. “We ask everyone to wait for information about the burial, which will be announced shortly.”...
- 9/1/2023
- by Ava Lombardi
- Uinterview
Jack Draper returned to the Atp Tour at the Winston-Salem Open , and he won his first match since May on the Tour.
Draper actually made a return last week at the Winnipeg challenger , winning a few matches but failing to go all the way. He lost to Arthur Cazaux, a player who made the final at the event but lost to Ryan Peniston. It wasn't an ideal return for Draper, but he won a couple of matches and got some playing time.
That was good enough to get him ready for this event. The draw was relatively fair, giving him a player who is not known for his hard court prowess even though he's a solid player. The other problem for Nuno Borges was the fact that he himself missed a lot of action due to injuries.
It was clear that Borges needed playing time, especially in the second set...
Draper actually made a return last week at the Winnipeg challenger , winning a few matches but failing to go all the way. He lost to Arthur Cazaux, a player who made the final at the event but lost to Ryan Peniston. It wasn't an ideal return for Draper, but he won a couple of matches and got some playing time.
That was good enough to get him ready for this event. The draw was relatively fair, giving him a player who is not known for his hard court prowess even though he's a solid player. The other problem for Nuno Borges was the fact that he himself missed a lot of action due to injuries.
It was clear that Borges needed playing time, especially in the second set...
- 8/21/2023
- Tennis Infinity
Guwahati, Aug 8 (Ians) Top Indian Super League (Isl) club Fc Goa began their Durand Cup 2023 group stage campaign on a rousing note on Tuesday, beating Shillong Lajong Fc 6-0 at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium here.
Rowllin Borges, Victor Rodriguez and Carlos Martinez scored a goal each on their debut for the Men in Orange, while Noah Sadaoui picked up from where he left off last season by notching a hat-trick.
Assistant coach Benito Montalvo led the Gaurs’ charge on Tuesday, in the absence of head coach Manolo Marquez who is serving a red-card suspension from the last season.
The Argentinian tactician handed Sandesh Jhingan, Odei Onaindia and Rowllin Borges their first starts for the Club, while Carlos Martinez, Victor Rodriguez and Raynier Fernandes also made their debuts in the second half.
It took Fc Goa just 15 minutes after kick-off to break the deadlock. Brandon found Devendra Murgaokar in the six-yard box with a free-kick,...
Rowllin Borges, Victor Rodriguez and Carlos Martinez scored a goal each on their debut for the Men in Orange, while Noah Sadaoui picked up from where he left off last season by notching a hat-trick.
Assistant coach Benito Montalvo led the Gaurs’ charge on Tuesday, in the absence of head coach Manolo Marquez who is serving a red-card suspension from the last season.
The Argentinian tactician handed Sandesh Jhingan, Odei Onaindia and Rowllin Borges their first starts for the Club, while Carlos Martinez, Victor Rodriguez and Raynier Fernandes also made their debuts in the second half.
It took Fc Goa just 15 minutes after kick-off to break the deadlock. Brandon found Devendra Murgaokar in the six-yard box with a free-kick,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
New Delhi, June 12 (Ians) Indian international midfielder Rowllin Borges has joined Fc Goa on loan from Mumbai City Fc, the two clubs announced.
The 31-year-old, who is currently with the Indian national team competing in the Intercontinental Cup is set to add more firepower to the Fc Goa midfield and will look to revitalise his career under Manolo Marquez.
He returns to his home state after having won the Indian Super League (Isl) once, the League Winners’ Shield twice in the last three years and with 33 Indian national caps to his name at the time of writing.
“I always felt that I would play for Fc Goa one day – like it was my destiny. Something or the other, though, wasn’t aligned for me to play for my home club, but finally, it has come true. I am very happy,” said Borges, after he had signed on the dotted lines.
The 31-year-old, who is currently with the Indian national team competing in the Intercontinental Cup is set to add more firepower to the Fc Goa midfield and will look to revitalise his career under Manolo Marquez.
He returns to his home state after having won the Indian Super League (Isl) once, the League Winners’ Shield twice in the last three years and with 33 Indian national caps to his name at the time of writing.
“I always felt that I would play for Fc Goa one day – like it was my destiny. Something or the other, though, wasn’t aligned for me to play for my home club, but finally, it has come true. I am very happy,” said Borges, after he had signed on the dotted lines.
- 6/12/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Bhubaneswar, June 5 (Ians) Rowlin Borges, who scored his first-ever international goal for the senior men’s national team in the 2015 Saff Championship in Thiruvananthapuram, is back in national camp after a two-year hiatus and is now looking for more success with the team.
India had found itself a goal down after just three minutes against Nepal in the 2015 Saff Championship. With the hosts’ attack not being able to do the needful in the first half, 23-year-old Rowllin Borges emerged as the unlikely hero, rifling a loose ball in the area straight into the roof of the net, bringing India level.
As he gears up for the Indian team’s next assignment in the Intercontinental Cup, Borges is reminded of that day when he started the turnaround for India.
“It was an amazing, amazing feeling,” says Borges, reminiscing that night in a chat with Aiff. “It’s one of the memories...
India had found itself a goal down after just three minutes against Nepal in the 2015 Saff Championship. With the hosts’ attack not being able to do the needful in the first half, 23-year-old Rowllin Borges emerged as the unlikely hero, rifling a loose ball in the area straight into the roof of the net, bringing India level.
As he gears up for the Indian team’s next assignment in the Intercontinental Cup, Borges is reminded of that day when he started the turnaround for India.
“It was an amazing, amazing feeling,” says Borges, reminiscing that night in a chat with Aiff. “It’s one of the memories...
- 6/5/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
There are movies that grab you by the throat and refuse to let go until the story ends. And there are others that playfully take your hand, guiding you into stories that blossom and fold in on themselves several times over, leading to endings that are more like beginnings.
For the past five years, a crop of films from Argentina has been specializing in the latter type, telling long, winding, labyrinthine stories inspired by the French Nouvelle Vague — especially Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating and his serial epic, Out 1 — as well as Latin American postmodernists like Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar and Roberto Bolaño.
With mammoth running times and multiple characters, Mariano Llinás’ six-part, 13-hour La Flor (2018) and Laura Citarella’s two-part, six-hour Trenque Lauquen (2022), are the best-known examples of the genre. Enigmatic and absorbing, they have found a fanbase at festivals and on specialty streaming sites,...
For the past five years, a crop of films from Argentina has been specializing in the latter type, telling long, winding, labyrinthine stories inspired by the French Nouvelle Vague — especially Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating and his serial epic, Out 1 — as well as Latin American postmodernists like Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar and Roberto Bolaño.
With mammoth running times and multiple characters, Mariano Llinás’ six-part, 13-hour La Flor (2018) and Laura Citarella’s two-part, six-hour Trenque Lauquen (2022), are the best-known examples of the genre. Enigmatic and absorbing, they have found a fanbase at festivals and on specialty streaming sites,...
- 5/18/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stefanos Tsitsipas has faced both Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz on the courts and he certainly sees some similarities between them.
Spanish tennis has been dominated by Rafael Nadal for many years but as age starts to become a factor, younger generations are taking over. Chiefly among them is Carlos Alcaraz who actually replaced Nadal as the youngest ever in several categories. He also replaced him as champion in Barcelona last year, a campaign which saw him best Tsitsipas along the way.
He definitely offers a lot to our sport. And when he's around, you can feel his presence and his energy and how hard he works for every point. And his spirit, the spirit that he puts out on the court is an example.
Tsitsipas on Nadal
This will be the second year in a row Nadal misses Barcelona as he last played in 2021 when he won the trophy...
Spanish tennis has been dominated by Rafael Nadal for many years but as age starts to become a factor, younger generations are taking over. Chiefly among them is Carlos Alcaraz who actually replaced Nadal as the youngest ever in several categories. He also replaced him as champion in Barcelona last year, a campaign which saw him best Tsitsipas along the way.
He definitely offers a lot to our sport. And when he's around, you can feel his presence and his energy and how hard he works for every point. And his spirit, the spirit that he puts out on the court is an example.
Tsitsipas on Nadal
This will be the second year in a row Nadal misses Barcelona as he last played in 2021 when he won the trophy...
- 4/19/2023
- Tennis Infinity
Carlos Alcaraz has another difficult title defence ahead of him but he started very well at the 2023 Barcelona Open.
Last year, the young Spaniard lifted the trophy at this prestigious Atp 500 tournament and he will try to benefit from the withdrawal of Rafael Nadal once more, to defend his title. Previously, Alcaraz withdrew from the 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters but he was back to his best in Barcelona.
In the first round, the 19-year-old took on Nuno Borges from Portugal. The world no. 79 dealt with Ilya Ivashka in the first round, but Alcaraz proved to be too good for Borges in their first H2H meeting on the Atp Tour.
Alcaraz came out firing in the first set. After one hold of serve from the Portuguese player, the world no. 2 was lethal on the return, converting both break points that he had and securing 5-1 lead in the opening set.
But Borges...
Last year, the young Spaniard lifted the trophy at this prestigious Atp 500 tournament and he will try to benefit from the withdrawal of Rafael Nadal once more, to defend his title. Previously, Alcaraz withdrew from the 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters but he was back to his best in Barcelona.
In the first round, the 19-year-old took on Nuno Borges from Portugal. The world no. 79 dealt with Ilya Ivashka in the first round, but Alcaraz proved to be too good for Borges in their first H2H meeting on the Atp Tour.
Alcaraz came out firing in the first set. After one hold of serve from the Portuguese player, the world no. 2 was lethal on the return, converting both break points that he had and securing 5-1 lead in the opening set.
But Borges...
- 4/18/2023
- Tennis Infinity
For fans of “Weekend,” “Before Sunrise” and other regret-tinged romances about what-might-have-beens and what-were-nots, “Of an Age” just might be the devastating cinematic kick you need — and a reason to rue the one who’ll never get away.
Its director, Goran Stolevski, made a modest splash at Sundance and in theaters last year with his directorial debut, the witchy, body-jumping folk horror tale “You Might Be Alone” for Focus Features. He reteams with the prestige distributor for “Of an Age,” which finds the director switching up genres but still laying down a throughline: The sexy Aussie-set gay romance is about bodies, after all, and the way they bend toward time and desire.
“All my films could really be called ‘You Won’t Be Alone,’” the Macedonian-born, Australian-based filmmaker told IndieWire over a recent Zoom interview. “It’s just that I’ve already used that title.” The out-gay director is charmingly self-effacing.
Its director, Goran Stolevski, made a modest splash at Sundance and in theaters last year with his directorial debut, the witchy, body-jumping folk horror tale “You Might Be Alone” for Focus Features. He reteams with the prestige distributor for “Of an Age,” which finds the director switching up genres but still laying down a throughline: The sexy Aussie-set gay romance is about bodies, after all, and the way they bend toward time and desire.
“All my films could really be called ‘You Won’t Be Alone,’” the Macedonian-born, Australian-based filmmaker told IndieWire over a recent Zoom interview. “It’s just that I’ve already used that title.” The out-gay director is charmingly self-effacing.
- 2/17/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The simple yet effective title “Of an Age” plays a few tricks with its double entendre; the peppy romance about a young queer man’s first brush with love captures a certain glowing youthful nostalgia. But it’s also a story split across two decades, essentially bifurcated in two recent but now solidly bygone eras. The film opens in 1999, though the boxy cars harken even further back, and ends in 2010, performing some impressive movie magic to make the actors look age-appropriate. That the entire thing is set in Melbourne, Australia, adds another layer of distance to the whole affair, coating it in a kind of dewy faraway melodrama.
While “Of an Age” leans a little heavily toward sentimentality at times, a sharp wit and a few wild shifts in tone keep things afloat. It’s As writer/director on his second feature, the Macedonian-born, Austalian-raised filmmaker Goran Stolevski firmly plants...
While “Of an Age” leans a little heavily toward sentimentality at times, a sharp wit and a few wild shifts in tone keep things afloat. It’s As writer/director on his second feature, the Macedonian-born, Austalian-raised filmmaker Goran Stolevski firmly plants...
- 2/15/2023
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Focus Features was behind such memorable gay movies as Brokeback Mountain and Milk. They keep their tradition alive with a new Australian film from director Goran Stolevski. Of an Age will not match those landmark films in terms of either box office or awards glory, but it could touch audiences that seek it out. In the tradition of an earlier gay indie movie, Weekend, which unfolded over the course of just a couple of days, this new picture proves that economy can be a virtue.
The film opens strikingly with a young woman, Ebony (newcomer Hattie Hook), waking up on a beach outside Melbourne as waves crash over her. The time is 1999, so she has to find a pay phone to call for help. She reaches Kolya (Elias Anton), a fellow teenager who was supposed to compete with her in a dance contest that morning. He is dressed in a...
The film opens strikingly with a young woman, Ebony (newcomer Hattie Hook), waking up on a beach outside Melbourne as waves crash over her. The time is 1999, so she has to find a pay phone to call for help. She reaches Kolya (Elias Anton), a fellow teenager who was supposed to compete with her in a dance contest that morning. He is dressed in a...
- 2/7/2023
- by Stephen Farber
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In “On Exactitude in Science,” a 1946 short story from the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, a fictional 17th century chronicler describes a guild of cartographers who make ever-bigger maps until, eventually, they create a “Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it.” As tastes change, later generations declare the map “Useless” and leave the great work to wither in the desert sun, where “Animals and Beggars” live within the map’s “Tattered Ruins.” The brief tale manages to probe the nature of inquiry and spoof the history of empire, quite a feat for a piece that’s only a paragraph long.
Watching the films of Alejandro González Iñárritu, the multi-Oscar-winning writer-director behind The Revenant, Birdman, and Babel, can feel like watching both Borges and the cartographers work at the same time. He’s a man who often seems to...
Watching the films of Alejandro González Iñárritu, the multi-Oscar-winning writer-director behind The Revenant, Birdman, and Babel, can feel like watching both Borges and the cartographers work at the same time. He’s a man who often seems to...
- 12/20/2022
- by Josh Marcus
- The Independent - Film
Laura Paredes in Trenque Lauquen.Fittingly for a film tracking a botanist along her quest for an ultra-rare flower, Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen unfurls like the network of a rose, each of its myriad tales unveiling and spilling into the next. Stretched across 250 minutes, split into twelve chapters, and divided into two parts, the film is a maze of forking paths, the cinematic equivalent of a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, who hovers above it as an essential touchstone. This is, after all, a Pampero Cine production, the Buenos Aires collective that spawned Mariano Llinás’s 2018 epic La Flor, another sprawling multi-genre pastiche that looked to the rhizomatic writings by Borges and other Río de la Plata scribes for inspiration. Back in 1969, together with director Hugo Santiago and fellow writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, Borges co-wrote Invasión, a portrait of a fictional city, Aquileia, under an endless siege. Modeled on Buenos Aires,...
- 10/10/2022
- MUBI
Exclusive: Lana Condor (To All the Boys films), Desmin Borges (The Time Traveler’s Wife) and Callan Mulvey (The Gray Man) have signed on to star alongside Chase Stokes in Monarch Media’s thriller Valiant One, which goes into production in Vancouver this month.
The first feature directed by Monarch’s Steve Barnett watches as a U.S. helicopter crashes on the North Korean side of the Dmz. With tensions between the North and South already on the verge of war, the surviving U.S. Army non-combat tech soldiers must work together to protect a civilian tech specialist and find their way across the Dmz, without the possibility of U.S. military support.
Condor will play Selby, a hard-as-nails and highly capable but very inexperienced Medic Specialist who joined the U.S. military after becoming a citizen to give back to her new homeland. Borges is set for the role of Josh Weaver,...
The first feature directed by Monarch’s Steve Barnett watches as a U.S. helicopter crashes on the North Korean side of the Dmz. With tensions between the North and South already on the verge of war, the surviving U.S. Army non-combat tech soldiers must work together to protect a civilian tech specialist and find their way across the Dmz, without the possibility of U.S. military support.
Condor will play Selby, a hard-as-nails and highly capable but very inexperienced Medic Specialist who joined the U.S. military after becoming a citizen to give back to her new homeland. Borges is set for the role of Josh Weaver,...
- 9/19/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Ainhoa Rodríguez's Destello bravío is showing exclusively on Mubi in most countries starting September 14, 2022, in the series Debuts.I approached the development of Destello bravío by going back to my origins, working from the place where I come from and where my paternal family comes from, the region of Tierra de Barros in Extremadura. I went to live in a small town in the area for nine months to be part of the community and do my field work and build the script from meetings, castings, rehearsals, and locations, with a cast of natural actresses that could have been my grandmothers, aunts, or cousins. And that activity that mixes film creation with the ointments of authorial roots is done instinctively, in a search that is full of enigmas. We do not know why that territory, that journey, those people, that orography or that idiosyncrasy makes so much sense to us,...
- 9/13/2022
- MUBI
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