"Death and the Compass" (original Spanish title: "La muerte y la brújula") is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)...
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Death and the Compass is a 1996 American thriller film written and directed by Alex Cox, based on Jorge Luis Borges' 1942 short story of the same name...
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directed by National Film and Television School graduate Paul Miller. It is a fairly faithful adaptation of "Death and the Compass", a 1942 short story by...
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Alex Cox (category English expatriate male actors in the United States)
Luis Borges story of his choice for the BBC. He chose Death and the Compass. Despite being a British production and an English language film, he convinced...
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Peter Boyle (category Deaths from multiple myeloma in the United States)
he starred in Alex Cox's Death and the Compass, an adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' La Muerte y la Brujula. However, the film was not released until...
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Miguel Sandoval (category Hispanic and Latino American male actors)
and Blow. Having appeared briefly in Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, Sandoval has also played the major roles of Treviranus (in Death and the Compass),...
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Ray Bradbury bibliography (redirect from The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics)
(1989) Death and the Compass/The Playground (cassette) (1989) The Toynbee Convector (cassette) (1989) Death and The Compass and The Playground – with Jorge...
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the Memorious" (1942) "The Form of the Sword" (1942) "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" (1944) "Death and the Compass" (1942) "The Secret Miracle" (1943)...
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Winner, Death and the Compass, and Three Businessmen. They also worked on the music for the 1998 David Schwimmer film Since You've Been Gone, the 1998 film...
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Christopher Eccleston (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
2013, Eccleston portrayed the villainous Malekith in Thor: The Dark World, the sequel to Thor and the eighth instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe...
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the Rose: labyrinths, mirrors, sects, and obscure manuscripts and books. The ending also owes a debt to Borges's short story "Death and the Compass"...
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Elias Lönnrot (category 1884 deaths)
alluding to the Finnish author, for the diligent detective in his story Death and the Compass (La muerte y la brújula). The main belt asteroid 2243 Lönnrot...
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"The Shape of the Sword" "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" "Death and the Compass" "The Secret Miracle" "Three Versions of Judas" "The Sect of the Phoenix"...
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Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (category 2011 deaths)
de luna (1992) Death and the Compass (1992) as Blot Los Años de Greta (1992) as Gustavo Extraños caminos (1993) Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight...
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Jorge Luis Borges (redirect from Borges the European)
especially pronounced in the book Six Problems for don Isidoro Parodi (co-authored with Bioy Casares) and Death and the Compass. Borges wrote that he considered...
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history, the Black Death had far-reaching population, economic, and cultural impacts. It was the beginning of the second plague pandemic. The plague created...
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Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez (category Columbia University School of the Arts alumni)
director Alex Cox, El Patrullero in 1991 and Death and the Compass in 1996. She also received a nomination for the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress...
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Dupin in "Death and the Compass", by calling his main detective character Erik Lönrott an "Auguste Dupin"-type detective. This is one of the stories published...
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1941 (redirect from Deaths in 1941)
deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million each. Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix...
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(1990) The Death Collector (1976) Death and the Compass (1996) Death of a Corrupt Man (1977) Death of a Cyclist (1955) Death Defying Acts (2007) Death from...
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Northern Lights (Pullman novel) (redirect from The Golden Compass)
Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995...
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Dan Wool (section Film and Television)
with Cox on nine films, including Straight to Hell (1987), Death and the Compass (1996), and Tombstone-Rashomon (2017). He was a principal member of Pray...
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List of years in literature (redirect from Literature in the 1970s)
Luis Borges' Death and the Compass; Julio Cortázar's Bestiario; J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye; Graham Greene's The End of the Affair; Marguerite...
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Compass Group plc is a British multinational contract foodservice company headquartered in Chertsey, England. It is the largest contract foodservice company...
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Bruno Bichir (section Cinema of the United States)
Diómedes Death and the Compass (1992) as "drug addict II" Lucky Break (1992) as Vicente Under Fire (1983) as a boy at Jazy's house Sicario: Day of the Soldado...
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His Dark Materials (redirect from The Golden Compasses)
(1995; published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two...
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"No Compass" is the seventh episode of the American thriller drama television series Yellowjackets. The episode was written by Katherine Kearns, and directed...
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two days and received generally positive reviews from contemporary critics and authors. The story explores themes of death, redemption, and the nature of...
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adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' short story "La Muerte y La Brujula" ("Death and the Compass") on Radio Free Oz. In 1969, they created improvised television...
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Johann Leusden (category 1699 deaths)
(The Death and the Compass).: 256 L. Fuks and R.G. Fuks-Mansfeld, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands, 1585-1815. Historical Evaluation and Descriptive...
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