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Tag: Immortality

Immortality is fiction’s oldest bargain, and the price is always the point. This tag collects reviews and essays on stories about living forever: vampires, elixirs, uploads, and the loneliness at the end of every version.

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The Cold Thing

Edvard has loved Marisol for four months, and tells himself the love is the larger part of him. In the gray hour before dawn he does the arithmetic one last time and finds the truth he buried under the romance:…

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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Not the thrill of immortality, not the hunt, not the gothic romance. What it offers instead is two ancient lovers, the crumbling cities they haunt, and the slow pleasure of their company.

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Byzantium (2012)

Neil Jordan returns to vampires with a feminist story of a mother and daughter surviving two centuries. The film's mythology is explicitly gendered.

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The Bishop’s Wife (1947)

An Episcopal bishop praying for help with his cathedral project receives an angel who arrives to assist, though not in the way expected. David Niven plays Bishop Henry Brougham.

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The Last Witch Hunter (2015)

2015 Breck Eisner fantasy action with Vin Diesel as an immortal witch hunter protecting modern New York from witches. The Last Witch Hunter is Breck Eisner's 2015 American fantasy action film.

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Highlander (1986)

Highlander is one of the strangest mainstream studio films of the 1980s and one of the most influential fantasy films of the decade. Clancy Brown plays the Kurgan, the giant Mongol-Russian immortal who killed Ramirez and has spent four hundred…

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