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14 Links (I Started and Couldn't Stop)
13 July 2009 8:18 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news
Gawker Harry Potter pr strategy: well behaved role model stars
TransGriot excerpts from Kerry Washington interviews. She's on the circuit for her transsexual role in Life is Hot in Cracktown.
SLatIFR 'The Kings of Cinematic Schlong' ...and yes Ewan McGregor is accounted for
Cinematical a certain heiress is being sued for not promoting a movie that paid her a cool million. Serves the filmmakers right, really. Roles in movies are meant to be played by actresses.
Old Hollywood a classic quippy moment with Shelley Winters, also known as Shirley
JoBlo first still for Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Playlist is tired of Henry Cavill missing out on every A-List role he's been considered for (The Green Lantern being the latest). They have a point. He does look like this...
I Need My Fix yet another product endorsement for Scarlett Johansson. You know, I wouldn't be at all surprised if she retires
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NATHANIEL R
Nikola Tesla’s Musical Legacy
10 July 2009 8:40 AM, PDT | From MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news
This morning, Wake-Up Video tipped its hat to the swearing in of Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States who took office on this day in 1850. But there’s another historical note today that bears mentioning: Today is Nikola Tesla’s birthday. Since his death in 1943, Tesla has gained the reputation as being a woefully underrated contributor to the world of science. His experiments with conducting alternating electrical current were the most important in the history of energy, but even though Tesla’s AC ultimately beat out rival Thomas Edison’s DC, Edison’s offensives against Tesla left him as a historical footnote for decades.
But Tesla also had a great effect on music — and not just because he created technology that made wireless transmission (like radio waves) possible. A handful of musicians have gained inspiration from Tesla’s reputation as a genius, a troublemaker and an underdog.
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Kyle Anderson
Johnnie To’s Vengeance to open Hk’s Summer Iff
10 July 2009 5:42 AM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news
It has just been announced that Johnnie To’s latest crime thriller will be making its Hong Kong debut on August 5th as the opening film of the 2009 Summer International Film Festival.
Other highlights include Marc Webb’s (500) Days of Summer, Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control, Sam Mendes’ Away We Go and a trio of fantastic-looking Japanese flicks in a category entitled The Hippest and the Cultest: Miki Satoshi’s Instant Swamp, Fish Story director Nakamura Yoshihiro’s superbly titled The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker and…oh yes…Nishimura Yoshihiro & Tomomatsu Naoyuki’s Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl.
Consider me very happy - and fully booked from 8/5 - 9/7!
The press release is below:
James Marsh
Keanu Reeves Becoming a Chef? + Werner Herzog's Food Show
8 July 2009 9:45 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
We already learned that Keanu Reeves is ready to tap into his foodie side for David Fincher's Chef, but could this culinary fan take it a step further? Contact Music reports that Reeves has become enamored with Herve This and his book Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavour. The actor said: "I'm dabbling in it and looking at becoming a chef. He is fantastic. I didn't really cook before but this book may be changing my life." Jesus... Talk about jumping right in. For those unfamiliar, molecular gastronomy is cooking by means of science -- not exactly the ease of a fried egg.
I can't help but wonder if this is all just part of his prep for Chef, and if it is, that makes me a bit more interested in the whole production. The thought of Reeves taking on a food-loving comedy was hurting my foodie heart,
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Monika Bartyzel
Johnny Depp Gets Lewd For ‘Lone Ranger’ Role as Tonto
29 June 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news
Remember those end credits in “Grumpy Old Men” that had Burgess Meredith reciting a hilarious laundry list of sexual double-entendres? Well, now I have a new favorite perverse phrase – thanks to the biggest movie star in the world.
As we all remember, Johnny Depp was announced not too long ago as the star of a “Lone Ranger” movie – but instead of playing the man in the mask, he was set to play the Ranger’s Kemo Sabe. So naturally, when I spoke to Depp recently at the premiere of his new film “Public Enemies,” I had to get a status report. My question came out thusly: “So, are you workin’ on your Tonto?”
“That sounds lewd,” he said with a grin. “Am I workin’ on my Tonto?”
Depp’s fans are well-aware of his fondness for infantile humor, and one of his co-stars in “Enemies” told me that between takes in a death scene,
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Larry Carroll
Pell James--The Hollywood Interview
25 June 2009 10:23 AM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news
Actress Pell James
Pell James Takes A Hot Rod To The Dark Side In Surveillance
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Virginia native Pell James hit the ground running following graduation from Nyu’s drama school in 1999, mixing TV and stage work, then landing her first high-profile part in 2005’s The King, co-starring with Gael Garcia Bernal and William Hurt. Since then, James also made impressive turns in Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers and David Fincher’s Zodiac, in one of the film’s most unsettling scenes, as one of the notorious Bay area killer’s victims.
Pell James shines in an entirely new light as Bobbi, a drug-addicted drifter who comes face-to-face with evil incarnate in Jennifer Lynch’s Surveillance, a smashingly original thriller hitting theaters June 26 from Magnet Releasing. She also appears in Shrink, a tableaux-like satire of life in L.A., starring Kevin Spacey, which arrives from Lions Gate on
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Away We Go Review
19 June 2009 11:47 PM, PDT | From FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news
Away We Go Directed by: Sam Mendes Written by: Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida Starring: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Allison Janney, Jim Gaffigan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Schneider It's been a full decade now since directors like Wes Anderson and Alexander Payne first laid down the template for the "new" indie dramedy, creating a collection of aesthetic and thematic elements that have since been rehashed so many times that they've basically become a genre unto themselves. The ingredients are all too familiar: dysfunctional families and/or weird relationships mixed with dry or dark humour, fashionable yet quirky characters and a soundtrack by The Kinks. If it sounds like I'm being a bit cynical, it's because I am, but I must admit that I still have a soft spot for these kinds of films and I enjoy seeing someone put a new spin on the formula whenever possible.
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Sean
How The Los Angeles Lakers Are Just Like The Wu-Tang Clan
17 June 2009 12:06 PM, PDT | From MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news
Having dispatched the Orlando Magic in five games, the Los Angeles Lakers are the 2009 NBA Champions. Kobe Bryant finally won without the help of Shaquille O’Neal (just like Jay-z hoped he would), and the team will be celebrating with a parade in Los Angeles this afternoon. All through the playoffs, it was a familiar-looking Lakers team, and not because they resembled any of the past championship clubs. Rather, they looked and played a lot like the Wu-Tang Clan. Don’t believe me? Check this out:
» Kobe Bryant is RZA: The most talented and controlling member of the team (and also the richest). Are they both a little bit crazy? Sure. Doesn’t it just make us love them more? Definitely. Plus, both Kobe and RZA are friendly with gritty New York City film directors (Kobe & Spike Lee, RZA & Jim Jarmusch).
» Phil Jackson is Gza: The wise sage
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Kyle Anderson
Episode 122 - Limits of Control
1 June 2009 11:37 PM, PDT | From SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news
When you think of the American directors who embodied the independent-film wave of the 1980s, Jim Jarmusch stands alone in many respects. Peers like Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh and Gus Van Sant have successfully moved back and forth between the mainstream and independent approach, where others like Alex Cox have dropped off the film industry's radar, while Jarmusch simply kept on doing what he started out doing. He probably could have taken advantage of the modest success of his road movie "Stranger Than Paradise" and the equally critically praised prison-break comedy "Down by Law" by taking work in Hollywood blending his ideas into more studio scripts, but instead Jarmusch sticked to the idiosyncratic style he became known for. Jarmusch is our post-punk hipster generation's answer to Woody Allen. He makes the movies he wants on the schedule he wants, with little regard for current fashion or commercial viability and although
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Ricky
Jim Jarmusch
31 May 2009 4:00 PM, PDT | From Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news
Glenn O’Brien: So The Limits of Control really surprised me. I was even more surprised to learn that you went into production without a script—just notes, right? It seemed so perfectly -plotted out, in a way, almost like a Hitchcock film, I guess because there’s a lot of reverberation. You were playing with repetition.
Jim Jarmusch: Yeah. We wanted to use variations, so we were building it as we went along. We really had a highly tuned antenna to be open to things. We knew we were building on things that repeat and vary, but we didn’t have all of them—some of them we found along the way. It’s lucky to be able to make a film like that these days, you know?
O’Brien: Had you spent a lot of time in Spain?
Jarmusch: I had off and on. I’d been
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By Glenn O'Brien Photography Vinoodh Matadin, Inez Van Lamsweerde
Tfca Presents The Limits Of Control
28 May 2009 2:41 AM, PDT | From HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news
Friday, May 29, Toronto's Yorkville-based Cumberland Cinemas will host the inaugural edition of Tfca Presents, a new series presented in partnership with the Toronto Film Critics Association. Tfca President Brian D. Johnson, film critic for Maclean.s magazine and Eye Weekly newspaper critic Adam Nayman will present/discuss director Jim Jarmusch.s newest feature The Limits of Control, now entering its second week of theatrical release. The critics will introduce the film, followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. The new film screening series, expected to run once a month, was devised to afford Tfca members a new platform to discuss local releases, "...giving audiences the chance to put faces to the bylines of film critics they read every week and to add their own voices to the fray..." The Cumberland's commitment to screening the best of international and art-house cinema made it a natural partner for the Tfca, which
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Review: Limits of Control
22 May 2009 1:13 AM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news
Plot: A mysterious assassin (Isaach De Bankolé) wanders through Spain, while preparing for his next assignment. Review: Jim Jarmusch is nothing if not pretentious. That.s not to say he.s a bad director- far from it. At his best, he.s able to put together some fine work (Broken Flowers, Ghost Dog, Dead Man), and even at his worst, his films are never anything less than intriguing. The Limits Of Control is not one of Jarmusch.s better films. It.s first and foremost an exercise in...
Chris Bumbray
Salute Your Shorts: Eros
21 May 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | From Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.
Discussing Coffee and Cigarettes two weeks ago, we took a look at Jim Jarmusch’s construction of a feature made out of shorts and how it's largely akin to the construction of a well-made book of short stories. His collection really is the exception that proves the rule, though, with its tightly constructed formalism and interplay between the works—not to mention finally showing us what happens when Iggy Pop meets up with Tom Waits.
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Sydney Film Festival Gets Wooed
19 May 2009 2:34 PM, PDT | From Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news
Hong Kong action maestro John Woo will appear at this year's Sydney Film Festival to present his latest epic, Red Cliff, which has its Australian premiere on June 9. The festival will also feature an appearance by Teri Hatcher, who voices a character in Henry Selick's 3D stop-motion animation, Coraline. Films premiering at the festival include the latest from Ken Loach, Jim Jarmusch, Steven Soderbergh and Catherine Breillat.
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The Limits of Control
15 May 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news
Limits of Control
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Isaach De Bankolé, Paz de la Huerta, Gael García Bernal, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray
Running Time: 1 hr 55 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Plot:This story is of a mysterious loner (De Bankolé), who works outside of the law, this time in Spain. He takes care of problems for people, without talking too much.
Who’s It For?Are you the world’s biggest Jarmusch fan? That’s it, that’s the list of people who should see this, unless you also like to test your patience.
Expectations:i liked Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes. I was let down by the ending of Broken Flowers. So I was suspicious heading into this film. But hey, when you throw in Bernal, Swinton and Murray, how bad could it be? Cough. Cough.
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Actors:
Isaach De Bankolé as Lone Man: He wants two espresso’s,
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Jeff Bayer
Movie Review - 'The Limits of Control'
15 May 2009 1:06 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
The Limits of Control
Starring Isaach De Bankolé, Tilda Swinton, and Paz de la Huerta
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Rated R
The Limits of Control is, more than anything, appropriately named. It will test nearly anyone's impulse to get up and walk out. To say the latest film from Jim Jarmusch methodical is to misdiagnose what he's doing, because methodical implies that there is some method at work.
Jarmusch will never be mistaken for Michael Bay; his movies are idiosyncratic, small, and ocassionally maddening. However, I have seen and enjoyed some of them in the past. That's a luxury, because Jarmusch isn't primarily interested in creating an entertainment, and it seems in this case to have never entered his mind.
The Limits of Control details a man on a job (Isaach De Bankolé). What he is up to eventually becomes plain, but we suspect all along that it's not, say,
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Colin Boyd
Indie Roundup: 'Heaven,' 'Open Road,' AFI Fest for Free
13 May 2009 5:45 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
The key players from the indie film world will be gathered together in Cannes for the next 10 days. Look for our daily roundups of news each night, titled "Cannes in 60 Seconds." But first, what's been happening during the past week?
Deals. Oliver Hirschbiegel's drama Five Minutes of Heaven, starring Liam Neeson, has been acquired by IFC Films, according to indieWIRE. IFC will release the film, which "explores aspects of Northern Ireland's 'Troubles,'" simultaneously in theaters and VOD in August. Michael Meredith's drama The Open Road has been picked up by Anchor Bay, again per indieWIRE. Justin (Motherlover) Timberlake stars as a man who tries to effect a reconciliation between his dying mother (Mary Steenburgen) and his estranged father (Jeff Bridges). Release plans have not yet been announced. I Love You Phillip Morris, a gay con man prison romance, has secured distribution via the fledgling Consolidated Pictures Group,
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Peter Martin
Rt Interview: Tilda Swinton on Julia
10 May 2009 6:05 PM, PDT | From Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news
One of the most diverse and celebrated talents of her generation, the directors on Tilda Swinton's CV represent a veritable who's who of independent cinema and include David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Cameron Crowe, the Coen Brothers and Jim Jarmusch. Few who've seen Sally Potter's adaptation of Orlando, with Swinton in the title role, will forget the power of her performance, a power she brings to every role she tackles, from Constantine to Burn After Reading. Her supporting role in Michael Clayton earned her an Oscar, but her performance in Julia, out now on DVD, went largely unnoticed despite its impact...
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[Movie Review] The Limits of Control
8 May 2009 9:13 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
When we first meet The Limits of Control’s mysterious protagonist, played with cool mystique by Jim Jarmusch regular Isaach De Bankolé, he is in a bathroom stall practicing tai chi. Slipping into his sharp monochrome suit, he meets two equally mysterious men at an airport who give him cryptic messages.
Named only in the credits as “Lone Man,” he travels from place to place, waits in hotel rooms, orders two espressos he insists on being served in two separate cups, and exchange pertinent matchboxes with various secret contacts, each of them offering more cryptic conversations. The way Jarmusch acquaints us with the Lone Man is deceptively clever. He doesn’t bother with introduction or information, only behavior. It’s the most effective way of describing a character. When Lone Man orders the same drink each time, we know he is particular. When he carefully folds his suit in his hotel rooms,
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Arya Ponto
Salute Your Shorts: Coffee and Cigarettes
7 May 2009 12:45 PM, PDT | From Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.
Writing about Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes in this space is cheating a little bit, since its 11 shorts do comprise a full-length feature. But it’s an nontraditional feature, to say the least, and it would be wrong to say that the shorts do something as simple as linking together to create an overarching plot or positing different ways of looking at a character or situation. Other features, such as Pulp Fiction and Run, Lola, Run, do that, and despite their divisions, these films are still unified. The segments that make up Coffee and Cigarettes work instead as a series, more akin to something like the Cremaster Cycle than episodic features.
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