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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:43 pm
by Antoine Doinel
The
film soundtrack includes music by SUNN O))) & Boris, Boris and Earth
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:04 am
by miless
woah... has Jarmusch gone stoner-metal?
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:36 am
by Oedipax
miless wrote:woah... has Jarmusch gone stoner-metal?
Sleep's epic "Dopesmoker" was in Broken Flowers, too.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:03 pm
by miless
Oedipax wrote:Sleep's epic "Dopesmoker" was in Broken Flowers, too.
the whole thing?
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:02 pm
by Antoine Doinel
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:09 pm
by AWA
They had better get that website going!
Nice poster, nice trailer - looking forward to this quite a bit.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:20 pm
by Antoine Doinel
The release date has been bumped forward a few weeks to May 1.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:00 pm
by The Masked Marvel
miless wrote:woah... has Jarmusch gone stoner-metal?
Now now... I believe the correct terminology is "drone metal." Actually, I'm a huge fan of all of the bands mentioned, but even I don't know what to call it at times... I just know that I like it.
Apparently I'm not the only one who sees the similarities between Sunn O)))'s logo and the poster's artwork...
Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O)))'s blog.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:24 pm
by miless
and Sunn 0)))'s logo
was appropriated from the famous Portland amp company (Sunn, of course), and their name can be traced back to Norman Sundholm, bass player for The Kingsmen (also from Portland) whom asked his brother to build him a bass amp with enough power to be heard.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:28 am
by Antoine Doinel
Jarmusch talks about his influences for the film in the press notes:
Press notes wrote:"What would it be like if Jacques Rivette remade John Boorman's masterpiece Point Blank? Or what if Marguerite Duras remade Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai? Michelangelo Antonioni looms large in my subconscious so he's probably there, but I wasn't thinking about him beforehand. I was obliquely thinking of Euro crime films from the 1970s and 1980s, like some of Francesco Rosi's work. These impressionistic inspirations floated through my head, in terms of finding a style rather than imitating these movies."
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:15 pm
by The Masked Marvel
miless wrote:and Sunn 0)))'s logo
was appropriated from the famous Portland amp company (Sunn, of course), and their name can be traced back to Norman Sundholm, bass player for The Kingsmen (also from Portland) whom asked his brother to build him a bass amp with enough power to be heard.
Yes indeed. The whole thing really comes from Anderson and O'Malley's love of Earth. Dylan Carlson was a big fan of Sunn amplifiers back during his act's original 1990's heyday, so it only makes sense that SunnO))) are big fans of the amps, too.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:15 pm
by AWA
Antoine Doinel wrote:Jarmusch talks about his influences for the film in the press notes:
Press notes wrote:"What would it be like if Jacques Rivette remade John Boorman's masterpiece Point Blank? Or what if Marguerite Duras remade Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai? Michelangelo Antonioni looms large in my subconscious so he's probably there, but I wasn't thinking about him beforehand. I was obliquely thinking of Euro crime films from the 1970s and 1980s, like some of Francesco Rosi's work. These impressionistic inspirations floated through my head, in terms of finding a style rather than imitating these movies."
I'd go see this film based on that paragraph alone even if it wasn't Jarmusch behind the wheel.
And he really loves himself some Le Samourai!
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:14 pm
by MoonlitKnight
I'm always on board for anything Jarmusch does...and this looks to be no exception.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:54 pm
by Antoine Doinel
A
scathing review from
Variety.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:39 pm
by Doctor Sunshine
I can't take them seriously when they use words like "thesp" and "protag". And "prexy" has earned them a special place in hell.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:44 pm
by Matt
Doctor Sunshine wrote:
I can't take them seriously when they use words like "thesp" and "protag". And "prexy" has earned them a special place in hell.
That's just the Variety house style; it's been like that for decades. I think it has a certain retro charm (like they're still a newspaper where
Walter Burns is the editor), even if they don't do headlines like
"Sticks Nix Hick Pix" anymore.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:26 am
by Doctor Sunshine
Ah, I didn't realize they'd been doing that for so long. I thought it was their version of Internet slang. Next time I read a Variety article I'll try it in an Edward G. Robinson voice and see if that doesn't win me over.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:19 am
by kinjitsu
Not exactly what I would call complete, but here it is:
Variety Slanguage Dictionary
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:35 am
by Zumpano
Rosenbaum prefers it to
Broken Flowers, reacting against the Variety review.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:40 am
by rohmerin
wow, i't set in Madrid. That 70's building is very famous.
Broken flowers, is for me one of the best films of this decade.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 4:30 pm
by Jeff
Glenn Kenny hasn't written a review yet, but he's crazy about it. He wrote a comment on Hollywood Elsewhere, saying, "The movie is so fantastic that I don't think I can stand it. Really. "
Mike D'Angelo, meanwhile, also hasn't reviewed it, but has given it a C-, and referred to it on his Twitter as "The Limits of Formal Repetition, Pretentious Allegory, Photogenic Locations and Populating Your Film With Your Cool Actor Friends."
Looks like it's going to be very divisive.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:52 pm
by Highway 61
Rosenbaum's write-up has me even more psyched. Jarmusch's films have a sense of conviction to them that is sorely missed in American movies today, and it seems that this is shaping up to be his boldest since Dead Man.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:31 am
by Jeff
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:30 am
by AWA
Jeff wrote:Looks like it's going to be very divisive.
All the more reason for excitement in my book.
Reading some of these reviews, I am quite eager to see this. I just hope it plays somewhere near me.
Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:39 pm
by mikebowes
The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA is holding a free sneak preview screening on Monday, May 4th at 7pm:
http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/ ... 90504.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
