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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#26 Post by Antoine Doinel » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:43 pm

The film soundtrack includes music by SUNN O))) & Boris, Boris and Earth :shock:

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#27 Post by miless » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:04 am

woah... has Jarmusch gone stoner-metal?

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#28 Post by Oedipax » Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:36 am

miless wrote:woah... has Jarmusch gone stoner-metal?
Sleep's epic "Dopesmoker" was in Broken Flowers, too.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#29 Post by miless » Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:03 pm

Oedipax wrote:Sleep's epic "Dopesmoker" was in Broken Flowers, too.
the whole thing?

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#30 Post by Antoine Doinel » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:02 pm

Here's the badass poster.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#31 Post by AWA » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:09 pm

They had better get that website going!

Nice poster, nice trailer - looking forward to this quite a bit.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#32 Post by Antoine Doinel » Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:20 pm

The release date has been bumped forward a few weeks to May 1.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#33 Post by The Masked Marvel » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:00 am

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.
Antoine Doinel wrote:Here's the badass poster.
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.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#34 Post by miless » Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:24 pm

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.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#35 Post by Antoine Doinel » Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:28 pm

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."

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#36 Post by The Masked Marvel » Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:15 pm

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.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#37 Post by AWA » Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:15 pm

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!

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#38 Post by MoonlitKnight » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:14 pm

I'm always on board for anything Jarmusch does...and this looks to be no exception.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#39 Post by Antoine Doinel » Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:54 pm

A scathing review from Variety.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#40 Post by Doctor Sunshine » Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:39 pm

Antoine Doinel wrote:A scathing review from Variety.
I can't take them seriously when they use words like "thesp" and "protag". And "prexy" has earned them a special place in hell.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#41 Post by Matt » Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:44 pm

Doctor Sunshine wrote:
Antoine Doinel wrote:A scathing review from Variety.
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.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#42 Post by Doctor Sunshine » Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:26 pm

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.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#43 Post by kinjitsu » Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:19 pm

Not exactly what I would call complete, but here it is: Variety Slanguage Dictionary

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#44 Post by Zumpano » Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:35 pm

Rosenbaum prefers it to Broken Flowers, reacting against the Variety review.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#45 Post by rohmerin » Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:40 am

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.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#46 Post by Jeff » Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:30 pm

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.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#47 Post by Highway 61 » Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:52 pm

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.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#49 Post by AWA » Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:30 am

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.

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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

#50 Post by mikebowes » Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:39 am

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;

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