The Limits of Control
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- Antoine Doinel
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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
The film soundtrack includes music by SUNN O))) & Boris, Boris and Earth
- miless
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woah... has Jarmusch gone stoner-metal?
- Oedipax
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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Sleep's epic "Dopesmoker" was in Broken Flowers, too.miless wrote:woah... has Jarmusch gone stoner-metal?
- miless
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the whole thing?Oedipax wrote:Sleep's epic "Dopesmoker" was in Broken Flowers, too.
- Antoine Doinel
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- AWA
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They had better get that website going!
Nice poster, nice trailer - looking forward to this quite a bit.
Nice poster, nice trailer - looking forward to this quite a bit.
- Antoine Doinel
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The release date has been bumped forward a few weeks to May 1.
- The Masked Marvel
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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.miless wrote:woah... has Jarmusch gone stoner-metal?
Apparently I'm not the only one who sees the similarities between Sunn O)))'s logo and the poster's artwork...Antoine Doinel wrote:Here's the badass poster.
Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O)))'s blog.
- miless
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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.
- Antoine Doinel
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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
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."
- The Masked Marvel
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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.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.
- AWA
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I'd go see this film based on that paragraph alone even if it wasn't Jarmusch behind the wheel.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."
And he really loves himself some Le Samourai!
- MoonlitKnight
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I'm always on board for anything Jarmusch does...and this looks to be no exception.
- Antoine Doinel
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A scathing review from Variety.
- Doctor Sunshine
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I can't take them seriously when they use words like "thesp" and "protag". And "prexy" has earned them a special place in hell.Antoine Doinel wrote:A scathing review from Variety.
- Matt
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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.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.Antoine Doinel wrote:A scathing review from Variety.
- Doctor Sunshine
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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.
- kinjitsu
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Not exactly what I would call complete, but here it is: Variety Slanguage Dictionary
- Zumpano
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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Rosenbaum prefers it to Broken Flowers, reacting against the Variety review.
- rohmerin
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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.
Broken flowers, is for me one of the best films of this decade.
- Jeff
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Re: The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
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.
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.
- Highway 61
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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.
- Jeff
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- AWA
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All the more reason for excitement in my book.Jeff wrote:Looks like it's going to be very divisive.
Reading some of these reviews, I am quite eager to see this. I just hope it plays somewhere near me.
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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;