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Depp Gives Singer/Songwriter Babybird A 2010 Boost

5 hours ago | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Johnny Depp has given British hitmaker Babybird a big boost by insisting the singer/songwriter's 2010 album Ex-maniac will be the album of the year.

The movie star was asked to list his 'Essentials' for U.S. magazine Entertainment Weekly and admits he already can't live without his friend's new album.

Depp says, "He's a national treasure, if you're British. For everyone else, he's a diamond waiting to be found. Lyrically, he's black as night, brilliant and sharp as a razor."

The Pirates of the Caribbean star also listed longtime partner Vanessa Paradis' latest album, Divinidylle, among his favourites, calling it "the most beautiful soundtrack to our life en famille".

And there's also mention of his onscreen Pirates father Keith Richards' Unknown Dreams and Rum, Sodomy & The Lash by The Pogues.

Depp also namechecks Emir Kusturica's Time of The Gypsies and Underground among his favourite films, calling the Serbian filmmaker, "one of the last true auteurs". The actor is in talks to play Mexican bandit revolutionary Pancho Villa in Kusturica's next film.

Also on the star's top film list: his own Ed Wood, Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law and cult British movie Withnail & I, which he can freely quote.

He adds, "(That's) probably the funniest f**king film I've ever seen." »

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Another trite, po-faced, clever-clever Jim Jarmusch movie … still, I'll be back for more

4 December 2009 4:11 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The Limits Of Control gives us a frustrating glimpse of the conspiracy-therory thriller that the cult director will never make

We expect the work of our favourite directors to develop and expand with each new movie, not deteriorate. An artist's career should ripen before us, not rot, as seems to be happening with Jim Jarmusch.

In his latest, The Limits Of Control, Jarmusch intimates the outlines of a widespread international conspiracy – a lone contract killer stalks his target across an arid Spain – by letting us see only fragments of it. But, frankly I'd rather see the pulse-pounding, cliche-ridden thriller he scorned trying to make. As with much of his increasingly mannered "mature" work, in Control, Jarmusch peppers a trite, transcendently unenlightening and uninvolving script with the usual distracting bits of business (here, the hitman, who spends much time receiving cryptic messages in matchboxes, needs his double espresso served in two separate cups … um, »

- John Patterson

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This week's new cinema previews

4 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The Box (12A)

(Richard Kelly, 2009, Us) Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella. 116 mins

Will Kelly ever make another movie as good as Donnie Darko? There are signs here that he might, but he hasn't this time. The Twilight Zone plot – press the button on this box and you'll get $1m, but someone will die – opens up more moral/conspiracy/sci-fi elements than the film can handle. Still, too much is better than not enough, especially when it's as smoothly sinister, visually sophisticated and borderline bonkers as this.

Me And Orson Welles (12A)

(Richard Linklater, 2008, Us/UK) Zac Efron, Claire Danes. 114 mins

Efron graduates from High School backstage to Welles's 1930s theatre troupe in this sweet coming-of-age flick, holding his own against Christian McKay's rakish, bombastic Welles – even when they fall for the same girl.

Cracks (15)

(Jordan Scott, 2009, UK) Eva Green, Juno Temple. 104 mins

Set within the confines of a posh girls' boarding school, »

- Steve Rose

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DVD Review: ‘The Limits of Control’ Sinks Under Weight of Pretension

3 December 2009 2:44 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Jim Jarmusch’s latest film experiment “The Limits of Control” is another example of a once-intriguing filmmaker becoming bogged down by his own self-aware style, delivering easily the worst film of one of the most important careers in the history of independent film. Jarmusch changed indie cinema in the ’80s. Now, he doesn’t even seem interested in his own films.

DVD Rating: 1.0/5.0

The title of “The Limits of Control” is a reference to nothing that happens in the film but feels appropriate for such an overly mannered exercise in directorial power. How far can Jarmusch push the audience? How little plot will they take? What is the limit of pretension? These are the more pertinent questions to “The Limits of Control,” a film that seems designed to push audience buttons, something that I have no problem with if there’s something worthwhile in return. Nothing but frustration results »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Jim Jarmusch's "Limits Of Control" Makes DVD Debut

1 December 2009 11:25 PM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

"The Limits of Control" is currently available on DVD.

The Focus Features-made movie, released on DVD by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, is the latest from art house director Jim Jarmusch.

The story focuses on the mystifying exploits of the Lone Man (Isaach De Bankolé), a lawless renegade whose unusual mission becomes more and more chilling as his tale unfolds. The only thing that matches the strangeness of his tale is the variety of people with whom he comes into contact. Set in Spain and filmed in locations such as Madrid and Andalucía, the movie also stars John Hurt, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Gael García Bernal.

The special features for the movie include the two-part featurette "Behind Jim Jarmusch" and "Untitled Landscapes."

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Spirit Awards: The Nominees (Final)

1 December 2009 8:01 AM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »

The nominations for the 25th Anniversary Spirit Awards have been announced in Los Angeles.  Film Independent executive director Dawn Hudson welcomed attendees to the nominations this morning, touting the legacy of the awards and the early nominees, including Spike Lee, the Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch and others. “We are living in the world that they created,” she said this morning, “This years nominations reflect the same criteria that were important to … »

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2009 Stockholm Film Festival Breaks Attendance Record

30 November 2009 2:53 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Sasha Grey in The Girlfriend Experience (top); 9 by Shane Acker (middle); Mads Mikkelsen, Anna Mouglalis in Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (bottom) The 2009 edition Stockholm International Film Festival attracted the two-decade-old festival’s biggest audience ever: 130,000 moviegoers. The Stockholm festival’s 20th anniversary was celebrated with screenings on ice, and the presence of international celebrities such as Lifetime Achievement Award winner Susan Sarandon, Luc Besson, and Precious director Lee Daniels. The ten films that drew the largest crowds during the festival were mostly American-made fare: Up in the Air, starring George Clooney; Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, featuring George Clooney’s voice; Lee Daniels’ Precious, which earned Mo’Nique the festival’s best actress award; Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control; [...] »

- Edwige Andersson

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Birthday Suits, An Oscar For Ed!

28 November 2009 6:20 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Each day we're celebriting the birth of various cinematic persons. Can someone in Hollywood please give their Oscar to Ed Harris today? I mean, my god how long does he have to wait for that damn thing? The rest of today's Sagittarians are less easy to shop for. What could we give Jon Stewart, for example, that he doesn't already have?

Ed, Laura and Jon

1896 Lilia Skala, Oscar nominated actress (Lilies of the Field)

1923 Gloria Grahame, Oscar winner (The Bad the Beautiful)

933 Hope Lange, Oscar nominated actress (Peyton Place, The Young Lions, Death Wish)

1941 Laura Antonelli, Italian actress, sex symbol

1946 Joe Dante He'll always have Gremlins, such a great 80s picture.

1949 Alexander Godunov, like Baryshnikov, he was a Russian ballet star who defected to America and co-starred in movies. It didn't go quite as well. He never achieved anything close to Misha's level of fame though he made for a memorable screen presence (Witness, »

- NATHANIEL R

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“That One Time” Review – ‘The Limits of Control’ ~ Arthouse hero Jim Jarmusch’s new film

27 November 2009 4:14 PM, PST | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »

By Eric Fell for MovieSet.com ‘The Limits of Control‘ is a film in which anything that could be of interest to the viewer happens between the edits. It’s like writer-director Jim Jarmusch has told us that he’s too cool to tell a story. Some might see this disregard for the audience as abstract and ... Related Posts Wolverine, Ghost of Girlfriends Past and the Limits of Control – Behind the Scenes #30 “Ticket Stubs” Review of ‘A Serious Man’ – The Coen Brothers’ New Film The MovieSet Review of ‘Orphan’ »

- Eric Fell

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This week's film event previews

27 November 2009 4:11 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Jim Jarmusch In Context, London

With their relaxed pace, obsessions about seemingly meaningless detail and contempt for the very concept of plotting, Jarmusch's films are very much a context of their own. But on the back of his latest, The Limits Of Control, this is a good chance to see other fine Jarmusch movies such as Dead Man, Down By Law, and Stranger Than Paradise alongside films that inspired them, like Buster Keaton's The Cameraman, They Live By Night and L'Atalante, as well as kindred spirits such as Wings Of Desire and The Man Without A Past.

Ica Cinema, SW1, Fri to 23 Dec

Phelim O'Neill

Sally Potter, London

With Dennis dead and Harry taking a well-earned rest, the UK's current Potter of choice is award-winning, genre-bending director Sally. Her small but significant body of work includes 1992's critically lauded Orlando, a highly unusual and witty imagining of Virginia Woolf's classic gender-switching novel. »

- Phelim O'Neill, Andrea Hubert

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Directors We Love: Jim Jarmusch

27 November 2009 9:25 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Last week Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control came out on DVD. I loved it, and was completely baffled by the weird, negative response to it. Baffled, and a little depressed. Has Jarmusch really changed so much that his existential road trips don't work anymore? Or is it that we have grown far too lazy to enjoy them? Twenty-five years ago, Jarmusch's Stranger than Paradise -- another existential road trip -- opened, and it caused quite a stir in the fledgling "indie" world. It gained a small and passionate following, and its funky, deadpan humor tapped into something. Hardly anything happens in the film. A girl from Hungary comes to visit her cousin in New York. They spend a few aimless days together and she leaves. Later, the cousin and his friend travel to Cleveland to see her again, and the three of them decide to drive to Florida. »

- Jeffrey M. Anderson

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The Longest Night In Shanghai review

25 November 2009 1:44 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

(And another film with no Twitch review. Allow me to put that right.)

The Longest Night in Shanghai could have been a disaster. It's a formula rom-com at heart, yet another riff on Pygmalion where a glossy pan-Asian cast is headed up by two lonely beautiful people who only need one fleeting meet-cute to establish they're meant for each other. It's helmed by an arthouse director, Zhang Yibai, coming off a shaky second picture (Curiosity Kills the Cat) in which the more predictable genre elements he tried to introduce killed a great deal of the atmosphere stone dead almost before it even got started.

But it's not a disaster. It's far from a perfect film; it's too long, and its multiple plot threads vary wildly in quality, but the sumptuous production values, stellar cast and gorgeous soundtrack paper over the (very) rough spots to leave the viewer with one of the quietest, »

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The second outing of John Hurt

20 November 2009 4:11 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it again

There's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itself out. It was once compared to a komodo dragon – even his lines seemed to have lines – but today he looks peachy as a schoolboy. You've been on the Botox, haven't you? He roars with how-dare-you laughter. "Nah! Hahahaha! No. Don't say that. That would be awful. Not in a million years would I do that." He's got a point: take away the cracks and creases, and his job prospects would diminish no end. His face is one of the most distinctive in the movies. Almost as distinctive as his voice, dripping with honey and acid, often at the same time. Look, he admits, there might well be a reason for his »

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The second outing of John Hurt

20 November 2009 4:11 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it again

There's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itself out. It was once compared to a komodo dragon – even his lines seemed to have lines – but today he looks peachy as a schoolboy. You've been on the Botox, haven't you? He roars with how-dare-you laughter. "Nah! Hahahaha! No. Don't say that. That would be awful. Not in a million years would I do that." He's got a point: take away the cracks and creases, and his job prospects would diminish no end. His face is one of the most distinctive in the movies. Almost as distinctive as his voice, dripping with honey and acid, often at the same time. Look, he admits, there might well be a reason for his »

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon

20 November 2009 10:33 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Directed by Chris Weitz Are we to expect more from a feature film than from an average episode of a daytime soap? That's one of many questions to be begged not only of casual moviegoers but of even the most hardened fan of Stephenie Meyer's socially negligent Twilight series as they take in the latest installment of what's sure to be a tortuously long series. At 130 minutes, New Moon rivals Jim Jarmusch's Limits of Control for sheer uneventfulness - and even that movie had the good sense to kill off a character. Taking place some months after the first, the film opens on Bella (Kristen Stewart) dreaming creepily of her boyfriend, centenarian-by-way-of-19 vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson), courting her dead grandmother - promising a more interesting movie, wherein we delve into the creepy, dependent nature of the entire relationship. Instead, Edward and the rest »

- Simon

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DVD releases for Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

17 November 2009 3:26 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

This week’s selections are quite the assortment starting off with the stylish Franklyn (amazon, review) starring the very talented Sam Riley and Eva Green, a film I hope to catch up with sooner rather than later.

If you’re looking to stay in the otherworld, Aino Kishi’s Samurai Princess (amazon, review) which takes place in an alternate universe version of feudal Japan, could make for an interesting double bill.

Trekkies will rejoice at the release of Jj Abrams’ franchise reboot Star Trek (amazon) which not only successfully breathed new life into the floundering franchise but also introduced an entirely new generation to Kirk, Spock and my favourite, Scotty.

If blood is more your thing, I’d recommend checking out Park Chan-wook’s odd little vampire film Thirst (amazon, review) which stars Korean superstar Kang-ho Song. If you’re looking for something a little less serious, there’s Vampire »

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This Week on DVD: Star Trek, Bruno, Thirst

17 November 2009 8:59 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

With the holiday season quickly approaching, it's time for the November rush... which means we're in for a seriously packed DVD release day! When you look at the major releases, the only real blockbuster here is J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, but there are a ton of interesting indie releases and a solid line-up of Blu-ray discs as well. A pair of underperforming comedies hit stores today (Bruno and The Goods) plus Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control, Chan-wook Park's vampire drama Thirst, and the Sundance hit Humpday, not to mention the Lil' Wayne documentary The Carter. On Blu-ray, we have new anniversary editions of Fight Club and Gone with the Wind, plus three Kevin Smith flicks, Galaxy Quest, and Leon: The Professional. What's on your shopping list this week? Star Trek [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2]) Bruno [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4]) The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard [5] Thirst [6] The Limits of Control [7] Humpday [8] Franklyn [9] (DVD, »

- Sean

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Kevin Smith 3 Movie Collection Blu-ray Review - Clerks, Chasing Amy and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back

16 November 2009 9:01 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

I remember when Clerks was announced. It was a Sundance favorite and trailered along with Pulp Fiction. Having had some counter experience, and being a Star Wars nerd, Clerks looked like sweet elixir. And I went to see it opening weekend (in a double feature with Stargate), and was in the Kevin Smith. Revisiting his films Clerks, Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back on Blu-ray in the Kevin Smith collection is a chance to wrestle with what makes Kevin Smith great and somewhat terrible. My review after the jump.

Clerks is one of those films that - at the time - you wanted to root for. It was a small film from a filmmaker who scrapped together his pocket change and made a film, and the history of films like that which received a theatrical release were always encouraging. Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, etc. Now, now that »

- Andre Dellamorte

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DVD Playhouse--November 2009

14 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

DVD Playhouse—November 2009

By

Allen Gardner

Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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What to see this Christmas

13 November 2009 1:40 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Blockbusters don't come much bigger in our guide to the best films this Christmas

Me and Orson Welles

Zac Efron proves he's ready to graduate from high school in Richard Linklater's latest. He plays Richard, a callow young fellow in the 1930s, who manages to persuade no less a figure than Orson Welles to give him a small role in the legendary Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar. Released on 4 December.

Where the Wild Things Are

The famous illustrated children's book about a strange wonderland populated by marvellous, scary creatures with fur and horns has been fleshed out into a feature film by Spike Jonze, where a little boy runs away to this mythical land and installs himself as their king. Released on 11 December.

Avatar

James "Titanic" Cameron returns to mainstream movie-making, bringing us this state-of-the-art spectacular. Sam Worthington plays Jake, a disabled former combat soldier who is recreated »

- Peter Bradshaw

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