Ebert’s “Review”. Now I’m sure I’m gonna love the movie.
Anything Chris Doyle is attached to deserves to be looked at at the very least and this is no different, it looks super-cool, can’t wait to watch.
Ebert is quite funny there.
Ebert’s review is a bit scathing, I guess, but in a nonchalant way. I was quite surprised when I saw that he gave the film half a star, since he does seem to tend to like Jim Jarmusch movies quite a bit. Oh well. I’ll just have to check it out for myself.
Savvy
Saw it for free at an advance screening at the Brattle Theater in Boston. I twas really, good….but there is a lot of stuff going on it whihc will definetly require multiple viewings. The cinematography was amazing, every shot is absolutely gorgeous.
I stopped caring about this film about 30 minutes in. I resorted to look at my fingers and listening to other viewers complain. One comment was “Oh, he’s doing this again?” That pretty much sums this film up. There’s just nothing here to grab on to and really enjoy. Sure there’s those little “clues” as to what’s going on, and I pretty much think everyone he met was an hallucination.
I feel the only person who will appreciate this film is Jim himself.
Saw it last friday here in NYC. I’m a big fan of Jarmusch because he seems to be such a humanist, his actors embody personalities which are usually marginalized in pop culture and played with a sense of spirit and joy. They’re usually people alive with intellectual curiosity ranging in topic from the mundane to death and back to trivial. His films are based around ideas rather than formulas, that’s why he has such interesting structure to his films. The ideas dictate the form. Unfortunately for me, Limits of Control, from the very inception of it’s idea is to eliminate character to a certain degree. Character’s names are things like “the American,” or “Nude.” This to me is eliminating the single thing I find most pleasurable in a Jim Jarmusch film. Ebert’s review thus gave me great pleasure. Glad I saw it, hope the next one has more character.
Buffalo
It looks good, so good, it have interesting characters