The Limits of Control News

If a filmaker gets inspired to explore language because it has become an increasingly suspicious form of communication based on the exploitation of the spoken word for purposes of distortion and mass manipulation, that doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

Agatha Christie sleuth caper Crime Is Our Business. French Film Festival , Nationwide Another cross-channel package of established talents and rising stars, including this year's hot tip A Prophet, fresh from its Best Film triumph at the London Film Festival.

The Thessaloniki Film Festival, which opens in the Greek seaport next week, announced its lineup of masterclasses, exhibitions and other sidebar events Monday.

The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival is officially over. The theaters are back to their usual routine, press conference rooms filled with boring business people, and awards have been passed out to some of the finest new-comers and veteran filmmakers in the business.

Indie distributor Revolver Entertainment has snapped U.K. rights to Heitor Dhalia's "Adrift" and Jim Jarmursh's "The Limits of Control" in double whammy deal with Focus Features.

Despite his appearance in the latest Indiana Jones film, John Hurt defies any suggestion that fame has made him cosy or complacent.

In this edition, Film Weekly visits the London film festival, now in full swing.

Jim Jarmusch, the director and writer of ''The Limits of Control,'' which opened in Japan last month, said he aims to surprise moviegoers by catering to their imaginations rather than their expectations.

The experimental film festival, which features radical Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky as jury president, will run for four days at the Pioneer and 35MM theaters.

The Festival du nouveau cinA©ma had much to give thanks for after the long weekend.

John Hurt is to be made a fellow of the British Film Institute at a new awards ceremony which will be part of this year's London Film Festival.

Rating : * * * Verdict : Ravishing but wilfully obscure. Ivory Coast native De Bankole has a face made for mystery.

LEGENDARY US director Francis Ford Coppola and Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee are the star attractions at this year's Beirut International Film Festival, which showcases films from across the globe.

At the end of "Crank," hyperactive hitman Chev Chelios appeared to be very dead, having fallen out of the sky and onto a street in Los Angeles.

We have final specs for Universal's 13 October Blu-ray Disc release of Land of the Lost .

This year's London Film Festival line-up for October 14-29 will be announced today by Artistic Director Sandra Hebron.

Caption: Gael Garcia Bernal Special New York screening of 'The Limits of Control' at Landmark's Sunshine Theater - Arrivals New York City, USA .... BERNAL: 'LEGALISE DRUGS' GAEL GARCIA BERNAL has called for the legalisation of drugs in his native Mexico - to end the country's bloody civil unrest.

The American film director Jim Jarmusch's approach to film narrative is the first question that comes to mind after viewing his new film, "The Limits of Control," which opens here at the end of the week.

Audrey Tautou in 'Coco avant Chanel'. The New Zealand International Film Festival programme provides plenty of reasons to spend a fortnight in the dark living on popcorn.

Ominously oblique. Isaach De Bankole is a man on a mission in Jarmusch's latest.