The Limits of Control News

Jose here with the Monday Monologue. The Limits of Control might not be Jim Jarmusch 's best film but there are hints of the auteur's brilliance throughout that overcome the otherwise nonsensical, pretentious existentialism.

Universal Pictures Intl. Spain has acquired theatrical rights to Jose Luis Aleman's Spanish horror pic 'La Herencia Valdemar.' The Euros13.5 million project, produced by Madrid-based shingle La Cruzada Ent., is structured as two pics.

Neat idea, this: the ICA is running a season of films by the inscrutable and laconic American filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, alongside work that inspired or was inspired by the director.

Muslim groups in Switzerland and abroad have condemned the vote as anti-Islamic. Photo: AP The comment by a Vatican spokesman followed criticism from across Europe.

The American R&B singer, whose new single 'Russian Roulette' entered the UK charts at number six yesterday, said that all women should have the confidence to bare their flesh in front of the camera.

Recommended THE MOVIE: All conflicts involve people. Even the largest and messiest international battles, at their most basic, involve one person squaring off against another.

He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it again Simon Hattenstone Separated at birth: John Hurt as Quentin Crisp and Quentin Crisp as himself.

"Bruno" - The latest mock-documentary satire from comic provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen was mostly a misfire.

For every way in, there is another way out. The Limits of Control is a film to separate those who truly love Jim Jarmusch from those who casually admire the director.

"Star Trek" is that rare blockbuster: It delivers everything a big-budget movie should.

Zac Efron proves he's ready to graduate from high school in Richard Linklater's latest.

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.