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18 hours ago | 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

5 March 2009 9:29 AM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Like many an annoying cinephile film student, I watched A Lot of, and talked A Lot about guys like Jim Jarmusch during my Uni days, (his Down By Law being one of my particular favorites). Nobody plays around with genre tropes quite as skillfully but since Ghost Dog I've sort of lost touch with this fine indie director and am looking forward to getting back into the groove when The Limits of Control finally gets released.

Film is the story of a mysterious loner (played by De Bankolé), a stranger, whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a job, yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged. The film is set in the striking and varied landscapes of contemporary Spain (both urban and otherwise).

Trailer after the break.

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2 articles from 2009