Archive | April, 2009

The Limits of Control

04/29/2009

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Everything appears copacetic. And in Jim Jarmusch’s new film THE LIMITS OF CONTROL, he applies Rule #5 of the Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rules in filmmaking where he steals from anywhere that resonates with inspiration and fuels his imagination and then breaks the rules creating a film experience with deliberate contemplative shifting through elements of visual […]

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Tribeca’s Changing of the Guard

04/13/2009

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As Festival Director with Sundance for two decades, Geoffrey Gilmore witnessed the metamorphosis of independent film’s low budget image to studio feature film-level production value. More product not under studio control infiltrated the film markets vying for the same theatrical exhibition regions and ancillary routes. The dam burst and in the past year we witnessed […]

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Shall We Kiss?

04/06/2009

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From a woman’s point of view, it can happen. It starts out innocently enough – a chance meeting in Nantes, where Emilie (Julie Gayet) and Gabriel (Michael Cohen) are strangers who connect and become deeply, mutually attracted. They go to dinner, he drives her back to her hotel and forwardly asks for a good night […]

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