I'm a big fan of Jim Jarmusch. Always have been. If you ask me there are few films finer than Ghost Dog, featuring Forest Whittaker in the unlikely role of a modern day samurai. Besides that I've also dug his classic Night on Earth, and the strangely entertaining gabfest Coffee and Cigarettes. I was NOT a fan of his Broken Flowers, however, featuring a boring performance by Bill Murray. I'm starting to worry that maybe Jarmusch is getting....I dunno, maybe too artsy for his own good. He's focusing less on plot and structure and making films that feel sorta ethereal, I guess is the word. They all feel sorta light and airy.
I'm hoping that won't be the case with his latest, The Limits of Control, about a mysterious loner on an assignment which takes him through Spain, where he runs into an assortment of odd characters. The film stars frequent Jarmusch collaborator Isaach De Bankole, Bill Murray, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Tilda Swinton. It's due to release in May, on a very limited basis I'm sure.
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