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January 16, 2009

Küstendorfed

Last week, Jim Jarmusch attended the Küstendorf film & music festival in Serbia, hosted by Emir Kusturica (see earlier post). The festival site has now been updated to include a piece about "Jim Jarmusch's Workshop" (10-01 2009), along with a photo gallery (a few of these images attached below – © Küstendorf Film and Music Festival 2009). For the whole shenanigans, visit the festival site.

                                         

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January 13, 2009

The Limits of Control - release set to May 22nd

According to a Focus Featrues press release, January 12:

"Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch's new film, The Limits of Control, is the story of a mysterious loner (Isaach 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). Joining Mr. De Bankolé in the cast for the writer/director are Hiam Abbass, Gael García Bernal, Paz De La Huerta, Alex Descas, John Hurt, Youki Kudoh, Bill Murray, Jean-François Stévenin, Tilda Swinton, and Luis Tosar. Co-financed by Focus with Entertainment Farm,The Limits of Control will be released in exclusive engagements on May 22nd."

I'm not sure what to make of "exclusive engagements", though the date coincides with the Cannes film festival (May 13-24), which has traditionally been the venue for the world premieres of Jarmusch's films.

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October 6, 2008

Küstendorf festival


"Kusturica is very busy these days with preparations for the second Kustendorf Film Festival in January 2009 ....  Special guests ... will be Diego Maradona, American director Jim Jarmusch and actress Salma Hayek, among others."

(Found here)

This could be a sign that The Limits of Control is intended to be ready for the film festival circuit by January (though, of course, Jarmusch appearing at a festival does not necessarily entail that he'll also be bringing his new film).

[Edit: A comment to this post makes clear that Jim Jarmusch – along with Oliver Stone, Laurent Cantet, Alain Delon, Takeshi Kitano and Tilda Swinton – will attend the festival in order to hold "workshops and masterclasses". See the comment for more info.]

The Küstendorf Film and Music Festival takes place in the "ethno village" Drvengrad on Mokra Gora in Serbia. The festival is headed by the Serbian filmmaker Emir Nemanja Kusturica (who also financed the construction the village itself!).

The festival site (still not updated since this year's edition) [Update December 29] The site has now been updated, and includes info on a "Retrospective of Greatness: Jim Jarmusch" program:
http://www.kustendorf-filmandmusicfestival.org/

Emir Kusturica

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August 11, 2008

It's official: Jim's an indie icon

For what it's worth:

Yesterday, at the closing ceremeny of Downbeach Film Festival in Philadelphia, Jim Jarmusch was given the inaugural DBFF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING ICON award.

(Closing night also meant the East Coast premiere of Mark Webber's "Explicit Ills", a movie for which Jarmusch has served as one of its executive producers.)

 

More info here:
http://www.downbeachfilmfestival.org/

 

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