Isaach De Bankole in 'The Limits of Control.' Paint drying. Grass growing. Rush-hour traffic. All these activities would be more entertaining to watch -- and probably speedier -- than Jim Jarmusch's ...

Jim Jarmusch’s anonymous anti-hero hitman (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits of The Limits of Control as the Lone Man, exists only in terms of his unspecified mission.

Jim Jarmusch begins his film The Limits of Control, the tale of a hitman who doesn’t seem to hit, with a quote from the first two lines of Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “The Drunken Boat.” Some may see this ...

Is the beginning even the beginning? It’s a question I posed in my head about halfway through Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control, first literally and later philosophically. Structured as a series of ...

Jim Jarmusch’s anonymous antihero hitman (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits of The Limits of Control as the Lone Man, exists only in terms of his unspecified mission.

Jim Jarmusch is a model of stylistic consistency who emerged as a full-blown talent and erupts once a decade—Stranger Than Paradise in the ’80s, Dead Man in the ’90s, The Limits of Control today. An ...

Some soundtracks have a life of their own. Quentin Tarantino and Sophia Coppola tend to use playlists that stake their own territory. (I could listen to the soundtracks without having seen the films ...

Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...

The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger (Isaach De Bankolé), whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a job, yet he trusts no one, and his ...