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Hard on the heels of Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox comes Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are ; another hipster director taking on another beloved children's book.

Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control is your Christmas treat if you are adversarial, independent-minded or possibly mad.

Jim Jarmusch sets his latest enigma in Madrid, Seville and Almeria. Existentialist mystery ensues... Jim Jarmusch has been writing and directing intriguing, highly accomplished independent movies for a quarter of a century now and occasionally acting in those of fellow independents.

FEELING like a James Bond film re-written by Eric Cantona, The Limits Of Control has enigmatic characters meeting in elegant settings, offering cryptic comments to an inscrutable assassin who always orders two espressos in separate cups.

Restaurants David Sexton You have to admire a restaurant that makes its signature dish mince and boiled potatoes Dean Street Townhouse London, The Limits Of Control Cert: 15 Derek Malcolm's rating Description: A hired killer known only as the Lone Man meets two contacts at the airport, who provide him with the first link in a chain of clues to his ...

In this edition, Film Weekly twirls from discussing Jim Jarmusch films with John Hurt to stomping with the monsters in Spike Jonze 's Where the Wild Things Are and does a dance of joy for the newly restored The Red Shoes .

Underground auteur Jim Jarmusch practically invented the term independent filmmaker.

Jose here with the Monday Monologue. The Limits of Control might not be Jim Jarmusch 's best film but there are hints of the auteur's brilliance throughout that overcome the otherwise nonsensical, pretentious existentialism.

Universal Pictures Intl. Spain has acquired theatrical rights to Jose Luis Aleman's Spanish horror pic 'La Herencia Valdemar.' The Euros13.5 million project, produced by Madrid-based shingle La Cruzada Ent., is structured as two pics.

Neat idea, this: the ICA is running a season of films by the inscrutable and laconic American filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, alongside work that inspired or was inspired by the director.

Muslim groups in Switzerland and abroad have condemned the vote as anti-Islamic. Photo: AP The comment by a Vatican spokesman followed criticism from across Europe.

The American R&B singer, whose new single 'Russian Roulette' entered the UK charts at number six yesterday, said that all women should have the confidence to bare their flesh in front of the camera.

Recommended THE MOVIE: All conflicts involve people. Even the largest and messiest international battles, at their most basic, involve one person squaring off against another.

He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it again Simon Hattenstone Separated at birth: John Hurt as Quentin Crisp and Quentin Crisp as himself.

"Bruno" - The latest mock-documentary satire from comic provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen was mostly a misfire.

For every way in, there is another way out. The Limits of Control is a film to separate those who truly love Jim Jarmusch from those who casually admire the director.

"Star Trek" is that rare blockbuster: It delivers everything a big-budget movie should.

Zac Efron proves he's ready to graduate from high school in Richard Linklater's latest.

If a filmaker gets inspired to explore language because it has become an increasingly suspicious form of communication based on the exploitation of the spoken word for purposes of distortion and mass manipulation, that doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

Agatha Christie sleuth caper Crime Is Our Business. French Film Festival , Nationwide Another cross-channel package of established talents and rising stars, including this year's hot tip A Prophet, fresh from its Best Film triumph at the London Film Festival.