A Lincoln Center poll surveying film critics about Jim Jarmusch’s best films, solicited on the occasion of the retrospective “Permanent Vacation: The Films of Jim Jarmusch.” I wrote primarily about The Limits of Control, which will screen on 35mm at Lincoln Center on April 6 and April 9 along with Jarmusch’s music video for The Raconteurs’ “Steady As She Goes.” Film Society of Lincoln Center Blog, April 2.
One of the inspirations for The Limits of Control’s central character of “The Lone Man” was undoubtedly the character of Walker played by one of Jim Jarmusch’s favorite actors, Lee Marvin, in John Boorman’s film Point Blank. Like Marvin in that film, the Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé cuts a cool, distant figure whose aloofness from his surroundings generates both mystery and comedy.
Isaach De Bankolé will attend the Lincoln Center screening of The Limits of Control on April 6. In addition to his four films with Jarmusch (which additionally include Night on Earth, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and Coffee and Cigarettes), the actor is well-known for the trio of films that he has made with Jarmusch’s former assistant director, Claire Denis - Chocolat, No Fear, No Die, and White Material.
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