Two Clips from Jarmusch's hitman pic THE LIMITS OF CONTROL

The films of Jim Jarmusch are the type of movies that epitomize the tagline around here, "Strange little films from around the world." Toying with genre conventions without ever losing site of the characters and blending cross-culture themes with a chameleon yet nevertheless recognizable style, Jarmusch has yet to make a bad film. His latest, The Limits of Control, features regular collaborating actor Isaach De Bankolé as "a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job." And for one reason or another these clips appeared exclusively on the films Facebook page earlier in the weekend.

The first clip is De Bankolé's meeting Bill Murray in a sound proof room ("I used my imagination"). The second is De Bankolé not quite following a white-wigged Tilda Swinton when she speaks Spanish references Hitchcock.

The Limits of Control is opening in a couple of the larger American cities on May 1st.

“The Limits of Control” is the story of a mysterious loner (played by Mr. De Bankole), 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. His journey, paradoxically both intently focused and dreamlike, takes him not only across Spain but also through his own consciousness.

A big thanks to John Allison over at Rowthree for the heads up.