I want to live in this movie. I want to crawl inside it and curl up in its lap and stay there forever. I’m “biast” (pro): love Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It has been so hard for me to write this review! Normally, when I fall in love with a movie, I want to run right out and tell everyone about it. And, of course, I actually do want everyone to see this movie and buy the soundtrack and preorder the DVD and then go see it again so that the movie Powers That Be get the message that we want more movies like this one, as much as we can say, “This movie that isn’t like any other movie? More movies like this that aren’t like other movies, please.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It has been so hard for me to write this review! Normally, when I fall in love with a movie, I want to run right out and tell everyone about it. And, of course, I actually do want everyone to see this movie and buy the soundtrack and preorder the DVD and then go see it again so that the movie Powers That Be get the message that we want more movies like this one, as much as we can say, “This movie that isn’t like any other movie? More movies like this that aren’t like other movies, please.
- 5/15/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
While the rest of his cohort have fallen by the wayside or been absorbed into the Hollywood system, the film-maker has stayed weird, as his new movie of erudite vampire love reveals
The word "hipster" invariably crops up in discussions about American film-maker Jim Jarmusch, not least because he looks the part. He is tall, lean, often wears shades and has a famous shock of hair that started turning silvery grey in his teens; his basso drawl completes the uncanny resemblance to a certain Hollywood great, which inspired Jarmusch to found a jokey secret society, The Sons of Lee Marvin.
Jarmusch is without a doubt the most rock'n'roll of film-makers – although he obliges you to define the term. He has worked with a lot of musicians, either as composers or as actors – Neil Young, Tom Waits, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, hip-hop producer RZA. But if you look at the breadth of Jarmusch's references,...
The word "hipster" invariably crops up in discussions about American film-maker Jim Jarmusch, not least because he looks the part. He is tall, lean, often wears shades and has a famous shock of hair that started turning silvery grey in his teens; his basso drawl completes the uncanny resemblance to a certain Hollywood great, which inspired Jarmusch to found a jokey secret society, The Sons of Lee Marvin.
Jarmusch is without a doubt the most rock'n'roll of film-makers – although he obliges you to define the term. He has worked with a lot of musicians, either as composers or as actors – Neil Young, Tom Waits, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, hip-hop producer RZA. But if you look at the breadth of Jarmusch's references,...
- 2/23/2014
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
Jim Jarmusch's vampire film puts an original spin on a well-worn genre, but there's something unavoidably studenty about its fascination with muso philosophising and retro cool
At one moment in Jim Jarmusch's new movie, Tilda Swinton's character points to the night sky and says: "There's a diamond up there the size of a planet. It emits the music of a gigantic gong." Jarmusch, on the hand, emits movies as if he has been smoking a gigantic bong. Only Lovers Left Alive is an indulgent, eccentric midnight movie with a great deal of muso musing about vinyl and guitars and cool retro stuff. If there was a prize at Cannes for Most Studenty Film, this would absolutely walk off with it. We flit with bat-like swiftness from Tangier to Detroit and back to Tangier, as the story unfolds: the deadpan-funny tale of beautiful vampire creatures, exquisite aesthetes with fastidious tastes,...
At one moment in Jim Jarmusch's new movie, Tilda Swinton's character points to the night sky and says: "There's a diamond up there the size of a planet. It emits the music of a gigantic gong." Jarmusch, on the hand, emits movies as if he has been smoking a gigantic bong. Only Lovers Left Alive is an indulgent, eccentric midnight movie with a great deal of muso musing about vinyl and guitars and cool retro stuff. If there was a prize at Cannes for Most Studenty Film, this would absolutely walk off with it. We flit with bat-like swiftness from Tangier to Detroit and back to Tangier, as the story unfolds: the deadpan-funny tale of beautiful vampire creatures, exquisite aesthetes with fastidious tastes,...
- 5/24/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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