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...have gotten a kick out of Jarmusch's languid absurdity, most of which seems intended and is for the most part pleasing. The film, which is set entirely in Spain, is visually precise and quite beautiful but deliberately vague on details like plot points and names. The lead is Lone Man, played by Jarmusch regular Isaach De Bankolé, who deserves to be called something more evocative, like "He of the Supreme Cheekbones." His first set of marching orders - he gets many - are to "go to the towers, go to the cafe and look for the violin," and his employer...
...Lone Man makes his way from Madrid to Seville and then into the countryside toward his wealthy target, American, aka the Man (Bill Murray, who starred in Jarmusch's lovely Broken Flowers), he encounters a cast of characters who trade boxes of matches with him and pass on more tidbits of instruction along with commentary on art and culture. There's Guitar (John Hurt), Mexican (Gael Garcia Bernal) and the most helpful of all, Blonde (Tilda Swinton), who is a fan of Jarmusch-style cinema. "The best films are like dreams you're never really sure...
...Lone Man greets her musing as he does most evidence of other life forms, with the blank stare of a supermodel. If you thought Jason Bourne was terse, the Lone Man makes him seem like Regis Philbin. Come to think of it, The Limits of Control is like a Bourne film, except one in which everything goes smoothly for Jason, the workdays include a lot of napping and there's no blood, although cinematographer Christopher Doyle does regularly frame our hero against sumptuous red surfaces. At the climax, when confronted with a seemingly impenetrable fortress, instead of scaling walls...
...Dirty: The lists of cleanest cities showed a bit more geographic variety, though there is a not-so-shocking abundance of Western and mountain states represented on the clean side - Portland, Maine being the lone Northeast representative on any of the clean lists. Cities like Redding, Salinas and Santa Barbara in California redeem the state's lackluster performance by falling on the lower end of a couple of the cleanest-cities charts...
...mound.Douglas, Meehan, Rogers and Stack-Babich—arguably the team’s four best hitters this season—all drove in runs in their final appearances.Jon Roberts, who served as an outfielder and pinch hitter for the Crimson during the year, made the most of his lone at-bat, going yard in the bottom of the fourth with a shot over the left-field wall.And then there was Wortzman. Game action has been scarce for the Stoughton, Mass. native, a walk-on who has spent his time on the team catching bullpen sessions and warming up pitchers...